Table 2 Numbers of fish with signs of gas bubble trauma. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ssp. Bleke) originating from a landlocked population in the Otra river, were exposed to water from river Otra (Control, pH 6.5), or this water with gas supersaturation (GSS; TGP-110%), simulated environmental acidification (SEA; pH 5.5 + Al), and the combine (GSS + SEA; pH 5.5 + Al, TGP-110%), for six days. H2SO4 was used to acidify water to pH5.5; AlCl3.6H2O was diluted to obtain a nominal concentration of 67 µg [Al] l−1 for SEA. The nominal total gas pressure (TGP) in GSS was 110% in the exposure tanks, while the TGP level was 100% in treatments with no GSS.

From: No additional stress of sublethal gas supersaturation in a landlocked population of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) exposed to environmental acidification

 

Fish inspected (n)

Gas bubbles

Exophtalmia (pop eye)

Internal hemorrhage

Fish with clinical signs

Fish with uncertain signs

Control

10

0

0

0

0

1

GSS

10

9

2

0

9

0

SEA

10

0

0

0

0

0

GSS + SEA

10

6

0

0

6

2