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    Physical Mechanisms For Variation In Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus Gorbuscha) Survival Within The Upwelling And Downwelling Domains Of The Northeast Pacific

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    Author
    Miller, Sara Elizabeth
    Chair
    Adkison, Milo
    Committee
    Criddle, Keith
    Cokelet, Edward D. (Ned)
    Haldorson, Lewis J.
    Keyword
    Aquatic sciences
    Biological oceanography
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    Abstract
    Regional coastal conditions have a strong influence on juvenile salmon (genus Oncorhynchus) survival during their critical first months in the marine environment. Salmon survival has been thought to be favored within the downwelling domain if water column stabilities increase, whereas stability may have the opposite effect at lower latitudes. To explore this hypothesis at a local scale, we examined the relationship between stability and the characteristics of growth rate, condition, and marine survival of several stocks of pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) within Prince William Sound (PWS) and two water masses, Alaska Coastal Current and shelf, in the northern coastal Gulf of Alaska (GOA). While slower and weaker development of stratification with a deeper mixed layer depth may be more important for juvenile pink salmon survival in the Sound, earlier and stronger stratification with a shallower mixed layer depth may be more beneficial within the Gulf. As expected, stability within PWS did explain the growth rate of hatchery fish, although stability explained only a small amount of the variability and did not have the same relationship for each hatchery stock. Contrary to expectation, stability just prior to capture did not explain the variability in condition index for either hatchery or wild fish collected from within the Sound or from within either GOA water mass. When stability was below average just prior to capture within PWS, the relationship between condition index and year-class survival was positive; when stability was above-average just prior to capture, the relationship was negative. In a broader scale study, we explored the relationships between regional water column stabilities during early marine residence of pink salmon in both upwelling and downwelling domains of the northeast Pacific Ocean and marine survival rates the following year for hatchery stocks ranging from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to Kodiak Island, Alaska. Contrary to expectation, our findings were similar between the upwelling and downwelling areas, but differed by the distance offshore. Marine survival rates of hatchery pink salmon from northern and southern stooks increased for salmon that experienced below-average stability on the inner shelf (luring early marine residence while stability effects from the outer shelf showed no consistent relationship to marine survival.
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    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Dissertation
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