12 April 2023 – Alessandro Cresci‘s work to address the question of how fish larvae will react to the noise generated by offshore wind turbines was covered by Hakai Magazine.Read the article in Hakai MagazineRead a story about the article by the Institute of Marine ResearchRead the press release about the studyRead the article in Communications Biology
Caroline Durif’s article on eel migration is covered by The Economist
4 November 2021 – Caroline Durif’s article, “A unifying hypothesis for the spawning migrations of temperate anguillid eels on eel migration“, is covered by The Economist magazine. Read the story HERE. Read the press release.
Alessandro Cresci’s article on the relationship between the moon cycle and the orientation of glass eels is published and covered by the news media
November 2019 – Alessandro’s latest article is published, Alessandro Cresci, C. M. F. Durif, C. B. Paris, C. Thompson, S. Shema, A. B. Skiftesvik and H. I. Browman. 2019. The relationship between the moon cycle and the orientation of glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) at sea. Royal Society Open Science 6: 190812, doi: 10.1098/rsos.190812.Read the articleRead stories on Mongabay, in Science et …
Alessandro Cresci’s article on magnetic imprinting in glass eels is published and covered by the news media
8 October 2019 – Alessandro’s latest article is published in the Nature-Springer journal, Communications Biology and is covered by the news media. Cresci, A, C.B. Paris, C.M.F. Durif, S. Shema, C. Thompson, R. Bjelland, A.B. Skiftesvik & H.I. Browman. 2019. Glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) imprint the magnetic direction of tidal currents from their juvenile estuaries. Communications Biology (2019) 2:366. | …
Alessandro Cresci’s article on magnetic orientation in Atlantic haddock larvae gets covered by the news media
1 October 2019 – Whether tiny haddock larvae let themselves be carried around by ocean currents or actively migrate was unknown – until now. They use the earth’s magnetic field to orient! Check out our new article in iScience and some of the coverage that it is getting in the media. Cresci, A., C.B. Paris, M.A. Foretich, C.M.F. Durif, S. …
Seismic surveys do not significantly harm Calanus finmarchicus
7 August 2019 – An article on this theme by the Team was published today in the ICES Journal of Marine Science as an Editor’s Choice article. Fields, D.M., N.O. Handegard, J. Dalen, C. Eichner, K. Malde, Ø. Karlsen, A.B. Skiftesvik, C.M.F. Durif & H.I. Browman. 2019. Airgun blasts used in marine seismic surveys have limited effects on mortality, and …
Lys og rensefisk
Skiftesvik, A.B., R. Bjelland, C. Durif, K. Halvorsen, D. Fields, E. Loew & H. Browman (2018). Lys og rensefisk. Norsk Fiskeoppdrett 12, 2018: 42-55.Read the article (in Norwegian).
Reise med ål
Caroline Durif’s field work with eel is described in a new popular book on eel – Reise med ål – en omvei hjem (Travel with eels – a detour home). See the book HERE and see the review of the book HERE. (both in Norwegian).
Delousing agent keeps juvenile lobsters from finding shelter
3 October 2018 – Alessandro Cresci‘s recent article – Cresci, A., Samuelsen, O. B., Durif, C. M., Bjelland, R. M., Skiftesvik, A. B., Browman, H. I., & Agnalt, A. L. (2018). Exposure to teflubenzuron negatively impacts exploratory behavior, learning and activity of juvenile European lobster (Homarus gammarus). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 160, 216-221. – was covered as a news story by our …
Attempt to use facial recognition to identify individual fish
Kim Havlorsen and the Team’s developing research project on using machine learning to autmoatically identify individual fish using their unique facial markings was covered in stories by our Institute (HERE) and the industry magazine Tekfisk (HERE – in Norwegian).
Foreslår leppefiske bare hvert tredje år (Fallowing – within zones – for the wrasse fishery)
4 November 2017 – Anne Berit Skiftesvik is interviewed for an article appearing in Bergens Tidende about coastal zoning for the wrasse (cleanerfish) fishery, including the possibility of only fishing within one zone every three years (=fallowing). Read the article HERE (in Norwegian).
Forskerne jobber beinhardt for å få leppefiskoversikt (Researchers are working hard to assess the stock status of cleanerfish)
25 October 2017 – Anne Berit Skiftesvik was interviewed for a story about the coastal fishery for wrasses. Read the article HERE (in Norwegian).
Kartlegg leppefiskbestanden (Mapping cleanerfish populations)
7 September 2017 – An article (in Norwegian) about the team’s work to map cleanerfish populations appeared in the newspaper Marsteinen. Read it HERE.
Fiskar etter svar om ålen (Fishing for answers about the eel)
22 August 2017 – HERE is an article, and video, about the Team’s work (led by Caroline Durif) on population dynamics of the European eel in Norwegian waters (in Norwegian). The opening of a small-scale (20 tons) eel fishery in Norway in support of this research – in collaboration with 29 fishers – was reported on by the Norwegian trade …
Lusejakt for milliarder (Lice hunting for billions)
July 2017 – An article (in Norwegian) about the team’s field work on cleanerfish (wrasse) populations appeared in the trade magazine, Maritimt Magasin. Read it HERE.