Contact
Magnus Dahlberg, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Analyst
Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater Research, SLU
magnus.dahlberg@slu.se, +46 10 478 42 22
Biological archive
Last changed: 18 February 2025
At the Institute of Freshwater Research at Drottningholm, we have a biological archive that is constantly being updated. Every year we collect new tissue samples from fish, which we then use to analyze age and growth. We also perform kinship analyses and chemical analyses. The tissues help us answer questions about fish populations in lakes and rivers and how they change over time.
In our biological archive we store more than a million samples, the oldest of which date back to the beginning of the 20th century. Each new individual sample is digitized and handled according to our quality assurance procedures. We then place the samples in a fireproof archive.
Questions and inquiries about the biological archive
The samples in our biological archive can be used in various projects - both by researchers and environmental analysts at SLU and by other external contractors. Contact us if you have any questions about the biological archive.