Mechanism and Occurrence of Focal Scale Resorption among Chum Salmon ( Oncorhynchus keta) of the North Pacific Ocean

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Author: Bigler, Brian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1989
• Subjects: Keta; Pacific; Sockeye; Pink salmon; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f89-149; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f89-149

A recently documented scale characteristic of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) originating from Hokkaido, Japan, has been found distributed almost exclusively among stocks of Asian origin. Scales from 10 544 chum salmon collected from 25 near-shore locations throughout the North Pacific Ocean were ex...