Competition between Asian pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and Alaskan sockeye salmon (O. nerka

• Main Authors: G. T. Ruggerone, M. Zimmermann, K. W. Myers, J. L. Nielsen, D. E. Rogers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: management; marine survival; Oncorhynchus; Pacific; Bering Sea; Sockeye; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.551.2195; http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/resources/adaptingtochange/ruggeroneetalfishoceano2003.pdf

The importance of interspecific competition as a mechanism regulating population abundance in off-shore marine communities is largely unknown. We evaluated offshore competition between Asian pink salmon and Bristol Bay (Alaska) sockeye salmon, which intermingle in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering...