Water velocity, turbulence, and migration rate of subyearling fall Chinook salmon in the free-flowing and impounded Snake River

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 373-384

  Tiffan, Kenneth F ^a   Kock, Tobias J ^a   Haskell, Craig A ^a   Connor, William P ^b   Steinhorst, R Kirk ^c  

^a WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Idaho Fishery Resource Office   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CROSS SECTION; JUVENILE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 79955081759     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-051.1     Document Type: Article

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