The costs of habitat utilization of wild, farmed, and domesticated juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 2302-2313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva C Enders ◽  
Daniel Boisclair ◽  
André G Roy
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Wild Fish ◽  
Farmed Fish ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Juvenile Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Generation Progeny ◽  
High Turbulence ◽  
Wild Progenitors

We compared morphometry and total swimming costs of wild, farmed (first-generation hatchery progeny of wild progenitors) and domesticated (seventh-generation progeny of the Norwegian aquaculture strain) juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Respirometry experiments were performed to assess total swimming costs of fish ranging in size from 4.0 to 16.1 g wet mass at a water temperature of 15 °C. Fish were subjected to flow conditions of low and high turbulence. Total swimming costs increased significantly with intensity of turbulence and were, on average, 1.4 times higher at high than at low turbulence. Total swimming costs were 2.4- to 4.0-fold higher than predicted by forced swimming models developed under conditions that minimize flow heterogeneity. Total swimming costs of wild and farmed fish were not statistically different (average difference = 6.7%). Hence, swimming costs models developed using farmed fish may be used to estimate swimming costs of wild fish. However, domesticated fish had total swimming costs 12.0% to 29.2% higher than farmed or wild fish. This may be related to domesticated fish having deeper bodies and smaller fins.

Condition and performance of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): effects of rearing practices on hatchery fish and comparison with wild fish

1998 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1208-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
D G McDonald ◽  
C L Milligan ◽  
W J McFarlane ◽  
S Croke ◽  
S Currie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Swimming Performance ◽  
Anaerobic Capacity ◽  
Wild Fish ◽  
Normal Density ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Juvenile Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Limited Effectiveness ◽  
And Performance

This study examined the effects of various modifications of rearing practices on hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fingerlings and compared condition and performance of hatchery fingerlings (age 0+) and yearlings (age 1+) with those of wild-reared Atlantic salmon. Reduced fish density (and increased ration) in rearing tanks promoted increased growth and condition factor and significant changes in muscle composition, including increased muscle lipid content and glycolytic enzyme activity, specfically phosphofructokinase and lactate dehydrogenase. However, these changes had no effect on anaerobic capacity. Moreover, swimming performance was poorer in fingerlings reared at low compared with normal density. Raising the water velocity from 0 to 4 cm ·s-1 (~0.7 body length ·s-1) had overall beneficial effects, most notably increased endurance in fixed velocity sprint tests and a reduction of ion loss in an epinephrine challenge test. Increasing velocity to 9 cm ·s-1 had no further effects. Wild fingerlings were larger with better fin quality and superior anaerobic capacity and swim performance. Even larger differences were seen between hatchery-reared and wild yearlings. It is concluded that significant changes in morphology, physiology, and muscle biochemistry of juvenile Atlantic salmon can be brought about by changing hatchery rearing conditions, but these changes are of limited effectiveness in reducing the difference between hatchery-reared and wild fish.

Greater Dispersal of Wild Compared with Hatchery-Reared Juvenile Atlantic Salmon Released in Streams

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1867-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip E. K. Symons
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Release Site ◽  
Wild Fish ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Juvenile Atlantic Salmon

When wild juvenile (parr) Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) caught by electrofishing, and an equal number of hatchery-reared parr, matched for size with the wild ones, were released at three sites in unfamiliar streams containing resident parr, more hatchery-reared than wild parr could be observed by skin-diving in the areas 1 and 2 weeks later.Observed mortalities of wild parr were not sufficiently higher than those of hatchery parr to explain this result. Nor could a higher proportion of wild parr be found hiding compared with hatchery parr when one release site was electrofished a week after the release. Wild parr were found in greater numbers at points farther from one of the release sites than were hatchery-reared parr, and also more wild fish passed through a salmon counting fence approximately 100 m from a fourth release site than did hatchery-reared parr.This greater dispersal of wild parr from the release site compared with hatchery parr has important consequences to estimates of comparative survival between the two stocks.

scholarly journals Sulphated glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans in the developing vertebral column of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 1029-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten O. Hannesson ◽  
Elisabeth Ytteborg ◽  
Harald Takle ◽  
Grethe Enersen ◽  
Grete Bæverfjord ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Vertebral Column ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Juvenile Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Sulphated Glycosaminoglycans

Effect of time of day, time of year, and life history strategy on time budgeting in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 2397-2403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sveinn K Valdimarsson ◽  
Neil B Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Life History Strategy ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Life History Strategies ◽  
Foraging Efficiency ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Juvenile Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Time Of Year

Traditionally, behavioural studies on juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, have been conducted during the day in summer. It is known that Atlantic salmon become nocturnal in winter, but very little is known about their behaviour at that time. Therefore, observations in a seminatural stream were carried out during the day and night, from February to June, comparing diel and seasonal differences in behaviour between fish adopting alternative life history strategies. The results showed a general trend for more activity in spring than in winter, and the fish were found to be foraging at surprisingly low light levels. There were differences in relative feeding rate between the life history strategies; the early migrant fish foraged mostly during the day whereas the delayed migrant fish did more foraging at night. There is some evidence that the early migrant fish made fewer feeding attempts over the winter, which is surprising, since they grow faster over that period. This suggests differences in foraging efficiency, which could contribute to the separation into these two life history strategies.

Thermal performance of juvenile Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L.

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 701-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. JONSSON ◽  
T. FORSETH ◽  
A. J. JENSEN ◽  
T. F. NAESJE
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Juvenile Atlantic Salmon
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