Climate change threatens net energy uptake, maturation, and reproduction of Pacific Sand Lance (Ammodytes personatus) in the central Salish Sea

• Main Author: Barsh, Russel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2020
• Subjects: Fresh Water Studies; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Natural Resources and Conservation; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; San Juan; Pacific; Lopez; Killer Whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; Copepods; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2020ssec/allsessions/21; https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3079&context=ssec

Juvenile Pacific Herring and Pacific Sand Lance (PSL) are the main prey of juvenile Chinook salmon migrating seaward through the San Juan Islands. Herring and Sand Lance also dominate the diet of resident Chinook (“Blackmouth”) that undoubtedly played an important historical role in the evolution of...