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How Fish Populations Handle Stress Differently

Autumn 2023 has seen another busy season for the members of SEG, let’s see what everyone’s been up to.

Dams are structures built across rivers and streams to generate hydroelectric power, provide water for irrigation, control flooding, and provide recreational opportunities. However, dam construction and operation can have significant impacts on river ecosystems and fish populations.

This past May until August we finally ran the much anticipated experiments in the artificial stream channels in Lunz Am See, Austria!

Sea Trout, Essential Facts, and Significance!

Ever wondered…

MAPS heads south!

Progress is being made for the NOBROOK project!

A new year for MAPS with lots of exciting work in the pipeline! Plans for a habitat mapping workshop, setting up new stationary antennas and fieldwork in sunny Portugal.

SEG heads North.

At the end of May Johan and Madeleine set off to France for a few days to check out a potential stream site for the MAPS project.

The spring has been a busy time for the NOBROOK project!

Fieldwork season has begun!

The SEG is getting ready for spring!

The antennas are working!

The SEG is hard at work!

MAPS goes international!

Denmark is the first stop on the MAPS European tour, seeing us working in the stream Gudsø in the region of Kolding.

The initial field work for the NOBROOK project has begun!

This autumn we have started the process of tagging fish in several stream sections in Borås with both allopatric populations with only brown trout and sympatric populations of both brown trout and brook trout.

MAPS begins!

The autumn field season sees the MAPS project get underway in Sweden. Here we have chosen a Haga å, a small stream running through the town of Billdal, Gothenburg, as our main study system for the coming years.