Timing of Adult Migration and Stock Structure for Sockeye Salmon in Bear Lake, Alaska

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Boatright, Chris, Quinn, Thomas, Hilborn, Ray
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Bering Sea; Sockeye; Low Point; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/t03-142.1; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/T03-142.1; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1577/T03-142.1; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/T03-142.1

Abstract Sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka returning to the Bear Lake system on the Alaska Peninsula exhibit a bimodal pattern of adult spawning migration timing produced by early and late migrants. We examined, by field observation of tagged adults, the relationship between adult migration date, br...