At 11:19 06/05/97 +0200, you wrote:
Dear Tina,
Do you know the EIFAC Technical Paper n° 42/suppl./1-2 about
a symposium held in Budapest in 1982 on "Stock enhancement in the management
of freshwater fish" ? If not, you might find some interresting examples of
stocking succes.
Mario
>And now to my request:
>
>- Does any of you have information on the causes of reared fish having a
lower survival
>than wild fish?
>If reared fish are incompetent with respect to feeding or avoiding
predation - what is
>then the reason? If these scills are inherited, reared fish should have the
same
>appropiate behavour as wild fish (at least if the breeding strain has been
caught in
>nature). But if fish must learn the right behaviour it is obvious why
reared fish have a
>lower survival. I know that the answer will probably differ among species,
but I am
>mainly interested in flatfish, gadids and salmonids.
>
>- Does anybody know of studies where fish have been reared in a way that
should promote
>the "right" behaviour after release?
>
>I have of course made searches in ASFA, but I could not find any recent
papers dealing
>with both stock enhancement and the developmental basis of behaviour.
>
>Any information will be appreciated.
>
>-Tina
>
>--
>Tina Grønborg - thesis student
>Univ. of Aarhus, Inst. of Biology, Dept. of Marine Ecology
>Finlandsgade 14, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
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