Author : Lisa Wishard Seeb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Progress in Development of a DNA Baseline for Genetic Identification of Chinook Salmon Stocks of the Copper River Basin, Alaska by : Lisa Wishard Seeb
Download or read book Progress in Development of a DNA Baseline for Genetic Identification of Chinook Salmon Stocks of the Copper River Basin, Alaska written by Lisa Wishard Seeb and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report serves as a first-year summary of progress of a contract study intended to document the timing and origins of chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, stocks in the Copper River and adjacent ocean fisheries using DNA markers. The project is intended to investigate the genetic structure of chinook salmon from the Copper River drainage using both microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Identification of genetic stocks of chinook salmon within the Copper River drainage and knowledge of their run timing and migration patterns will provide valuable information to optimize management and provide for sustainable fisheries. The first objective of this contract study is to develop a DNA database to delineate major geographic and temporal stocks of chinook salmon within the Copper River. This objective requires collection of tissue samples as well as the laboratory DNA analyses of those tissues. A second objective is to investigate run timing and entry patterns within the Copper River through the analysis of radio-tagged and fishwheel samples from Baird Canyon. A third objective is to characterize the timing of Copper River stocks in the ocean fisheries and estimate the contribution to this fishery by stocks of non-Copper River origin. Finally, these data will be standardized and contributed to a coastwide DNA database so that Copper River chinook salmon can be tracked throughout their marine migration. This report reviews the first year of the study which concentrated on objective 1.