Downstream Migrations of Juvenile Salmon and Other Fishes in the Upper Yukon River

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Bradford, Michael J., Duncan, Jake, Jang, Jean W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Yukon River; migration; chinook salmon; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; chum salmon; Oncorhynchus keta; whitefish; Coregonus spp; Prosopium spp; inconnu; Stenodus leucichthys; arctic lamprey; Lampetra camtschatica; arctic grayling; Thymallus arcticus; fleuve Yukon; saumon quinnat; saumon kéta; cisco; lamproie arctique; ombre arctique; Arctic; Canada; Fleuve Yukon; Keta; Yukon; Arctic grayling; Arctique*; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63093

The Yukon River is the fourth largest river in North America, yet the ecology of its fishes has not been well described. During the spring and summer of 2002– 04, we sampled the downstream migrations of fishes in the Yukon River mainstem near the Canada-U.S. border, using a rotary auger trap. Age-0...