Recent increase of North Sea houting and prospects for recolonization in the Netherlands |
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| Authors: | J. Kranenbarg H. V. Winter J. J. G. M. Backx |
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| Affiliation: | Institute for Inland Water Management &Waste Water Treatment (RIZA), P.O. Box 17, 8200 AA Lelystad, The Netherlands;Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO), P.O. Box 68, 1970 AB IJmuiden, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Two monitoring programmes in estuarine and freshwater systems in the Netherlands both show a recent increase in anadromous North Sea houting Coregonus oxyrhynchus after it disappeared there in the 1940s. Most houting were immature and caught during the feeding season indicating that at present the riverine and estuarine waters in the Netherlands mainly function as a feeding habitat. |
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| Keywords: | houting Coregonus oxyrhynchus recolonization migration estuary |
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