Université du Québec en Outaouais
Postdoctoral fellow candidate
Supervisor: Katrine Turgeon
Marc Amyot, Unisersité de Montréal
Start: 2025-04-29
End: 2026-04-28

Project

Effect of growth on mercury concentrations in fish around hydroelectric infrastructures
The project aims to better understand the effect of fish growth on mercury bioaccumulation, at individual and population scales, in highly modified areas (hydroelectric infrastructures). The objective is also to assess possible alterations on fish community.

Publications

1- Time-dependent biological responses of juvenile yellow perch (Perca flavescens) exposed in situ to a major urban effluent
Defo, Michel A., Laurie Mercier, Conrad Beauvais, Robert B. Brua, Gerald Tétreault, Anthony Fontaine, Patrice Couture, Jonathan Verreault, Magali Houde
2021 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

2- Assessing the impacts of mining activities on fish health in Northern Québec
Fontaine, Anthony, Mackenzie Anne Clifford Martyniuk, Camille Garnier, Patrice Couture
2023 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

3- Freshwater fish otoliths record signals from both water and physiological processes: new insights from Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios
Bareille, G., M. Vignon, A. Chappaz, A. Fontaine, H. Tabouret, F. Morat, J. Martin, J.C. Aymes, F. Daverat, C. Pécheyran, O. Donard
2024 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

4- Unsupervised estimation of the age at sea departure of Atlantic salmon using magnesium, manganese, and zinc otolith chemistry
Fontaine, Anthony, Matthias Vignon, Hélène Tabouret, Christophe Pécheyran, Gilles Bareille
2024 Journal of Fish Biology

5- Inter-annual dispersal stability within the Atlantic salmon metapopulation from the Bay of Biscay
Fontaine, A., M. Vignon, H. Tabouret, A. Holub, G. Barranco, S. Bosc, I. Caux, D.J. Nachón, J. Elso, P. Caballero, C. Pécheyran, G. Bareille
2025 Fisheries Research