Tracking Fish Movements and Survival on the Northeast Pacific Shelf

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-290

  Payne, John ^a   Andrews, Kelly ^b   Chittenden, Cedar ^c   Crossin, Glenn ^d   Goetz, Fred ^e   Hinch, Scott ^d   Levin, Phil ^b   Lindley, Steve ^f   Mckinley, Scott ^d   Melnychuk, Michael ^d   Nelson, Troy ^g   Rechisky, Erin ^d   Welch, David ^h  

^a VANCOUVER AQUARIUM   (Canada)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society   (Canada)

^h Kintama Research Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic tracking in context of other technologies; Movement and survival data value; Oceans present and animal movements; Osmoregulation experiment; Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST) one of the 14 field projects of Census of Marine Life; POST technology and history; POST's mission, facilitating an acoustic telemetry network along entire length of west coast of North America; POST, study of 18 species including salmon, salmon sharks, two species of squid, rockfish, ling, white sturgeon and English sole; Salmon, culturally and economically important on Pacific Northwest coast of North America; Tracking fish movements and survival on Northeast Pacific shelf

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886555919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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