Iteroparity in Columbia River summer-run steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss): Implications for conservation

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2592-2605

  Keefer, Matthew L ^a   Wertheimer, Robert H ^b   Evans, Allen F ^c   Boggs, Charles T ^a   Peery, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

^c Real Time Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY; MATURATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; SALMONID; SPAWNING; TAGGING; ULTRASONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; COLOMBIAN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 58149100314     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-160     Document Type: Article

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