Post-hydropower system delayed mortality of transported snake river stream-type Chinook salmon: Unraveling the mystery

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1523-1534

  Muir, William D ^a   Marsh, Douglas M ^a   Sandford, Benjamin P ^a   Smith, Steven G ^a   Williams, John G ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MORTALITY; PREDATOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SIZE SELECTION; SMOLT; SURVIVAL;

BONNEVILLE DAM; LOWER GRANITE DAM; NORTH AMERICA; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

MERLUCCIUS PRODUCTUS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PTYCHOCHEILUS OREGONENSIS;

EID: 34247610068     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-049.1     Document Type: Article

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