In Norwegian spring-spawning herring the common intercept of the back-calculating formula, as estimated by linear regression of the fish-scale relationship, grosssly overestimated the back-calculated length frequencie ...

Scanning electron micrographs of halibut eggs which were shown to have an epiflora dominated by a Flexibacter sp., revealed wounds colonized by large amounts of bacteria. The chorion was penetrated in most wounds, and ...

Profiles from the euphotic zone at the end of July in the Greenland Sea showed that bacterial production rates were highest in surface Arctic domain water, and generally lower in locations from the warmer North Atlantic ...

Balanced harvest has been proposed to reduce fishing impact on ecosystems while simultaneously maintaining or even increasing fishery yield. The concept has attracted broad interest, but also received criticisms. In this ...

We investigated the spatial associations between minke Balaenoptera acutorostrata, fin B. physalus and humpback Megaptera novaeangliae whales and their prey in the Barents Sea in late summer of 2003 to 2007. During these ...

The Baltic Sea is a shallow, semi-enclosed brackish sea suffering like many other coastal seas from eutrophication caused by human impact. Hence, nutrient load abatement strategies are intensively discussed. With the help ...