Migration and growth potential of coho salmon smolts: Implications for ecological impacts from growth-enhanced fish

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1372-1383

  Fredrik Sundstrom L ^a,b   Lõhmus, Mare ^a   Devlin, Robert H ^a  

^a Fisheries and Oceans Canada   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

British columbia; Canada; Coho salmon; Genetically modified; Growth hormone; Migration; Oncorhynchus kisutch; Risk assessment; Transgenic; Wild type genes

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GENE; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHERY; HORMONE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; REARING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONID; SEASON; SIZE EFFECT; STREAMFLOW; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ECOLOGY; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

EID: 77954333517     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0631.1     Document Type: Article

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