Changes in Size and Age of Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Returning to Alaska.

The average sizes of Pacific salmon have declined in some areas in the Northeast Pacific over the past few decades, but the extent and geographic distribution of these declines in Alaska is uncertain. Here, we used regression analyses to quantify decadal trends in length and age at maturity in ten d...

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Main Authors: Bert Lewis, W Stewart Grant, Richard E Brenner, Toshihide Hamazaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4474552?pdf=render