Juvenile Salmon Program Field Sampling Protocol ...

• Main Authors: Johnson, Brett T., Gan, Julian, Godwin, Sean, Bachen, Krystal, Van Der Stap, Tim C.A., Krkosek, Martin, Rogers, Luke A., Portner, Lauren, Janusson, Carly, Smyth, Dylan, Diaz, Mirko, Hunt, Brian P. V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: juvenile salmon; purse seine; environmental DNA; oceanography; field operations; British Columbia; coastal waters; migration timing; sockeye salmon; chum salmon; pink salmon; Sockeye; Fraser River; Pink salmon
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8237300; https://zenodo.org/record/8237300

The Hakai Institute Juvenile Salmon program is an ongoing initiative that was established in 2015 in partnership with the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University and Salmon Coast Field Station. This program researches the early life history of juvenile salmon in coastal British Columbia. Primary research objectives are determining: 1) Migration timing rates and routes; 2) Migration habitat, including physical and chemical oceanographic conditions, and availability of plankton prey; 3) The impacts of prey phenology, quantity and quality on juvenile salmon growth and condition; 4) Species and stock-specific feeding biology and competitive interactions; 5) Pathogen and parasite infection dynamics; and 6) Mortality estimates. The program targets Fraser River sockeye, and pink and chum salmon, but additionally provides information on coho, chinook, and herring through incidental capture. The field program operates between May and July during the peak of the juvenile sockeye ...