Swimming capacity and behaviour of juvenile round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)

Abstract The round goby ( Neogobius melanostomus ) is an example of an invasive species where the adults are unimpressive swimmers and yet via human activities, they have managed to rapidly invade the Laurentian Great Lakes, the Baltic Sea and many rivers in Western Europe. The secondary spread from human‐impacted sites has been attributed to adult life stages, despite their poor swimming capacity. However, the swimming capacity of early life …