Less anxious salmon smolt become easy prey during downstream migration.
Behavior
Ecosystem experiment
GABAergic
Pharmaceutical
Predator-prey
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Oct 2019
15 Oct 2019
Historique:
received:
18
02
2019
revised:
27
05
2019
accepted:
31
05
2019
pubmed:
19
6
2019
medline:
30
10
2019
entrez:
19
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Hatchery-reared salmon smolt used for supplementary stocking often display poor migration behavior compared to wild smolt, which reduces the success of this management action. Oxazepam, an anxiolytic drug, has been shown to intensify salmon smolt migration in mesocosm experiments, and treatment with this drug has, therefore, been suggested as a management option to improve downstream smolt migration. In this study, we tested this by assessing migration performance of hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolt along a 21-km long natural river-to-sea migration route in a boreal river in Northern Sweden. Using acoustic telemetry, the migration rate and survival of smolt that had been exposed to oxazepam (200 μg L
Identifiants
pubmed: 31212157
pii: S0048-9697(19)32548-3
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.488
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
488-493Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.