Microtrolling: an Economical Method to Nonlethally Sample and Tag Juvenile Pacific Salmon at Sea

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Duguid, William D. P., Juanes, Francis
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Pacific Salmon Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Pacific; Keta; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2016.1256835; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00028487.2016.1256835

Abstract Mortality of juvenile Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. in their first marine year is hypothesized to be a primary driver of variable recruitment in a changing ocean. Much contemporary research focuses on diet, distribution, growth, and survival during this period; however, existing methods...