Ecology
section at the Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center
West Brook Pit-tag
Study on juvenile Atlantic salmon growth, survival and movement
Goal: Evaluate yearly,
seasonal and family differences in growth, survival and movement for
fish with different life histories.
Location: West Brook,
Sawmill River, MA
Personnel: Matt
O'Donnell, Todd Dubreuil, Gabe
Gries many others
Time frame: 1997-
Products:
Letcher, B.H., G.
Gries. In press. Effects of life history variation on size and
growth of stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon, J. Fish Biol.
Hendry,
A.P., B.H. Letcher and G. Gries. In press. Estimating natural
selection on stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon: implications for the restoration
of extirpated populations. Cons. Biol.
Letcher,
B.H., G. Gries and F. Juanes. 2002. Survival of stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon: effects of life
history variation, season and age. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc., 131:838-854.
Gries,
G. and B.H. Letcher. 2002. Tag retention and survival of age-0+
Atlantic salmon following surgical implantation with passive integrated
transponder tags. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc., 22:219-222.
Gries,
G., T.D. Terrick, and B.H. Letcher. 2002. A night-seining technique
to sample Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in streams. N. Amer.
J. Fish. Manag., 22:595-601.
Juanes,
F. B.H. Letcher, and G. Gries. 2000. Ecology of stream fish: insights
gained from an individual-based approach. J. Freshw. Biol., 9: 65-73.
Shorey Brook Pit-tag
Study on juvenile Atlantic salmon growth, survival and movement (Maine)
Goal: Assess yearly,
seasonal and life history effects on growth survival and movement of
stocked and wild parr
Location: Shorey
Brook, ME
Personnel: Gregg
Horton
Time frame: 2000-2005
Products:
First year of sample finished, many tagged fish
Catamaran Brook
Pit-tag Study on juvenile Atlantic salmon growth, survival and movement
Goal: Assess yearly,
seasonal and life history effects on growth survival and movement of
wild parr
Location: Catamaran
Brook, New Brunswick, CANADA
Personnel: Doug
Sigourney, Rick Cunjak
Time frame: 2000-2005
Products: Three
years of sampling finished, many tagged fish
West Brook Pit-tag
Study on brook and brown trout growth, survival and movement
Goal: Assess yearly,
seasonal, age-class and species differences in growth, survival and
movement.
Location: West Brook,
MA
Personnel: Jason
Coombs, Stephanie Carlson
Time frame: 2000-2006
Products: Three
years of sampling finished, many tagged fish
