Pool Restoration for Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in Gravel Bed Rivers in New Brunswick, Canada

2010 ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
William C. Hooper
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Gravel Bed ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Gravel Bed Rivers

Relationship of upstream migrating adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and stream discharge within Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean C Mitchell ◽  
Richard A Cunjak
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
River System ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Stream Discharge ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Adult Abundance

Stream discharge has long been associated with abundance of returning adult spawning salmonids to streams and may also affect body size distribution of adult salmon as low flows interfere with returns of larger-bodied fish. We examined these relationships of abundance and body size within Catamaran Brook, a third-order tributary to the Miramichi River system of New Brunswick, Canada, to investigate the causes of a declining trend in annual returns of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) to this stream. Regression models of adult abundance, proportion of the run as grilse, and body size of returning adults as functions of maximum daily stream discharge during the period of upstream spawner migration were constructed. Adult abundance shows a logarithmic relationship with stream discharge and provides good predictive ability, while appearing to not be significantly related to adult abundance in the larger Miramichi system. The proportion as grilse in the run and female body size are also logarithmically related to stream discharge, with low flow years being very influential in the regressions. These relationships of Atlantic salmon population abundance and body size characteristics have implications with respect to stock integrity and production of the following generation.

Imprinting and Homing of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Kelts

1989 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Foster ◽  
C. B. Schom
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Release Site ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Salmon River ◽  
Delayed Release ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Seaward Migration ◽  
Passamaquoddy Bay

Experiments were conducted to determine if a process similar to imprinting occurs during each seaward migration of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). Displaced Atlantic salmon kelts homed to the site from which they had previously emigrated to sea as smolts (Big Salmon River, New Brunswick, Canada) and did not home to their release sites, or their overwintering sites 150 km away. Delaying release of kelts past the time of normal seaward migration did not cause the behavioral changes associated with interference of the imprinting process described for smolts. Delayed release kelts did not remain near their seawater or estuarine release sites, home to their release sites, or non-selectively home to suitable spawning streams near their release sites. Delayed released kelts travelled away from the release site faster than kelts released during their normal time of seaward migration, but they did not return either to Passamaquoddy Bay or their natal stream in the calendar year of their release (the normal time for this stock) or in subsequent years.

Parasites as Potential Biological Tags of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in the Miramichi River System, New Brunswick

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1139-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.M. Hare ◽  
M. D. B. Burt
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Parasite Species ◽  
River System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Diplostomum Spathaceum ◽  
Biological Tags

Ten parasite species (one protozoan, eight helminth, one mollusc) were collected from 1262 smolts of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the eight tributaries and estuary of the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada during 1970 and 1971. Three of these parasites, Discocotyle sagittata, Diplostomum spathaceum, and Neoechinorhynchus rutili showed restricted distributions within the study area. Discocotyle sagittata infected 32.6% of 435 smolts collected from tributaries draining into the Main Northwest Miramichi River but only 0.3% of 604 smolts collected from tributaries draining into the Main Southwest Miramichi River. Diplostomum spathaceum infected 18.9% of 148 smolts collected from the Southwest Miramichi River but was absent in 819 smolts collected from the remaining tributaries. Neoechinorhynchus rutili infected 18.8% of 144 smolts collected from the Bartholomew River but only 0.2% of 895 smolts collected from the other tributaries. Presence of Discocotyle sagittata on smolts collected in the estuary of the Miramichi River would identify smolts that originated in the Main Northwest Miramichi River, thus allowing for a separation of smolts from this branch and the other main branch, the Main Southwest Miramichi River. Presence of Diplostomum spathaceum in smolts collected in the Main Southwest Miramichi River or in the estuary of the Miramichi River would identify smolts that originated in the Southwest Miramichi River. Presence of N. rutili in smolts collected in the Main Southwest Miramichi River would identify smolts of Bartholomew River origin.

Relative Rates of Utilization by Commercial and Sport Fisheries of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) from the Miramichi River, New Brunswick

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Kerswill
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
Average Ratio ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Total Utilization ◽  
Made In

Studies of naturally produced Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts, marked from 1950 to 1961 on tributaries of the Miramichi River by differential finclipping, indicated that commercial fisheries accounted for over 60% of their total utilization as adults. The bulk of commercial recoveries was about equally divided among Newfoundland traps, Miramichi drift nets, and Miramichi trapnets; the remainder came from various commercial catches in the Maritime Provinces and Quebec. The percentages of grilse (1 sea-year fish) in commercial catches were low, 20% for Northwest Miramichi and 17% for Southwest Miramichi fish.Anglers reported 10 and 7%, respectively, of all the recaptures of Northwest and Southwest fish. All these angling recoveries were made in freshwater sections of the Miramichi River. Grilse comprised over 70% of angling recaptures.Spawning escapement accounted for 25% of the Northwest returns, of which 60% were grilse; and 19% of the Southwest returns, of which 85% were grilse.For the total of 174,509 smolts marked on the Northwest Miramichi the minimum survival rate to fisheries and spawning escapement was 2.7%. For 78,117 Southwest smolts, the corresponding value was 2.0%. These survival rates, except for the Newfoundland commercial catches, were not adjusted for completeness of search and other factors.The average ratio of grilse to larger salmon in the adult recoveries, about 0.6:1, was much lower than in more recent smolt-tagging experiments by another worker (about 2:1) and indicated a considerable increase in the ratio for Miramichi stock between 1950 and 1968.

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