Puget Sound Chum Salmon Growth Linked to Competitor Abundance, Climate Indices, and Copepod Species Richness

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Anderson, Austin J., Claiborne, Andrew M., Agha, Mickey, Litz, Marisa N. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Gulf of Alaska; Keta; Pacific; aleutian low; Beaufort Sea; Pink salmon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10323; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/tafs.10323; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/tafs.10323; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/tafs.10323

Abstract An improved understanding of the mechanisms influencing productivity of fish populations is critical for accurately determining harvest rates and identifying years of conservation concern. Here we reconstruct yearly scale growth of three Puget Sound (PS) Chum Salmon Oncorhynchus keta stocks...