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New paper on how sea trout use lake before they spawn
We’re excited to share that our new paper is out, where we tracked the movements of sea-run brown trout (or sea trout/anadromous brown...
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Aug 14
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Visiting Canada for workshop and fieldwork
Before summer, PhD students Saron Berhe and Erlend M Hanssen took part in the NoWPaS workshop, a five day international workshop for PhDs...
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Aug 8
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Do pathogens predict salmon survival? Our recent study suggests that it is not that simple
Historically, Norwegian rivers have been associated with the fascinating Atlantic salmon fish species. This salmonid has become...
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Jul 24
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Fieldwork in Belgium
PhD Candidate Lotte S Dahlmo visited two early career researchers at VLIZ in Belgium this week. In the fall of 2023, Lotte Pohl and David...
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Jul 18
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Downloading data and changing batteries on receivers in Bergen City center
During spring and early summer, Saron and Lars Martin have been out in field maintaining our receivers that are located in the city...
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Jul 9
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Tagging of the first chimaeras, or ghost sharks, in the PUFFINS and GhostTrack projects
In fall 2024 we received the news that the application for the PUFFINS project was accepted and will receive funding by the Norwegian...
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Mar 18
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New paper on how habitat affects the dynamics of predator-prey events and its applications to restoration
In January, the BTN team together with colleagues at NORCE and other partnering institutes in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Canada...
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Mar 11
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Exciting news - we are tracking chimaeras, the ghost shark, in the Bergen city fjords
We received great news from Save Our Seas Foundation that the Ghost Track project will be funded. The ghost shark, Chimaera monstrosa ,...
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Mar 4
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Latest developments in the Otter project - RePress
We are now in 2025 and are halfway through our otter project - RePress. The motivation behind this project stems from the reemerging...
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Feb 25
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New paper: How Pathogens Affect Wild Fish During Migration
We are excited to share our latest research on how infections impact wild fish! Pathogens - organisms that cause disease - are known to...
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Jan 15
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Fieldwork in Svalbard Presents New Challenges
Fieldwork in the Arctic presents new challenges for us. One morning we were met by two new guests on the beach blocking the way to the...
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Dec 5, 2024
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Summarizing this year's fieldwork in BOATS
As this season’s fieldwork in BOATS project draws to a close, we’ve truly enjoyed the mostly sunny days at Puddefjorden and Store...
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Nov 21, 2024
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A new tracking project!!
We recently received amazing news from the Norwegian Research Council (NRC) that our 'Pressures of Urbanisation on Fish and Fisheries in...
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Nov 18, 2024
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Update from the NICE Project in Svalbard
We have now completed the first year's fieldwork in the NICE project in Svalbard. We have had several successful field trips, including...
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Nov 5, 2024
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Tagging of Eels in Storelva
In September and October, we are tagging migrating silver eels in Storelva in Tvedestrand, Southern Norway. We have previously documented...
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Oct 29, 2024
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Presentation of potential mating season of spiny dogfish at the 2024 OTN Symposium
In the end of September, our PhD candidate Lotte presented results from her first PhD chapter at the 2024 OTN Symposium hosted by Ocean...
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Oct 21, 2024
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Wild Salmonids Facing Pathogen and Climate Challenges Amid Fish Farm Expansion
As the PACE (Pathogen, Aquaculture, Climate, and Environment) project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, nears completion, new...
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Oct 16, 2024
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Tagging of Thornback rays
As a part of the LOST project, we went out earlier this fall to capture and tag Thornback rays ( Raja clavata ). The thornback ray is a...
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Oct 3, 2024
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Tagging cod, pollack, and lobsters in Bergen city
We continue with tagging cod and lobsters in Store Lungegårdsvannet. Additionally, we also started to tag pollack and take blood samples...
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Jul 13, 2023
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Tagging of adult Atlantic salmon in Suldal
Earlier this year in Suldal, we tagged 75 wild smolts and 75 hatchery smolts with acoustic tags and 8000 hatchery smolts with PIT tags....
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Jul 13, 2023
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