Using radiocesium (137Cs) to measure and compare the bioenergetic budgets of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the field

• Main Author: Tucker, Strahan.
• Other Authors: Rasmussen, J. B. (advisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1998
• Subjects: Atlantic salmon > Food > Québec (Province) > Sainte-Marguerite River; Atlantic salmon > Québec (Province) > Sainte-Marguerite River > Growth; Brook trout > Food > Québec (Province) > Sainte-Marguerite River; Brook trout > Québec (Province) > Sainte-Marguerite River > Growth; Marguerite; Marguerite River; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20883

Through the 137Cs mass balance method, annual consumption rates were estimated for juvenile Atlantic salmon parr and precocious males, as well as brook trout from 4 sites within the Ste Marguerite river system, Quebec. With explicit age analysis, feeding rates and growth rates were derived on an ind...