Radio tracking chinook salmon to determine migration delay at Whitehorse Rapids Dam / by T.R. Cleugh and L.R. Russell.: Fs97-4/1459E-PDF

"Migration pattern of radio-tagged adult chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) were monitored during August, 1979 in the upper Yukon River, Yukon Territory. Escapement, migration pattern, travel time, spawning areas, and delays caused by the hydroelectric facilities and physical obstructions were assessed. Eleven hundred and eighty-four chinook salmon migrated through the Whitehorse Rapids Fishway in August, 1979 and twenty-one fish were radio-tagged. Migrating salmon used both sides of the river and the hydro facilities and physical obstructions resulted in some delay in upstream migration. The minimum and maximum observed delay which occurred at the hydro facilities was 10 hours and 9 days respectively, with a mean delay of 3 days; average delay through the fishway was 7 hours. Fifteen tagged fish were located on the spawning ground"--Abstract, page iv.

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Department/Agency Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service, issuing body.
Canada. Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Pacific Region. Habitat Protection Division, issuing body.
Title Radio tracking chinook salmon to determine migration delay at Whitehorse Rapids Dam / by T.R. Cleugh and L.R. Russell.
Series title Fisheries and Marine Service manuscript report, 0701-7618 ; no. 1459
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) ISSN of series supplied from ISSN Portal.
Digitized edition from print [produced by Department of Fisheries and Oceans].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-32).
Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information Vancouver, B.C. : Habitat Protection Division, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, October 1980.
©1980
Author / Contributor Cleugh, T. R., author.
Description 1 online resource (v, 43 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Catalogue number
  • Fs97-4/1459E-PDF
Subject terms Chinook salmon -- Radio tracking -- Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Chinook salmon -- Migration -- Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Chinook salmon -- Effect of dams on -- Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Saumon quinnat -- Radiopistage -- Yukon, Fleuve (Yukon et Alaska)
Saumon quinnat -- Migration -- Yukon, Fleuve (Yukon et Alaska)
Saumon quinnat -- Effets des barrages sur -- Yukon, Fleuve (Yukon et Alaska)
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