• Movements of female lumpsucker Cyclopterus lumpus in a Norwegian fjord during the spawning period 

      Mitamura, Hiromichi; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Uglem, Ingebrigt; Bjørn, Pål Arne; Økland, Finn; Næsje, Tor; Dempster, Tim; Arai, Nobuaki (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2007)
      Lumpsucker are distributed throughout the North Atlantic Ocean, and migrate considerable distances between offshore feeding areas and shallow inshore spawning areas. In July 2006, a study on the movements of female lumpsucker during the spawning period was carried out in Øksfjord, Northern Norway. Twenty fish (mean body mass 3.2 kg, range 1.5- 4.8 kg) were tagged with acoustic transmitters and ...