SGFR(12)8 Current inventory and status of samples taken for SALSEA North America and SALSEA Greenland

• Main Author: Salsea North America
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.431.7240; http://www.nasco.int/sas/pdf/archive/papers/2013/SGFR_12_8.pdf

total of 47 stations were surveyed in 2008 with a surface trawl and 21 stations were surveyed in 2009 (14 surface trawls and 7 surface gillnet sets). A total of 107 salmon were captured and biological data and samples are available from 85 fish. Data collected include fish origin, biological characteristics, sex, scale loss, information on external parasites, presence of external tags or finclips and a variety of biological samples to support further investigations into the health of salmon captured. Sheehan et al. 2012 provided a comprehensive summary of the surveys and catch results including oceanographic conditions and bycatch at each station sampled. However, there is scope for further investigation on the samples and data collected as many samples remain unprocessed. Biological characteristics data are available for all fish sampled. Data are available on conductivity, temperature and depth profiles collected at select stations surveyed and bycatch data at each station surveyed. A small number of sea lice samples were preserved and are being processed to support various genetics studies. All fish were of North American origin, however finer than continent of origin determinations were not conducted. Scales were collected for ageing although more detailed