Discrimination of Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead redds and evaluation of the use of redd data for estimating escapement in several unregulated streams in northern California

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 284-300

  Gallagher, Sean P ^a   Gallagher, Colin M ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCAPEMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NEST SITE; SALMONID;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 15944362761     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M04-016.1     Document Type: Article

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