Abundance, stock origin, and length of marked and unmarked juvenile Chinook salmon in the surface waters of greater Puget Sound

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 170-189

  Rice, Casimir A ^a   Greene, Correigh M ^b   Moran, Paul ^b   Teel, David J ^b   Kuligowski, David R ^b   Reisenbichler, Reginald R ^c   Beamer, Eric M ^d   Karr, James R ^e   Fresh, Kurt L ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Skagit River System Cooperative   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HATCHING; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REARING; SALMONID; SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WILD POPULATION;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 79956338583     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2010.550253     Document Type: Article

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