Institute of Freshwater Research
Status : Research Institute belonging to the Swedish
National Board of Fisheries, i.e. a governmental body falling under the
Swedish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.
HQ (Gothenburg): http://www.fiskeriverket.se/
,
The Institute:
http://www.fiskeriverket.se/laboratorier/sotvatten/start.htm
Number and list of laboratories, units, departments ,... interested
in Diadfish:
The Institute of Freshwater Research (Drottningholm), local office in
Örebro and its field-station SEL (The Laboratory of Stream Water
Ecology) in Älvkarleby.
Institute of Freshwater Research (Drottningholm,
Örebro and Älvkarleby)
http://www.fiskeriverket.se/ (mostly
in Swedish),
http://www.fiskeriverket.se/laboratorier/sotvatten/start.htm
(concerning the Institute) www.fiskeriverket.se/pdf/om_fiskeriverket/engelsk.pdf
(information in English)
Location: Drottningholm (suburb to Stockholm), Örebro
(160 km V of Stockholm) and Älvkarleby (140 km NNV of Stockholm).
Head: Torbjörn JÄRVI
Research themes :
- Diadromous populations (ecology, dynamics, management, conservation,
monitoring and genetics)
Annual budget: 3.7 million € in total of which
roughly 2.1 million € refers to the work on diadromous fish species
Contact for Diadfish: Torbjörn JÄRVI (torbjorn.jarvi@fiskeriverket.se)
and Håkan WICKSTRÖM (mailto:hakan.wickstrom@fiskeriverket.se)
Scientists staff:
| Name |
Thematic |
Status |
|
Torbjörn JÄRVI |
Salmon and trout ecology and genetics, eel incl. |
Director of the Institute |
|
Erik PETERSSON |
Salmon and trout ecology |
Senior scientist/Deputy director |
|
Per NYBERG |
Management of salmonid stocks |
Senior scientist |
|
Mårten ÅSTRÖM |
Modelling |
Senior Scientist |
|
Lars KARLSSON |
Salmon and trout ecology, management |
Senior scientist |
|
Håkan WICKSTRÖM |
Eel ecology and management |
Senior scientist |
|
Johan HAMMAR |
Arctic char management (incl. also anadromous populations
in the Arctic region) |
Senior scientist |
|
Erik DEGERMAN |
Resource monitoring, incl. electro-fishing data on
salmonids and eel |
Research scientist |
|
Jonas DAHL |
Salmon and trout ecology, incl. behaviour |
Research scientist |
|
Björn BERGQUIST |
Environmental monitoring, salmonids in streams |
Research scientist |
|
Jan Eric NATHANSON |
Red listed species, e.g. sturgeon and lamprey species |
Research scientist |
|
Leif JOHANSSON |
Population genetics (e.g. European eel) |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Niklas SJÖBERG |
Eel migration |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Patrik CLEVESTAM |
Eel ecology, ageing |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Maja REIZENSTEIN |
Ageing of eel |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Anna-Carin LÖF |
Salmonid ecology, ageing |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Berit SERS |
Resource monitoring, , electro-fishing data, data bases |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Ingrid HOLMGREN |
Ageing of salmon and trout |
Engineer/Technician |
|
Olof FILIPSSON |
Ageing of salmonids |
Engineer/Technician (retired) |
Scientists in contract:
| Name |
Thematic |
status |
|
Susanna PAKKASMAA |
Ecological effects from the introduction of “exotic”
species incl. salmonids and eel |
Research Scientist |
|
Jonas PETTERSSON |
Development of fish as indicators of “good status”
according to the Water Framework Directive |
Research Scientist |
PhD students:
| Name |
Thematic |
University |
|
Johan DANNEWITZ |
Population genetics (e.g. European eel) |
Uppsala |
Technician staff:
About 6 involved (at least partly) in work on diadromous species
Specialist facilities
- two research vessels are available within the organisation
(Swedish National Board of Fisheries), however they are mainly used
by the Institute of Marine Research (Lysekil)
- experimental facilities in Älvkarleby; an experimental
brook (120 m), an enclosed area of River Dalälven (400 m), a large
indoor flow tank and a number of tanks and basins of different sizes.
- Aquaculture facilities (for salmonids) at both Älvkarleby
and Kälarne (Northern Sweden).
- a flexible technological hall in Drottningholm were
fish can be kept and raised in a number of basins and tanks fed with
freshwater at different temperatures
- a number of outdoor ponds in Drottningholm fed with
water from Lake Mälaren
- a Fish Ageing laboratory, mainly dealing with perch,
roach, pikeperch, whitefish, eel etc (using e.g. a sawing technique
when preparing thin sections from otoliths)
- a Fish Genetics laboratory, using microsatellite
and mitochondrial DNA markers to study the population genetic structure
of different fish and crayfish species. We also use molecular markers
to access parentage in experimental studies of domestication effects
in salmonid fish. We have adopted the latest technology within this
field and have a yearly genotyping capacity of approximately 70.000
genotypes.
- A national responsibility for several data bases
on recruitment, fish communities in lakes, in streams etc., with reference
to the Water Framework Directive and to e.g. the EG-Project FAME.
- Descriptive and experimental work in full scale in lakes and streams
on e.g. the effect and importance of introduced fish and food organisms.
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