THE SURVIVAL OF ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) EGGS DURING DEWATERING IN A RIVER SUBJECTED TO HYDROPEAKING

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported and carried out under the Center for Environmental Design of Renewable Energy (CEDREN) framework. The authors would like to thank Dr Iain Malcolm for his recommendations on the experimental set-up, Professor Sigurd Einum for the advice on the statistical analysis and John E. Brittain for comments and improving the language. We also thank Lundamo Camping, Lundamo hatchery and Tronder Energi for greatly facilitating fieldwork in terms of access, provision of Atlantic salmon eggs and scheduling of hydropower production, respectively. Finally, thanks to the two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions which greatly improved the manuscript.