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2024_dvw_fish_migration: Acoustic telemetry study on the movement and migration behaviour of diadromous and potamodromous fish in the highly fragmented River Scheldt basin
Citation
Verhelst, P., Buysse, D., Bruneel, S., Demaerteleire, N., Pauwels, I., Plaetinck, S., Rosseel, D., Coeck, J. Acoustic telemetry study on the movement and migration behaviour of diadromous and potamodromous fish in the highly fragmented River Scheldt basin. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8602

Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2027-06-01

Description

The River Scheldt basin is highly fragmented and regulated with various water regulating structures such as shipping lock complexes, weirs and even a few hydropower turbines. These structures pose important migration barriers for diadromous and potamodromous fish species as they need to migrate between various habitats to complete their life cycle. Through this tracking study, the movement and migration behaviour of a number of diadromous and potamodromous fish species will be studied in relation to these migration barriers, but also the effectivity of fish passes when present. Hence, this study enables the investigation of the movement and migration behaviour of both diadromous and potamodromous fish species on a river basin scale in relation to various anthropogenic impacts, as well as mitigation measures.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Fresh water, Acoustic arrays, Acoustic data, Acoustic detection, Acoustic devices, Acoustic receivers, Acoustic tags, Acoustic Tags, Acoustic telemetry, Acoustic Telemetry, Acoustic tracking, Animal migrations, Animal Project, Animal tracking, Dams, Diadromous fishes, Fish movement, Fish pass entrance and attraction, Fish passability, Fish passes, Freshwater structures, Hydropower, Live fish movement, Potadromous migrations, Tracking data, Weirs, Belgium, Schelde R., Pisces

Geographical coverage
Belgium, Schelde R. [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 June 2024 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]

Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), moreprincipal investigatordata creator
Universiteit Gent (UGent), moredata creator

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

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2024-06-18
Information last updated: 2024-07-22
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