In preparation for a legal implementation of EU-regulation 1829/2003, the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) has been requested by the Norwegian Environment Agency (former Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management) and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) to conduct final food/feed and environmental risk assessments for all genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and ...

Wild Atlantic cod of commercial size (1.9 ± 0.5 kg) were swum to exhaustion in a large swim tunnel in an attempt to mimic the initial stage of trawling, when fish swim at the trawl mouth until they fatigue or lose interest and subsequently drop into the trawl. The objective of the study was to investigate if exhaustive swimming in unstressed cod had any negative effects on fillet quality, and if ...

Brucella pinnipedialis was first isolated from true seals in 1994 and from eared seals in 2008. Although few pathological findings have been associated with infection in true seals, reproductive pathology including abortions, and the isolation of the zoonotic strain type 27 have been documented in eared seals. <br> In this study, a Brucella enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the Rose ...

Understanding the present state and possible future scenarios of Arctic Ocean primary productivity has been hampered by the scarcity of year-round nutrient measurements. Here, the first year-long moored timeseries of near-surface nitrate concentrations in the Eastern Arctic, together with hydrography, currents and chlorophyll-a fluorescence, is reported from ...

During the N-ICE2015 drift expedition north-west of Svalbard, we observed the establishment and development of algal communities in first-year ice (FYI) ridges and at the snow-ice interface. Despite some indications of being hot spots for biological activity, ridges are under-studied largely because they are complex structures that are difficult to sample. Snow infiltration communities can grow at ...

Knowledge of the complete horizontal migration and vertical movements of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) during the marine phase is important for understanding the link between individual processes and population recruitment. We studied the detailed migration behaviour of six post-spawned adult Atlantic salmon from a North Norwegian river, during the entire ocean migration, by using high-resolution ...

Climate change is occurring across the world, with effects varying by ecosystem and region but already occurring quickly in high-latitude and high-altitude regions. Biotic interactions are important in determining ecosystem response to such changes, but few studies have been long- term in nature, especially in the High Arctic. Mesic tundra plots on Svalbard, Norway, were subjected to grazing at ...

The effect of variable autumn temperatures in combination with decreasing irradiance and daylength on photosynthesis, growth cessation and freezing tolerance was investigated in northern- and southern3 adapted populations of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and timothy (Phleum pratense L.) intended for use in regions at northern high latitudes. Plants were subjected to three different acclimation ...

Benthic invertebrate communities play a fundamental role in lake ecosystems, and the understanding of how those benthic communities are structured, particularly in terms of the identity and spatiotemporal distribution of their functional traits, is key to our understanding of how lake ecosystems work. In Takvatn, a subarctic lake in northern Norway, we identified the taxonomic and functional identity ...

<b>Background:</b> Brucellosis is the most common zoonotic infections in pastoral settings. Lack of knowledge about the disease may cause devastating out come to the patients, thus sustained it in such communities. This study assessed knowledge and practices among high-risk groups in Bahr el Ghazal region, South Sudan. <br><b>Methods:</b> Across sectional survey involving abattoir workers, febrile ...