Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea
The processes by which eels arrive to the Baltic Sea are discussed in the light of an almost total lack of 0+ eels in the Kattegatt and the Sound during 1996. The comparatively high elver abundance at the Skagerrak coast the same year indicates that this was due to a failure of the glass eels to pen...
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| description | The processes by which eels arrive to the Baltic Sea are discussed in the light of an almost total lack of 0+ eels in the Kattegatt and the Sound during 1996. The comparatively high elver abundance at the Skagerrak coast the same year indicates that this was due to a failure of the glass eels to penetrate into the Kattegatt, which can be attributed to a lack of westerly winds during the winter and early spring. A tentative scenario is a mainly passive surface advection south along the Swedish Kattegatt coast followed by an active migration of the 0+ elvers in a narrow, shallow coastal region through the Sound and into the Baltic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb067b4b25594528b6f587345ebdad762022-12-22T03:29:16ZengEDP SciencesKnowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems1961-95021998-04-01034917718510.1051/kmae:1998042kmae199834907Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic SeaWESTERBERG H.The processes by which eels arrive to the Baltic Sea are discussed in the light of an almost total lack of 0+ eels in the Kattegatt and the Sound during 1996. The comparatively high elver abundance at the Skagerrak coast the same year indicates that this was due to a failure of the glass eels to penetrate into the Kattegatt, which can be attributed to a lack of westerly winds during the winter and early spring. A tentative scenario is a mainly passive surface advection south along the Swedish Kattegatt coast followed by an active migration of the 0+ elvers in a narrow, shallow coastal region through the Sound and into the Baltic.http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/kmae:1998042 |
| spellingShingle | WESTERBERG H. Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems |
| title | Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea |
| title_full | Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea |
| title_fullStr | Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea |
| title_short | Oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the Baltic Sea |
| title_sort | oceanographic aspects of the recruitment of eels to the baltic sea |
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