Fishway passage and post-passage mortality of up-river migrating sockeye salmon in the Seton River, British Columbia

River Research and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 693-705

  Roscoe, D W ^a   Hinch, S G ^a   Cooke, S J ^b   Patterson, D A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fishway; Migration; Mortality; Sockeye salmon; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALMONID FISHERY; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; SETON RIVER;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 79959418065     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1384     Document Type: Article

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