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2023_european_eel_meuse: Acoustic telemetry study of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the Meuse river basin
Citation
Winter, HV; Griffioen, AB; van Keeken, OA; van der Hammen, T; van Rijssel, JC.; (2023); 2023_Acoustic telemetry data for European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the Meuse around hydropower stations Lith and Linne. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8552
Contact: Winter, Erwin
Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2027-05-02
Description

The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is an eel species that is critically endangered. Glass eels migrate from the Sargasso Sea towards Europe and spend most of their life in freshwater. After 5-20 years the eels start to mature and become "silver eels". These silver eel migrate downstream towards the sea to start their long spawning migration back to the Sargasso Sea. During this spawning migration, silver eels encounter several anthropogenic migration barriers. This project aims to gain insight in when, how and where silver eels pass these migration barriers at Lith and Linne in the river Meuse and whether this results in losses of silver eels.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Fresh water, Acoustic arrays, Acoustic data, Acoustic detection, Acoustic devices, Acoustic Tags, Acoustic telemetry, Acoustic Telemetry, Acoustic tracking, Animal migrations, Animal Project, Eels (anguilla anguilla), Fish tracking, Glass eel, Sluices, Spawning migrations, Weirs, Belgium, Meuse R., Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
Belgium, Meuse R. [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 2023 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry
Contributors
Wageningen University and Research Centre; Wageningen Marine Research (WMR), more, principal investigator, data collector
Winter, Erwin
van der Hammen, Tessa
Griffioen, Ben
van Rijssel, Jacco
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2024-05-02
Information last updated: 2024-05-08
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