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Authors
Simmons, Olivia
Thorsteinsson, Margrét
Ólafsdóttir, Guðbjörg Ásta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2814-9160
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Umhverfissjóður sjókvíaeldis
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Article History
Received: 17 January 2019
Revised: 29 August 2019
Accepted: 13 September 2019
First Online: 25 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The sampling was licensed by the Directorate of Fisheries and permission was obtained from relevant landowners. Gillnetting for ecological sampling with lethal endpoints does not require a licence from the Committee of Animal Welfare by Icelandic Law, but animal welfare was considered by frequent monitoring of gill-nets, release of bycatch and humane endpoints of salmonids.
