between Early Marine Growth of Juvenile Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon, Subsequent Marine Survival, and Ocean Conditions

• Main Authors: Edward V. Farley, James M. Murphy, Milo D. Adkison, Lisa B. Eisner, John H. Helle, Jamal H. Moss, Jennifer L. Nielsen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Early marine growth; survival; scale; sockeye salmon; Bristol Bay; ecosystem change; Bering Sea; Sockeye; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.552.4298; http://www.npafc.org/new/publications/Technical Report/TR6/page 46(Farley).pdf

Bristol Bay sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) from the eastern Bering Sea were used to test the critical-size, critical-period hypothesis (Beamish and Mahnken 2001; Beamish et al. 2004). We examined a time series (42 years) of survival (brood year return per spawner from the Kvichak and Egegik riv...