High egg retention in <scp>Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha </scp> carcasses sampled downstream of a migratory barrier

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Twardek, William M., Lapointe, Nicolas W. R., Cooke, Steven J.
• Other Authors: Canadian Wildlife Federation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Pacific Salmon Foundation, W. Garfield Weston Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Yukon; Teslin; Teslin River; Whitehorse; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14985; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jfb.14985; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/jfb.14985

Abstract Barriers in rivers have the potential to severely decrease functional connectivity between habitats. Failure to pass barriers and reach natal spawning habitat may compromise individual reproductive success, particularly for semelparous, philopatric species that rely on free‐flowing rivers t...