Chinook Radiotelemtry Project: Skeena River 2010

In 2010 we carried out the first watershed-wide radiotelemetry project for Chinook salmon in the Skeena River. Our objectives were to tag Chinook and trace them to their spawning sites, determine the effectiveness of the latest Skeena Chinook microsatellite DNA baseline in predicting travel to known stock spawning zones, and to develop information on Chinook populations in the upper Skeena.

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Skeena Watershed Initiative

Between 2008 and 2011, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Province of BC, local First Nations, commercial and recreational fishing interests, and watershed based conservation organizations worked to explore ways to implement Canada’s Wild Salmon...

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Author Gottesfeld, A.S., Doire, J. and K. English
Maintainer Skeena Watershed Initiative
Last Updated July 19, 2022, 20:55 (UTC)
Created May 31, 2017, 21:41 (UTC)
publication_yr 2010