River Tenojoki

The River Tenojoki Fisheries Research Station is located on the riverbank of the mighty River Teno in the municipality of Utsjoki, northernmost Finland. The station was established in 1992 to the facilities originally belonging to the border guards.

The station and its staff are responsible of the monitoring of Finnish salmon rivers flowing to Barents Sea. These watersheds include the sub-Arctic rivers Teno, Näätämö and Tuloma in northern Finland. The research staff carries out the research also on the Norwegian side of the Rivers Teno and Näätämö in close co-operation with the County Governor of Finnmark (Fylkesmannen i Finnmark).

The main research programmes conducted by the stations staff are: catch enquiries for estimation of river catch, electrofishing of salmon nursery habitats for assessment of parr densities in permanent experimental sites and collection of adult salmon scale samples to determine the sea-age distribution of the ascending salmon population and to estimate the origin of salmon (wild/reared)

Five persons are working in the station throughout the year, but during the most intense field season in June-September the research personnel are doubled.

Contact information:

Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute
Nuorgamintie 7
FI-99980 Utsjoki, Finland
Phone +358 205 7511
Fax +358 205 751 769

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