Hydraulic and sedimentary characteristics of habitat utilized by Atlantic salmon for spawning in the Girnock Burn, Scotland

• Published in: Fisheries Management and Ecology
• Main Authors: MOIR, H. J., SOULSBY, C., YOUNGSON, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Dee; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2400.1998.00105.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2400.1998.00105.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2400.1998.00105.x

The Girnock Burn, a tributary of the River Dee, has been used as a monitoring site for Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., populations since 1966. The burn drains a catchment of 30 km 2 and is a third order stream at the catchment outlet; its width ranges from 1 m in the headwaters to around 15 m in it...