A matter of timing: The role of ocean conditions in the initiation of spawning migration by late-run Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-65

  Thomson, Richard E ^a   Hourston, Roy A S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fraser River; Northeast Pacific; Oceanic currents; Physiological change; Regressional analysis; Salinity; Salmon spawning migration; Sockeye salmon

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MATURATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; OCEANIC CURRENT; OSMOREGULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SALMONID; SPAWNING GROUND; STOCK ASSESSMENT; WIND STRESS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER RIVER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 78650056772     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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