Invertebrate Phenology and Prey Selection of Three Sympatric Species of Salmonids; Implications for Individual Fish Growth

• Main Author: Ojala, Jeffrey V
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2008
• Subjects: Freshwater ecology; West Brook; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/97; https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=theses

Growth plays an important roll in the survival of individual salmonid fish. Diet inevitably plays a significant role in the determination of salmonid growth, with these diets consisting primarily of aquatic macroinvertebrates, predominately insect taxa. Aquatic insects have a complex life history wi...