Regulation of the fitness of altantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) by intra-specific competition amongst the juveniles

• Main Author: R. John Gibson
• Language: English
• Published: Freshwater Biological Assoication 2010
• Subjects: atlantic salmon; Salmo salar; juveniles; fitness; Chadwick; Metcalfe; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://www.fba.org.uk/journals/index.php/FF/article/view/250

Wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) have declined considerably throughouttheir range, principally through loss and degradation of their freshwaterhabitat, with concomitant overfishing of the remaining stocks(Netboy 1968, 1980; Watt 1989). Marine survival varies, and is hypothesisedto depend on greate...