The NL fish population scan: monitoring fish populations using an eDNA approach

“The Water Framework Directive (WFD) obliges water authorities to carry out periodic monitoring of fish populations. New techniques on the basis of environmental DNA (eDNA) potentially form good and more cost efficient alternatives for the monitoring of the fish species composition. In this article results of a newly developed application ‘The NL Fish Population Scan (NL Vispopulatiescan) are presented”

(Citaat: van der Kamp, M., Beers, M., Hootsmans, M.J.M., Wullings, B.A. – The NL fish population scan: monitoring fish populations using an eDNA approach – Water Matters (2018)1)