Spawning gravel qualaity, watershed characteristics and early life history survival of coho salmon and steelhead in five North Olympic Peninsula watersheds
McHenry ML, Morrill DC, Currence E. 1994. Spawning gravel qualaity, watershed characteristics and early life history survival of coho salmon and steelhead in five North Olympic Peninsula watersheds. Department of Ecology. Olympia, WA
From the Introduction: "The purpose of this study was to develop and demonstrate a new method for assessing cumulative impacts of sedimentation on salmonids. We measured the relative condition of the spawning gravel in five watersheds on the northern coastal region of the Olympic Peninsula. Sediment values were then compared to natural and anthropogenic basin characteristics of each of the five watersheds to explain gross sedimentation processes. Finally, we measured in-situ early life history survival of two species of salmon within two study watersheds using an artificial redd technique developed by the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality...."
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- McHenry, Michael; Morrill, Douglas; Currence, Edward
- Date of Issue
- 1994-04
- Publisher
- Department of Ecology
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), Ozette River Watershed, Sediment, Spawning Habitat, Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)