Trends and Factors Influencing the Length, Compensatory Growth, and Size-Selective Mortality of Juvenile Bristol Bay, Alaska, Sockeye Salmon at Sea

• Published in: Marine and Coastal Fisheries
• Main Authors: Ellen M. Yasumiishi, Ed V. Farley
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Fisheries Society 2016
• Subjects: Bay River; Bering Sea; Sockeye; Wood River; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2016.1167793

The productivity of Bristol Bay, Alaska, Sockeye Salmon Oncorhynchus nerka increased during the mid-1970s. This increase is believed to be partially due to an increase in early marine growth associated with the 1976–1977 cool-to-warm shift in summer sea surface temperature (SST). The body size of ju...