Early Discrimination of Atlantic Salmon Smolt Age: Time Course of the Relative Effectiveness of Body Size and Shape

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Pearlstein, Jamie H., Letcher, Benjamin H., Obedzinski, Mariska
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; West Brook; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/t07-010.1; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/T07-010.1

Abstract The goal of this study was to test the relative effectiveness of morphological measurements and body size in predicting the smolt age of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and to determine the time course of body size and shape differences between smolt ages. Analyses were conducted on age‐0 to ag...