Elemental signatures in bone to determine life history characteristics in fish.

• Other Authors: Clarke, Adrian D. (Author), Shrimpton, Mark (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Northern British Columbia 2005
• Subjects: Fish tagging > Study and teaching > British Columbia; Northern; Fisheries > Research > British Columbia; Smelts > British Columbia; Bull trout > British Columbia > Morice River Watershed; Sculpins > British Columbia > Williston Reservoir; SH156.8 .C53 2004; Morice River; Cottus cognatus; Slimy sculpin
• Online Access: https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A15745; https://doi.org/10.24124/2005/bpgub343

We used Laser-Ablation-Inductively-Coupled-Plasma-Mass-Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to determine if trace metals deposited in calcified structures could be used to infer the life histories of three different species of fish. We were successful in resolving the movements and age at maturity for an anadro...