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Filtering by: Subject Fishes -- Migration Creator Campbell, Lance A. Subject Chinook salmon -- Migration -- Columbia River Estuary (Or. and Wash.)

Life histories of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Columbia River estuary as inferred from scale and otolith microchemistry

Creator:

Campbell, Lance A.

Abstract:

Despite evidence that juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) utilize North Pacific estuaries for growth and salinity acclimation, research in the Columbia River estuary has lead to opposing hypotheses about the estuary’s importance as a salmon rearing environment. Many contemporary tagging studies indicate that salmon residency within the estuary is short...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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periods then larger late migrants. Peak migration times occurred in May, and 90% of the outmigration