Canada's Species at Risk Act: An opportunity to protect "endangered" salmon

Fisheries

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 11-19

  Irvine, James R ^a   Gross, Mart R ^b,c   Wood, Chris C ^a   Holtby, L Blair ^a   Schubert, Neil D ^c   Amiro, Peter G ^d  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada ^*

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 29844433015     PISSN: 03632415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8446(2005)30[11:CSARA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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