Documentation of en route mortality of summer chum salmon in the Koyukuk River, Alaska and its potential linkage to the heatwave of 2019

• Main Author: Westley, Peter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: KNB Data Repository 2020
• Subjects: Migration; Pacific salmon; Prespawning mortality; Alaska; Global warming; 2019 Heatwave; Keta; Pacific; Yukon; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5063/f1g44nph; https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/F1G44NPH

This paper and associated dataset documents a mass en route mortality event of adult summer chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) returning to the Koyukuk River, Alaska in the Yukon River basin. In response to reports from local communities, a small team of researchers (including the author) surveyed ca....