Majority of age-3 Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Lake Ontario were wild from 1992 to 2005, based on scale pattern analysis

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-429

  Connerton, Michael J ^a,b   Murry, Brent A ^b   Ringler, Neil H ^b   Stewart, Donald J ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant function; Fishery management; Salmonidae; Scale analysis; Wild reproduction

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; SALMONIDAE; SCALE ANALYSIS; WILD REPRODUCTION;

FISH; FISHERIES; MEATS; STATISTICS;

LAKES;

AGE AT RECRUITMENT; ANNUAL REVIEW; CATCH STATISTICS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HATCHERY; MARINE RECORD; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SALMONID FISHERY; STOCKING DENSITY; TRIBUTARY; WILD POPULATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO; NORTH AMERICA;

CIRCULUS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 69249205345     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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