First-Year Growth Rate of Sixes River Chinook Salmon as Inferred from Otoliths: Effects on Mortality and Age at Maturity
作者:
JohnD. Neilson,
GlenH. Geen,
期刊:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
(Taylor Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 115,
issue 1
页码: 28-33
ISSN:0002-8487
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1986)115<28:FGROSR>2.0.CO;2
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Otolith microstructure of chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha from the Sixes River, Oregon, showed the effects of first-year growth rate on subsequent growth, mortality, and maturation. Although size-selective ocean mortality was not conclusively demonstrated, the results were consistent with the view that smaller fish were removed from the population at a greater rate during oceanic or late estuarine life. On average, fish that were large relative to the rest of the cohort at entry into the estuary remained so up to the formation of the first annulus. Male chinook salmon that grew quickly in the estuary and ocean up to the formation of the first annulus matured earlier, on average.
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