Evaluation of growth and migration trends on the survival and recruitment of chinook salmon in Southeastern Alaska rivers

• Main Author: Berkman, Stephanie
• Other Authors: Sutton, Trent, Adkison, Milo, Mueter, Franz
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Chinook salmon; Alaska; Southeast; Growth; Migration; Chinook salmon fisheries; Chilkat River; Fairbanks; Pacific; Stikine; Stikine River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8111

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017 Highly variable recruitment and declines in productivity and abundance of Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha have created economic and cultural hardships for communities throughout Alaska. Although pre- and post-smolt growth are important for d...