Description
This is an acoustic telemetry dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal (fish) tracking data collected by the Permanent Belgian Acoustic Receiver Network (https://lifewatch.be/en/fish-acoustic-receiver-network) for the project/study 2013_albertkanaal, using VEMCO tags (V7, V9, V13) and receivers (VR2AR, VR2Tx, VR2W). In total 161 female individuals of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and 134 (hatched) smolts of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were captured, tagged and released between 2013 and 2017, to study the effect of shipping locks and hydropower plants on their downstream migration in the Albert canal.
Navigation locks play an important role for ship navigation on canals and other regulated waterways worldwide. Unfortunately, these structures may severely impact the aquatic ecosystem and freshwater fish in particular. In Belgium (Europe), the Albert canal connecting the Meuse river to the Scheldt river, is an important migration route for European eel (critically endangered) and Atlantic salmon (vulnerable). During their downstream migration these fish are hampered by six subsequent navigation lock complexes present in the canal. Three of which are by-passed by a small channel leading to a hydropower plant with large Archimedes screw turbines. In the coming years, three more such hydropower plants are to be installed next to three of six ship lock complexes. The Archimedes screws function both as pump and turbine (hydropower generator). Two dimensional fine scale positioning, as well as impact assessment through assessment of fish injury and mortality at the Archimedes screws, was performed to better understand the overall impact of these anthropogenic structures on diadromous fish, such as eel and salmon.
This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by VLIZ and INBO funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch. The study was commissioned by the Vlaamse Waterweg NV.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the etn package and are downsampled to the first detection per hour. The original data are managed in the European Tracking Network data platform (https://lifewatch.be/etn/) and are available in Baeyens et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.14284/431).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 161,894 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Baeyens R, Vergeynst J, De Maerteleire N, Desmet P, Gelaude E, Milotic T, Mouton A, Pauwels I, Pieters S, Reyserhove L, Robberecht K, Verhelst P, Coeck J (2024). 2013_ALBERTKANAAL - Acoustic telemetry data for European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and hatched Salmon (Salmo salar) in the Albert canal (Belgium). Version 1.1. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.14284/431
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 47360f99-2f92-4e48-9898-1e4976d09d71. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Acoustic telemetry; Acoustic Telemetry; animal movement; animal tracking; biologging; hydropower; impact assessment; LifeWatch; migration barriers; shipping canals; VEMCO; Migration; Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
ANE, Western Scheldt (http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4752); Belgium, Albert Canal (http://marineregions.org/mrgid/19679); Belgium, Flanders (http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2469); Belgium, Meuse Basin (http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2555); Belgium, Zeeschelde, Antwerp Harbour (http://marineregions.org/mrgid/5481).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [48.57, -2.093], North East [60.123, 5.996] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Species | Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758), Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2013-10-18 / 2019-05-10 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 47360f99-2f92-4e48-9898-1e4976d09d71 |
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| https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=2013_albertkanaal |