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Title: Study of Disease and Physiology in the 1979 Homing Study Hatchery Stocks: A Supplement to "Imprinting Salmon and Steelhead Trout for Homing", 1979 by Slatick, Gilbreath, and Walch.

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/912881· OSTI ID:912881

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), under contract to the Bonneville Power Administration, is conducting research on imprinting salmon and steelhead for homing (Slatick et al. 1979, 1980; Novotny and Zaugg 1979). The studies were begun with little background knowledge of the effects of disease or certain physiological functions on imprinting and homing in salmonids. Consequently, work aimed at filling this void was begun by the authors in 1978 (Novotny and Zaugg 1979) and continued in 1979. In 1979, we examined random samples of normal populations of homing test fish at the hatcheries to determine the physiological readiness to migrate and adapt to seawater and general fish health. At the Manchester Marine Experimental Station, Manchester, Washington, we determined the survival of samples of the test fish maintained in marine net-pens after release from the hatcheries. Hatcheries and stocks sampled are listed in Table 1.

Research Organization:
Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Center (U.S.). Coastal Zone and Estuarine Studies Division.; United States. National Marine Fisheries Service.
Sponsoring Organization:
United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
DOE Contract Number:
1979BP10682
OSTI ID:
912881
Report Number(s):
DOE/BP-0022; R&D Project: 1978-001-00; TRN: US200802%%425
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English