Swedish shark research at #SLUAqua

Our new #SLUAqua paper summarises the development and deployment of a mobile electronic monitoring system. Twenty vessels in the Swedish small-scale fleet have carried the systems so far, with the aim of better detecting protected species bycatch. #EM4FISH 🦑 🐬🧪🌎

New #SLUAqua research paper shows that pink #salmon are present in a river only 35 km from the entrance to the Baltic Sea, which means there is a high risk pink salmon will spread into the Baltic Sea in the coming years. 🦑 🧪🌎

Stronger effect of temperature on body growth in cool than in warm populations suggests lack of local adaptation Body size is a key functional trait that has declined in many biological communities, partly due to changes in individual growth rates in response to climate warming. However, our understanding of gr....

New research from #SLUAqua - Stronger effect of temperature on body growth in cool than in warm populations suggests lack of local adaptation🦑 🧪🌎
Max Lindmark et al. 2025 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Two round goby sit on the seafloor facing the camera. In the background three or four goby can just be seen. The substrate is brown silty looking.

New research from #SLUAqua - The invasive round goby shakes up life in the Baltic Sea 🧪🦑🌎🐠https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316546

Map of North Atlantic with surface current patterns relative to the migration path of European eel, with collection locations in Norway (orange stars), and the selected bomb-produced 14C chronology locations from across the North Atlantic and North America (nuclear symbols

Super interesting new research paper out of #SluAQUA -

"Bomb radiocarbon dating and age estimation of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) of Norway" - Andrews AH et al.

doi.org/10.1017/RDC.... 🧪🐟💣🌎🐠