The Harold W. Streeter on a townetting trip in Skagit Bay
|
Project Title
Estuarine ecology of Puget Sound Chinook salmon
Description
The objective of this project is to understand the estuarine ecology of Puget Sound Chinook salmon. Through comprehensive sampling (broad spatial and temporal coverage; multiple habitats and gear types, etc.) we are documenting estuarine habitat use by juvenile Chinook, characterizing life history types and monitoring populations over time. Our main emphasis is on townet sampling of nearshore surface waters to study seasonal, geographic, and length distributions of wild and hatchery Chinook, but collaborative work includes studies of feeding ecology, growth, physiology, disease, genetics, and behavior.
NOAA Fisheries scientists sort fish, collected during a tow, aboard the Harold W. Streeter.
|
Investigators
Casey Rice and Correigh Greene
Collaborators
Eric Beamer (Skagit River System Cooperative), Kurt Fresh (Fish Ecology Division), Linda Rhodes (Resource Enhancement and Utilization Technologies Division), (Si Simenstad and Lia Stamatiou (University of Washington)
Support
NOAA Fisheries, Seattle City Light, US Army Corps of engineers, and Skagit River System Cooperative
Project Status
Several manuscripts in preparation
Watershed Home | Ecosystem Processes Home
|