• Long-term investigation of the ‘soft flesh’ condition in Northeast Atlantic mackerel induced by the myxosporean parasite Kudoa thyrsites (Cnidaria, Myxozoa): Temporal trends and new molecular epidemiological observations 

  Giulietti, Lucilla; Karlsbakk, Egil Erlingsson; Cipriani, Paolo; Bao Dominguez, Miguel; Storesund, Julia Endresen; Marathe, Nachiket; Levsen, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Northeast Atlantic (NEA) mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scombridae) represents an economically important target for the Norwegian pelagic fishing industry. Despite the commercial significance of NEA mackerel, little is known ...

• Salmon lice in the Pacific Ocean show evidence of evolved resistance to parasiticide treatment 

  Godwin, Sean C.; Bateman, Andrew W.; Kuparinen, Anna; Johnson, Rick; Powell, John; Speck, Kelly; Hutchings, Jeffrey (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Parasitic salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) threaten the economic and ecological sustainability of salmon farming, and their evolved resistance to treatment with emamectin benzoate (EMB) has been a major problem for ...

• Global sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget, with a focus on advanced data products and uncertainty characterisation 

  Horwath, Martin; Gutknecht, Benjamin D.; Cazenave, Anny; Palanisamy, Hindumathi K.; Marti, Florence; Marzeion, Ben; Paul, Frank; Le Bris, Raymond; Hogg, Anna E.; Otosaka, Ines; Shepherd, Andrew; Döll, Petra; Caceres, Denise; Schmied, Hannes Müller; Johannessen, Johnny Andre; Nilsen, Jan Even Øie; Raj, Roshin Pappukutty; Forsberg, Rene; Sørensen, Louise Sandberg; Barletta, Valentina R.; Simonsen, Sebastian B.; Knudsen, Per; Andersen, Ole Baltazar; Ranndal, Heidi; Rose, Stine K.; Merchant, Christopher J.; Macintosh, Claire R.; Schuckmann von, Karina; Novotny, Kristin; Groh, Andreas; Restano, Marco; Benveniste, Jérôme (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Studies of the global sea-level budget (SLB) and the global ocean-mass budget (OMB) are essential to assess the reliability of our knowledge of sea-level change and its contributors. Here we present datasets for times ...

• Recruitment variability of fish stocks in the Barents Sea: Spatial and temporal variation in 0-group fish length of six commercial species during recent decades of warming (1980–2017) 

  Skjoldal, Hein Rune; Eriksen, Elena; Gjøsæter, Harald; Skagseth, Øystein; Prozorkevich, Dmitry A.; Lien, Vidar Surén (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Young-of-the-year (0-group) fish in the Barents Sea have been investigated in an annual joint Norwegian-Russian pelagic trawl survey in autumn, using a standardized procedure since 1980. We use a conceptual framework of ...

• Risk-benefit assessment of sunscreen: Opinion of the Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids, Materials in Contact with Food, and Cosmetics of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment 

  Bruzell, Ellen; Carlsen, Monica Hauger; Caspersen, Ida Henriette; Denison, Eva Marie-Louise; Devold, Tove Gulbrandsen; Granum, Berit; Mathisen, Gro Haarklou; Pran, Elise Rundén; Rasinger, Josef; Rohloff, Jens; Svendsen, Camilla; Husøy, Trine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

• A novel method for the rapid enumeration of planktonic salmon lice in a mixed zooplankton assemblage using fluorescence 

  Thompson, Cameron; Bron, James Emmanuel; Bui, Samantha; Dalvin, Sussie; Fordyce, Mark; Nordi, Gunnvør á; Skern-Mauritzen, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  The relative rarity of the planktonic larval stages of salmon lice in comparison to other animals captured in a zooplankton assemblage is an obstacle to estimating their abundance and distribution. Due to the labour ...

• Long-term interplay between harvest regimes and biophysical conditions may lead to persistent changes in age at sexual maturity of Northeast Arctic cod (Gadus morhua) 

  Carl Jacob, Rørvik; Bogstad, Bjarte; Ottersen, Geir; Kjesbu, Olav Sigurd (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  This investigation commenced by constructing principal maturation schedule equations as a function of fishing mortality (F), key biophysical factors and a term attributed to fisheries-induced adaptive change (FIAC). Following ...

• Environmental drivers of population-level variation in the migratory and diving ontogeny of an Arctic top predator 

  Grecian, W. James; Stenson, Garry B.; Biuw, Martin; Boehme, Lars; Folkow, Lars; Goulet, Pierre J.; Jonsen, Ian D.; Malde, Aleksander; Nordøy, Erling Sverre; Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu; Smout, Sophie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  The development of migratory strategies that enable juveniles to survive to sexual maturity is critical for species that exploit seasonal niches. For animals that forage via breath-hold diving, this requires a combination ...

• Trans-polar drift-pathways of riverine European microplastic 

  Huserbråten, Mats Brockstedt Olsen; Hattermann, Tore; Broms, Cecilie; Albretsen, Jon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  High concentrations of microplastic particles are reported across the Arctic Ocean–yet no meaningful point sources, suspension timelines, or accumulation areas have been identified. Here we use Lagrangian particle advection ...

• Increasing catch efficiency for Nephrops in deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) trawl fisheries 

  Ingólfsson, Ólafur Arnar; Jørgensen, Terje; Sistiaga, Manu; Herrmann, Bent; Kvalvik, Liz Beate Kolstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  In Skagerrak and the North Sea, coastal vessels harvest deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in a mixed fishery, in which catches of Nephrops (Nephrops norvegicus) are of economic importance for the fleet. Fishermen ...

• On the phenology and seeding potential of sea-ice microalgal species 

  van Leeuwe, Maria A.; Fenton, Mairi; Davey, Emily; Rintala, Janne-Markus; Jones, Elizabeth Marie; Meredith, Michael P.; Stefels, Jacqueline (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Sea ice is an important habitat for a wide variety of microalgal species. Depending on the species composition, sea ice can be a seeding source for pelagic phytoplankton blooms after ice melt in spring. Sea-ice algal ...

• Mid-summer vertical behavior of a high-latitude oceanic zooplankton community 

  Bandara, Kanchana; Basedow, Sünnje Linnéa; Pedersen, Geir; Tverberg, Vigdis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Vertical behavior, such as diel vertical migration (DVM) and swarming are widespread among zooplankton. At higher latitudes, synchronized DVM is mostly absent during summer and predominantly herbivorous copepods tend to ...

• Habitat variability and faunal zonation at the Ægir Ridge, a canyon-like structure in the deep Norwegian Sea 

  Brix, Saskia; Kaiser, Stephanie M.; Lörz, Anne-Nina; Le Saout, Morgane; Schumacher, Mia; Bonk, Frederic; Egilsdottir, Hrönn; Hilma Ólafsdóttir, Steinunn; Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg; Taylor, James; Tewes, Simon; Xavier, Joana R; Linse, Katrin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  The Ægir Ridge System (ARS) is an ancient extinct spreading axis in the Nordic seas extending from the upper slope east of Iceland (∼550 m depth), as part of its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), to a depth of ∼3,800 m in the ...

• Triploid Atlantic salmon × brown trout hybrids have similar seawater growth and welfare issues as triploid Atlantic salmon, but both were heavier at harvest than their diploid counterparts 

  Fraser, Thomas; Hansen, Tom Johnny; Remø, Sofie C.; Olsen, Rolf Erik; Fjelldal, Per Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Interspecific hybridisation may improve the farm performance of sterile triploid salmonids via heterosis (i.e. hybrid vigour). We assessed growth over the final 293 days in seawater, and harvest quality, in diploid and ...

• Discards of cod (Gadus morhua) in the Norwegian coastal fisheries: improving past and future estimates 

  Hilde Sofie Fantoft, Berg; Clegg, Tom; Blom, Geir; Kolding, Jeppe; Ono, Kotaro; Nedreaas, Kjell Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Discarding can be an unknown source of biases and uncertainties in stock assessments. Discarding patterns and quantities vary so a routine methodology for estimating discards is important to give a better picture of total ...

• Varying relationships between fish length and scale size under changing environmental conditions – Multidecadal perspective in Atlantic herring 

  Smolinski, Szymon; Berg, Florian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Calcified structures are valuable indicators being used in fisheries research for the estimation of fish ages or back-calculations of fish lengths. Such back-calculations typically assume constant proportional growth of ...

• Macrophytes as habitat for fish 

  Christie, Hartvig C; Andersen, Guri Sogn; Tveiten, Lise Ann; Moy, Frithjof Emil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  As different macrophyte habitats house different distributions of invertebrates, we questioned if differences in the composition of fish in these habitats also could be identified. Additionally, we addressed the question ...

• First insights into the movements and vertical habitat use of blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) in the eastern North Atlantic 

  Freitas, Carla; Freitas, Mafalda; Andrzejaczek, Samantha; Dale, Jonathan J.; Whippen, Wayne; Block, Barbara A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  The blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a vulnerable migratory fish inhabiting tropical and subtropical pelagic waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The biology and spatial ecology of the species in the eastern ...

• Fish Assemblages of a Sub-Arctic Fjord Show Early Signals of Climate Change Response Contrary to the Benthic Assemblages 

  Merillet, Laurene; Skogen, Morten D.; Vikebø, Frode Bendiksen; Jørgensen, Lis Lindal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Arctic benthic ecosystems are facing high-speed environmental changes, such as decreased sea ice coverage, increased temperature and precipitations, as well as the invasion by non-indigenous species. Few sub-arctic fjords ...

• Suspension-feeding benthic species’ physiological and microbiome response to salmon farming and associated environmental changes 

  Laroche, Olivier; Meier, Sonnich; Mjøs, Svein Are; Keeley, Nigel B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Caged salmon farming is increasingly undertaken in water bodies with strong hydrodynamics where hard and mixed substrate habitats are more prevalent. Yet, these structurally complex and heterogeneous habitats support diverse ...

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