Growth of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) correlated with sea-surface salinity in the North Pacific

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Morita, Shoko H., Morita, Kentaro, Sakano, Hiroyuki
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2001
• Subjects: Regular Articles; Arctic; Pacific; Keta; aleutian low
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/58/6/1335; https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.2001.1116

The average adult size-at-return of North Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus spp.) has decreased since the 1970s and several hypotheses regarding the cause of this decrease have been proposed. These have included fishing pressure, change of sea-surface temperature (SST) and density-dependence. This paper...