Jm. Elliott et al., A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF MIGRATORY SALMONIDS AS VECTORS OF ORGANIC-CARBON BETWEEN MARINE AND FRESH-WATER ENVIRONMENTS, Science of the total environment, 194, 1997, pp. 219-223
This study is part of a larger investigation to obtain estimates of fl
uxes of various constituents transported by migrating salmonids in riv
ers in northeast England. Initial work has focussed on the River Tweed
because it supports one of the largest populations of Atlantic salmon
and sea-trout in the UK. Preliminary investigations for the 6 years,
1989-1994, have shown that the total annual carbon import via adults o
f both salmonid species varied from 26-35 x 10(3) kg in the poorest ye
ar to 28-40 x 10(3) kg in the best year. Total annual carbon export vi
a smelts of both species varied from 2.2-2.9 x 10(3) kg in the poorest
year to 3.7-4.5 x 10(3) kg in the best year. (C) 1997 Elsevier Scienc
e B.V.