On Peculiarities of the Palana River Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) Abundance (North-West Kamchatka)

• Main Author: Victor F. Bugayev
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Body length; mm Body weight; g Age Limits Average Error Limits Average Error; Kamchatka Peninsula; Okhotsk; Pacific; Palana; Sockeye; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.627.9844; http://www.npafc.org/new/publications/Technical Report/TR4/page 70-72(Bugayev).pdf

In the basin of the Palana River, which flows into the Sea of Okhotsk at 59°06’N a large stock of sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) occurs. This stock is the third or fourth largest of this species in Asia. Reproduction and growth of this stock as juveniles occurs almost entirely in the Palana Lake basin...