Preliminary assessment of the environmental and selective effects of a captive breeding and rearing programme for endangered Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

• Published in: Fisheries Management and Ecology
• Main Authors: de Mestral, L. G., O'Reilly, P. T., Jones, R., Flanagan, J., Herbinger, C. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Inner Bay; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fme.12022; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Ffme.12022; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/fme.12022

Abstract The selective and environmental effects of captivity on several fitness‐correlated traits were assessed in smolts of endangered Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., from the inner Bay of Fundy, produced via artificial spawning and released into the wild as juveniles. Smolts were sampled as they...