Microsatellite Identification of Canadian Sockeye Salmon Rearing in the Bering Sea

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Beacham, Terry D., Candy, John R., Porszt, Erin, Sato, Shunpei, Urawa, Shigehiko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Canada; British Columbia; Sockeye; Skeena; Skeena River; Stikine; Fraser River; Stikine River; Alsek River; Babine Lake; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2011.567843; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00028487.2011.567843

Abstract The stock composition of sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka caught in the central Bering Sea in the summer of 2009 was estimated to evaluate migration patterns of salmon of Canadian origin, which have not been demonstrated previously to rear in the Bering Sea. The variation at 14 microsatell...