Selected aspects of the life history of Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill) in Big Northern Pond, an acid headwater pond of the Topsail-Manuels watershed, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada

• Main Author: Baggs, Eric M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1988
• Subjects: Canada; Headwater Pond; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/4168/; https://research.library.mun.ca/4168/1/Baggs_EricM.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/4168/3/Baggs_EricM.pdf

A five-year ecological investigation into the life history of Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill) was undertaken to evaluate its growth in an acidic, dystrophic, headwater habitat and to determine the seasonal aspects of feeding, reproduction and parasitism. -- Young of the year fish were found to hatc...