Food Habits of Juvenile Salmon in the Gulf of Alaska July-August 1996

• Main Authors: Mary E. Auburn, Steve E. Ignell
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Competition; diet; chum; coho; pink; sockeye; prey. Abstract; Four species of juvenile salmon; Gulf of Alaska; Ketal; Sockeye; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.371.5520; http://www.npafc.org/new/publications/Bulletin/Bulletin No. 2/pages 89-97(Auburn).PDF

pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), sockeye (0. nerka), chum (0. ketal, and coho (0. kisutch) salmon, were collected during July and August, 1996, using a midwater trawl in near surface waters of the Gulf of Alaska from Southeast Alaska to the Alaska Peninsula. Stomach contents of these salmon were exami...