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Daniel Nyqvist @daninyqvist.bsky.social · 15d

New review paper titled "Balancing hydropower production and ecology - ecological impacts, mitigation measures, and programmatic monitoring" published in KMAE. With @jnaslund.bsky.social and others. Read it here: www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kma...

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Status and future perspectives of pink salmon in the Nordic region 🐟🐟🐟

New article out now
@evathorstad.bsky.social @jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social

Check it out here: doi.org/10.60910/ber...

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Pink salmon, native to the North Pacific, are rapidly invading Nordic waters. Since 2017, numbers have surged 50x, especially in Norway. Their impact on ecosystems remains unclear due to limited research and management plans #fish #invasive
Read more here: doi.org/10.60910/ber...

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Status and future perspectives of pink salmon in the Nordic region 🐟🐟🐟

New article out now
@evathorstad.bsky.social @jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social

Check it out here: doi.org/10.60910/ber...

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Pink salmon, native to the North Pacific, are rapidly invading Nordic waters. Since 2017, numbers have surged 50x, especially in Norway. Their impact on ecosystems remains unclear due to limited research and management plans #fish #invasive
Read more here: doi.org/10.60910/ber...

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · May 31

Submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) enhances epifaunal diversity & abundance, esp. grazers. 🌱🐌🐚🌊Filamentous algal mats mainly increase gastropod populations. Protecting SAV & reducing eutrophication are vital for sustaining Baltic Sea invertebrate communities.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Enhances Density and Diversity of Epifaunal Invertebrates Compared to Filamentous Mats in the Central Baltic Sea

This study evaluates the relative importance of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) and filamentous mats in shaping epifaunal invertebrate communities in the central Baltic Sea. Our results showed tha....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Moler @envdna.bsky.social · May 25

Detection of Non-Native Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Swedish Rivers Using eDNA

#eDNA #environmentalDNA

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Detection of Non‐Native Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Swedish Rivers Using eDNA

eDNA surveys were conducted in 27 river systems in south-western Sweden in 2023 to detect adult spawning pink salmon. Results indicated, through mainly qPCR methods, the presence of pink salmon at 24...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · May 20

New paper showing the distribution and spread of pink salmon in Sweden (fish native to the Pacific Ocean). They are on the edge of entering the Baltic Sea…let’s see what happens during the 2025 migration this summer? #eDNA #fishes #invasive 🧬🐟🇸🇪 doi.org/10.1002/edn3... @evathorstad.bsky.social

Detection of Non‐Native Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Swedish Rivers Using eDNA

eDNA surveys were conducted in 27 river systems in south-western Sweden in 2023 to detect adult spawning pink salmon. Results indicated, through mainly qPCR methods, the presence of pink salmon at 24...

doi.org

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · May 20

New paper showing the distribution and spread of pink salmon in Sweden (fish native to the Pacific Ocean). They are on the edge of entering the Baltic Sea…let’s see what happens during the 2025 migration this summer? #eDNA #fishes #invasive 🧬🐟🇸🇪 doi.org/10.1002/edn3... @evathorstad.bsky.social

Detection of Non‐Native Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Swedish Rivers Using eDNA

eDNA surveys were conducted in 27 river systems in south-western Sweden in 2023 to detect adult spawning pink salmon. Results indicated, through mainly qPCR methods, the presence of pink salmon at 24...

doi.org

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jan 23

Bottom trawling, dragging a heavy net across the seafloor, has been compared to burning down a forest to catch rabbits.

Sweden starting to ban this in sensitive habitats is my #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism for today.

🦑🧪🌎🐠

(I’m not anti-trawl but there are some places we shouldn’t do it)

Sweden sets an example for EU countries with first steps to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas

Swedish government proposal to amend legislation, paving the way for a future ban on bottom trawling in Swedish marine protected areas.

europe.oceana.org

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Jan 23

Great Colin that a PhD position is coming out for pink salmon work. We need more of these around Europe!

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Eva B. Thorstad @evathorstad.bsky.social · Jan 14

Invading and range-expanding pink salmon inform management actions for marine species on the move: new paper in @icesmarine.bsky.social ICES J Marine Science academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva... @profcolinbean.bsky.social @jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social @jalangan.bsky.social @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

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ProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · Jan 19

Fantastic PhD opportunity to study invasive Pink salmon with a geniune multidisciplinary team - if you have skills in fish ecology, stats and/or social science then move quickly to apply. UK and non-UK students welcome. Please forward.

Fergus Chadwick @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social · Jan 17

We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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ProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · Jan 20

Great work by Karen Dunmall explaining our new paper on Pink salmon and range expansion, selected by ICES Journal of Marine Science as their Editor's Choice this week. Liking the video explainer that accompanies these papers.

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Jan 20

🌍🐟The Arctic’s warming waters are fuelling pink salmon’s rapid expansion.
✍️The latest #IJMS #EditorsChoice presents a global strategy for managing species on the move.
👉 www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
@jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social @evathorstad.bsky.social
@jalangan.bsky.social @profcolinbean.bsky.social

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Jan 22

www.biographic.com/where-the-ri...

Where the Rivers Run Pink

Non-native pink salmon have swarmed Norway’s rivers, prompting a relentless—and potentially fruitless—fight to beat back the invaders.

www.biographic.com

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Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social · Jan 1

Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!

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Joacim Näslund @jnaslund.bsky.social · Jan 2

Post doc opportunity: Join the Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm and work with a legendary fish species (eel). !!Apply this week!! 🐟🐠🐡🧪🔬 #fishsci

Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social · Jan 1

Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Dec 17

New report out: Management of Pink Salmon in the
North Atlantic and Their Potential Threats
to Wild Atlantic Salmon. 🐟🧪 Info from the special session at the NASCO annual meeting June 2024 nasco.int/wp-content/u... #bioinvasions @evathorstad.bsky.social @profcolinbean.bsky.social

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · Dec 13

Pink salmon is the smallest Pacific salmon species (the genus Oncorhynchus) found in North America, often weighing <5 lb (2.2 kg).

“Oncorhynchus” comes from the Greek onkos ("hook") + rynchos ("nose"), in reference to the hooked jaws males typically develop in the spawning season #25DaysofFishmas

A pink salmon with a Grinch face; the text says "December 13"

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · Nov 12

go.bsky.app/LXwgsEZ

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ProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · Nov 16

Join the conversation on Marine Ecology here. Topics on monitoring, assessment, protection, conservation, restoration and management

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Jose M. Fariñas-Franco @drjosemfarinas.bsky.social · Nov 30

Sharing this photo of a native oyster bed in one of our survey sites here for the first time. This was my coelacanth moment, especially as many deny these oyster habitats even exist. Same as eels, Ostrea edulis (the species and the habitat) are threatened and yet we keep managing them as a fishery.

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Nov 29

Can you add me in please? Cheers

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Daniel Nyqvist @daninyqvist.bsky.social · Nov 28

Exotic European gudgeon is replacing Italian gudgeon in Italian streams and rivers. We tested interspecific differences in the lab. The smaller Italian gudgeon displayed lower maximum swimming speed and substantially higher sympatric mortality. Recent paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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