Spawning by the European eel across 2000 km of the Sargasso Sea

Sammanfattning

It has been known for about a century that European eels have a unique life history that includes offshore spawning in the Sargasso Sea about 5000-7000 km away from their juvenile and adult habitats in Europe and northern Africa. Recently hatched eel larvae were historically collected during Danish, German and American surveys in specific areas in the southern Sargasso Sea. During a 31 day period of March and April 2014, Danish and German research ships sampled for European eel larvae along 15 alternating transects of stations across the Sargasso Sea. The collection of recently hatched eel larvae (

Nyckelord

Anguilla anguilla; spawning area; migration; leptocephali; ocean fronts; Sargasso Sea

Publicerad i

Biology Letters
2019, volym: 15, nummer: 4, artikelnummer: 20180835
Utgivare: ROYAL SOC

SLU författare

• Westerberg, Håkan

  • Institutionen för akvatiska resurser (SLU Aqua), Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Fisk- och akvakulturforskning

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0835

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/100390