Californias part in a three-state salmon fingerling marking program
Hallock RJ, Warner GH, Fry DH. 1952. Californias part in a three-state salmon fingerling marking program. California Fish and Game. 38(3):301-332
Excerpts: "In 1946, official representatives of California, Oregon, and Washington formed a compact creating the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission to [allow for fisheries research and management coordination between states]. One of the first steps in the coordinated salmon study was a tagging program intended to give a start towards a more complete and quantitative knowledge of the movements of salmon, and to learn if there have been any important changes since earlier tagging experiments were conducted. A second experiment, intended to supplement the tagging, is involving the marking of king and silver salmon fingerlings, and the recovery of these marked fish. This report covers the first two years, [1950-1951], of salmon marking by the California Department of Fish and Game, and is primarily concerned with the problems involved in capturing and marking 'wild' or naturally spawned salmon, king and silver." King salmon were trapped, marked, and released on the upper portion of the Sacramento River. Silver salmon were seined, marked, and released in the coastal streams of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, between Bull Creek, a tributary to the Eel River, and Mill Creek, a tributary to the Smith River. Fish caught were sorted and marked at a nearby fish hatchery (Coleman Fishery Station, Mt. Shasta Hatchery, or Prairie Creek Hatchery).
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Hallock, Richard; Warner, George; Fry, Donald
- Units
- REDW
- Keywords
- Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, fingerlings, fish hatchery, Fish Studies, Lost Man Creek, Marking, Methods, Mill Creek, Movements, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Prairie Creek, Redwood Creek, Salmonid Species, seining, Tagging, Trapping