Hvar eru urriða- og bleikjuseiðin?
Uppeldissvæði eru svæði sem eru mest nýtt af seiðum og ungum fiskum. Það er hægt að líta á þau sem...
Where are the baby Brown trout and Arctic charr?
Nursery grounds are habitats mainly used by juvenile (baby) fish. As the name suggests these habitats are like nurseries for...
The tale of the founder flounder
Have you ever wondered where the flounder found in Iceland has come from? It is well known that alien European...
The brown trout of Thingvallavatn and Ölfusá
Marcos Lagunas and his collaborators from the University of Iceland and the Marine and Freshwater Institute teamed up for a...
Can we protect biodiversity with fisheries laws?
But what is biodiversity, and why do we need to protect it? „Biodiversity“, a term that we are confronted with...
The Icelandic glacier lantern fish
Have you ever wondered about all the kinds of fish are out there in the deep oceans? Have you ever...
Effects of size and temperature on cod movement
Anja Nickel and her co-authors, Dr. Steven Campana and Dr. Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir, published a paper this past summer in...
How fertiliser can harm fish
In the picture above Rakel is drilling a hole in the ice covering lake Garðsvatn in winter time. She collected...
Detecting Arctic charr spawning nests with a drone
Today I get to talk about my own paper! Last year we published an article where we introduced a method...
Let´s talk about flounder!
In a recent publication, Theresa Henke and co-authors looked at what anglers think about European flounder (Platichthys flesus). Flounder is...