Record Details
Umpqua Coho Salmon Genetic Pedigree
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Umpqua Coho Salmon Genetic Pedigree |
| Names |
Banks, Michael A.
(creator) Blouin, Michael S. (creator) Moyer, Gregory R. (creator) Theriault, Veronique (creator) Whitcomb, Amelia (creator) Loomis, David (creator) Jackson, Laura S. (creator) |
| Date Issued | 2013-05-08 (iso8601) |
| Note | Suggested citation: "Blouin, Michael S.; Banks, Michael A.; Moyer, Gregory R.; Theriault, Veronique; Whitcomb, Amelia; Loomis, David; Jackson, Laura S. (2013): Umpqua Coho Salmon Genetic Pedigree. Oregon State University Libraries. Dataset. doi:10.7267/N9H41PB9." |
| Abstract | Data, pedigrees, reports and manuscripts herein are from an investigation conducted with coho salmon of the Umpqua River in southern Oregon from 2001-2009. They relate to a study investigating several areas of uncertainty about the use of salmon hatcheries to increase the abundance of wild populations. At that time, there was considerable interest in using hatcheries to speed the recovery of wild populations. However the value of such an approach was untested. Substantial literature indicated that hatchery programs may pose high risks to wild populations, rather than aid them (see the following reviews: Hindar et al 1991, Waples 1991, Waples 1999, and Lichatowich 1999 and literature cited therein). If these risks were real, hatcheries may interfere with recovery, rather than speed it up. Until the early 2000s, analytical methods to explore the critical questions and risks associated with hatchery programs were unavailable because we were not able to track lineages in streams once hatchery and wild fish were allowed to spawn together. New molecular genetics methods, however, allowed the use of DNA fingerprints to pedigree entire populations under some circumstances and develop lineages that continue for multiple generations under natural spawning conditions. The objective of the study was to conduct an experimental supplementation project for coho salmon in Calapooya Creek, a tributary of the Umpqua River, using the following hatchery scenarios: a. Rock Creek hatchery stock released as smolts (a “conventional hatchery program”); b. Rock Creek hatchery stock released as unfed fry (a low- intervention hatchery program); c. First-generation wild-type hatchery stock released as smolts; and d. First-generation wild-type hatchery stock released as unfed fry. |
| Genre | Dataset |
| Access Condition | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Topic | salmon |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38527 |
