Contrasting patterns in growth and survival of Central Valley fall run Chinook salmon related to hatchery and ocean conditions

• Published in: Environmental biology of fishes Vol. 99; no. 12; pp. 949 - 967
• Main Authors: Sabal, Megan C., Huff, David D., Henderson, Mark J., Fiechter, Jerome, Harding, Jeffrey A., Hayes, Sean A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal populations; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Bacillariophyceae; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Environment; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Life Sciences; Marine; Mortality; Nature Conservation; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; Physical growth; Population density; Salmon; Salmonidae; Survival; Survival analysis; Zoology; Zooplankton; INE, Pacific, California Current; USA, California, Central Valley; Size-selective mortality; California; Growth; Chinook salmon; Survival; Density-dependence

The objective of this study was to determine important ocean and hatchery covariates influencing early growth and survival of Central Valley fall run Chinook salmon. We used a dataset of recaptured coded wire tagged hatchery Chinook salmon to estimate early growth and cohort survival. Ocean conditio...