Selective skeletal fatty acid depletion in spawning Pacific pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

Author(s):  
C.F. Phleger ◽  
R.J. Laub ◽  
S.R. Wambeke
1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Takamasa KASAI ◽  
Naomi NAGAOKA ◽  
Katsuhiro INOUE ◽  
Masaru TSUJIMURA

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 837-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stephen Robinson ◽  
James F. Mead

Analysis of the composition of the hump developed by the pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) during the spawning migration has revealed that it consists largely of lipid at the start of the migration and that lipid is largely replaced by water at the end. Quantitation of the individual lipids reveals that the high triglyceride present at the start decreases, resulting in a relative increase of cholesterol ester and free fatty acid during the migration.


1965 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1477-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. T. Bilton ◽  
W. E. Ricker

Among 159 central British Columbia pink salmon that had been marked by removal of two fins as fry and had been recovered in commercial fisheries after one winter in the sea, the scales of about one-third showed a supplementary or "false" check near the centre of the scale, in addition to the single clear-cut annulus. This evidence from fish of known age confirms the prevailing opinion that such extra checks do not represent annuli, hence that the fish bearing them are in their second year of life rather than their third. Unmarked pink salmon from the same area, and some from southern British Columbia, had a generally similar incidence of supplementary checks. In both marked and unmarked fish the supplementary checks varied in distinctness from faint to quite clear. In a sample of scales of 14 double-fin marked chum salmon which were known to be in their 4th year, all fish had the expected 3 annuli, and 12 fish had a supplementary check inside the first annulus.


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