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On the interaction of turbulent flow and feeding behaviour of juvenile Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
Authors:Enders,E. C.,Buffin&#    langer,T.,Boisclair,D.,&   Roy,A. G.
Affiliation:(1Département de sciences biologiques, Universitéde Montréal, C.P. 6128 Succursale Centre ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada;;2Département de géographie, Universitéde Montréal, C.P. 6128 Succursale Centre ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada).
Abstract:Anthropogenic activities can dramatically modify the riverine habitat of juvenile Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ). In the perspective of protecting and restoring the fluvial habitat, bioenergetic models are often used to estimate fish habitat quality. These models determine the habitat quality as the ratio between the energetic gains (food) and costs (growth, metabolism) of a fish. The energetic costs of swimming in a river are generally estimated using the average flow velocity without consideration of the effect of turbulence. Juvenile Atlantic salmon (JAS) live in rivers characterized by intense velocity fluctuations, which are often described as a succession of high‐ and low‐speed flow regions. These flow structures are likely to affect the JAS activity that consists of long periods of sit‐and‐wait at the top of a protuberant rock interrupted by short bursting motions to capture drifting food particles. To minimize the energetic costs, it is hypothesized that JAS use low‐speed flow regions to initiate and undertake their feeding motions.  To improve bioenergetic modelling, this study aimed at analyzing the relation between turbulent flow structures and the feeding behaviour of JAS in a natural gravel‐bed river. We filmed eight JAS during 30 min with a submersible video camera while simultaneously measuring velocity fluctuations close to the fish in the St. Marguerite River, Quebec, Canada. Our results show that the proportion of time used for feeding motions decreases with increasing turbulent intensity and mean flow velocity; and that JAS do not seem to prefer low‐speed flow regions to initiate their feeding motions.
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