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Moray Firth 2016: Marine migration of Atlantic salmon smolts
Citation
Newton, M., Barry, J., Lothian, A., Main, R., Adams, C. (2016) Marine migration of Atlantic salmon smolts. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5914

Availability: Unrestricted after moratorium period
Data are initially restricted, but the access condition relaxes to academic or unrestricted once a specified period of time after an event (such as collection, publication, completion of QC procedures or project cessation) has elapsed

Description
Atlantic Salmon smolts were tracked further from shore than previously accomplished in the UK. 66 Acoustic receivers were deployed to track 150 smolts through freshwater, estuarine and early marine portions of migration.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Acoustic telemetry, Acoustic Telemetry, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), Fish migration, ANE, British Isles, Scotland, Moray Firth, Pisces

Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, Scotland, Moray Firth [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 April 2016 - 1 July 2016
Quasi continuous (< 1 min.)

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]

Contributors
University of Glasgow, moredata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2018-02-28
Information last updated: 2018-03-05
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