Documentation of en route mortality of summer chum salmon in the Koyukuk River, Alaska and its potential linkage to the heatwave of 2019

• Main Author: Peter Westley
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity 2020
• Subjects: Migration; Pacific salmon; Prespawning mortality; Alaska; Global warming; 2019 Heatwave; Yukon; Pacific; Keta; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5063/F1G44NPH

This paper and associated dataset documents a mass en route mortality event of adult summer chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) returning to the Koyukuk River, Alaska in the Yukon River basin. In response to reports from local communities, a small team of researchers (including the author) surveyed ca....