Bergen Telemetry Network

Amazing Friday out on the fjord - 8 Atlantic cod tagged! 🐟☀️ With sediment dumping and hydropower changes planned in the area, we’re collecting crucial before data to see how cod behaviour and habitat use shift as the fjord environment changes.

We've been out popping up acoustic release receivers for fine-scale positioning of thornback rays in our beautiful fjords. Several million detections to work with over the past year! Read more here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/a-year-...

#trackingnotslacking #NFR_LOST #NFR_NorTrack #NFR_DTOTrack

Interested in tracking data and fine-scale
#positioning? Check out our new paper using multilateralization to track brown trout in a hydropower regulated lake in western Norway! 🚨 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/eff.... 🐟
or check out our website summary:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/new-pap...

PhD candidate Jessica Robichaud at Cooke lab at @carleton.ca is visiting us for a month to help with field work. Today, she presented her work for our lab. She is using acoustic telemetry to track permit in the Florida keys! So interesting to see some of her findings! 🐟

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After the workshop, Saron and Erlend also joined fieldwork with the Lennox lab at Dalhousie University, including tracking work with turtles, mackerel, and smolts. Read more about their stay here:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/visitin...

Before summer, PhD students Saron Berhe & Erlend M Hanssen joined the 20th anniversary NoWPaS workshop in Halifax. Five days of talks, networking & exploring Halifax with early-career salmonid researchers from around the world. They also both presented their PhD projects🐟🦦 @nowpas.bsky.social

Looking for a scientific illustrator/graphic designer based in Canada in the "environmental/conservation" space to help with a synthesis figure for a paper. Please ping me with ideas.

Pathogen and Gene Expression Profiles of Atlantic Salmon From an Endangered Population The role of pathogens in impacting the behaviour and fate of salmonids has been studied extensively for some selected pathogens such as sea lice. However, the whole pathobiome of the fish are seldom ...

New paper 🚨 Do pathogens predict salmon survival? In our recently published study on the Endangered Atlantic salmon, we combined acoustic telemetry with pathogen and gene expression profiles. Read the paper here
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....

#Salmosalar
#Telemetry

Fieldwork in Belgium PhD Candidate Lotte S Dahlmo visited two early career researchers at VLIZ in Belgium this week. In the fall of 2023, Lotte Pohl and David Casals, both employed at VLIZ, reached out to Lotte to collabo...

Last week @lottesdahlmo.bsky.social visited @lottepohl.bsky.social and David Casals at @vliz.be through their #EMFish acoustic tracking project.

Read more about her visit: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/fieldwo...

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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences social card to promote call for papers on new collection 'Fish telemetry to address management and conservation' with image of boat and fish underwater.

Have you used fish telemetry in your research? @cjfas.bsky.social is accepting submissions on how telemetry is being applied to support conservation and management in aquatic ecosystems. This includes work from @icft2025.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/Y2FTYRL

Tagging of Mustelus asterias

What a week it’s been! I’ve visited @lottepohl.bsky.social & David Casals at @vliz.be in Belgium for our #EMFish project. My first time seeing and tagging a Mustelus asterias - so cool! Thanks for a very fun day on the North Sea!

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Hello fishy friends! 🐠
We’re the team behind the scenes at the European Tracking Network — serving up deep science and even deeper puns 😈🐡
🎣 [Thread incoming] 🎣

We’ve downloaded data from our receivers around Bergen city center for the #BOATS project. Interested to see an example of fine-scale positioning movement data from a tagged European lobster? Check out the BTN website here www.bergentelemetry.com/post/downloa...

Today is International Shark Day!

Sharks are over 550 species that come in many shapes and sizes, from the minuscule 20 cm long dwarf lanternshark to the almost 100 times longer whale shark. Amazing! (but not a surprise, which was ruined by their names).

We are now starting the second part of the #NFR_HITLICE project on Senja, Northern Norway, where we infect migrating salmon smolts with salmon lice and tag them with acoustic transmitters with predation sensors to investigate the vulnerability to predation 🐟

Anchoring of the PIT antenna to the riverbed during low river discharge

Picture of the river Nidelva in Southern Norway with NORCE LFI employee snorkeling to make sure that the antenna is well secured and deployed

We've installed a PIT antenna in Nidelva to track returning Atlantic salmon smolts tagged last year through our #NFR_HITLice project. Smolts were infested with sea lice before release. Low discharge makes drilling the antenna to the riverbed easier, still a river with 3–4°C makes it quite tough!

Exciting news - we are tracking chimaeras, the ghost shark, in the Bergen city fjords We received great news from Save Our Seas Foundation that the Ghost Track project will be funded. The ghost shark, Chimaera monstrosa, is a deep water cartilaginous fish that occupies great depths. Th...

🚨 New project 🚨 @saveourseas.bsky.social is funding our #SOSF_GhostTrack project - we’re tracking ghost sharks, Chimaera monstrosa, around Bergen city! Read more here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/excitin...

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#trackingnotslacking

Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen

Interested in predation? Our #NFR_RePress project investigates the reemerging conflicts between European Otter and Atlantic salmon in Norway. Go check out our webpage for an update of the development of the project:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/progres...

Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen

Beautiful day in field earlier this week deploying receivers in the fjords around Bergen city☀️ These will track some fascinating species that we’re going to tag through some new projects starting this year 🌊🦈🐠

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Let’s continue striving for greater inclusivity, diversity, and recognition of the talented women and girls in STEM. And let every young girl with a dream of a future in STEM know that there is place for them in our field! ✨

#womeninscience

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!

Today, we honor the women who've made incredible contributions to STEM in the past, overcoming challenges and hostile environments 🌸 We're inspired by & appreciate all the amazing & hard working women in our field around the globe!

#womeninstem

@robertlennox.bsky.social @kwvollset.bsky.social @fishybiologistkim.bsky.social @sjcfishy.bsky.social @lottesdahlmo.bsky.social @lundbergpetter.bsky.social

The role of habitat in predator–prey dynamics with applications to restoration Habitat is a powerful force in ecosystems, and the quantity and quality of habitat can shape ecosystem structure and function. Among the many important roles that habitat plays is as a mediator of ec...

Interested in predator-prey dynamics & habitat restoration? Check out our new review paper🚨 We discuss the importance of habitat complexity as a refuge, for phenotype variation, energetic costs, & apparent competition - and their implications for restoration.

doi.org/10.1111/rec....

Nytt vitenskapsråd oppnevnt Vitenskapelig råd for lakseforvaltning er et uavhengig råd opprettet av Miljødirektoratet, som vurderer bestandsstatus for norsk laks, trusselfaktorer, beskatningsnivå og andre tema som berører villak...

De siste tre dagene har det nyoppnevnte Vitenskapsrådet vært samlet på Meråker. 11 medlemmer ble oppnevnt på nytt, og tre nye forskere tar fatt på arbeidet sammen med dem. #villaks

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Last week’s study hall somehow resulted in us swimming around with acoustic tags in our socks in the fjord today!

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New paper out from our #NFR_PACE project! We combined acoustic telemetry with gill biopsies to investigate the activity of anadromous brown trout during their spawning migration in three rivers in Norway. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/jfd....

#Telemetry #Pathogens #SalmoTrutta

We spent the last field days in December retrieving receivers for our eel project in Storelva in southern Norway. All found, none lost! Looking forward to starting 2025 digging into the data✨

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The gang's all here with us for @oceantracking.bsky.social 's 2024 Node Manager Training. Representatives from 10 animal telemetry networks are learning for the first time or getting a refresher on the ins and outs of using OTN software to manage their telemetry data systems.

Drivers of behaviour and spatial ecology of the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) Shark populations have suffered dramatic declines across the world as a result of overfishing. Marine protected areas (MPAs) can help restore overfished populations; however, their effectiveness la...

Acoustic telemetry reveals the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is most active at night and relies on inshore waters, especially females. Small MPAs may not fully protect them. Larger MPAs and nighttime fishing bans could improve conservation. 🦈🌊

doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#sharks

There’s been a migration of folks over here so I thought I’d say hi! 👋 I’m a fish ecophysiologist, studying when & why fish are vulnerable (climate, catch-and-release), movements, and the habitats they rely on using both experimental approaches and telemetry, in the wild! 🐟🦈

www.kimbirniegauvin.com