International Data Bases Help Resolve Migration and Survival of Pacific Salmon in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea

摘要

In the summer of 2003, the United States completed its fifth decade of research into the distribution and migration of salmonids in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. These basins provide major feeding habitats for various salmon stocks originating from both Asia and North America (e.g., Kaeriyama 1998; Seeb et al. in press). Information from tags, parasites, or scale patterns provides important insights (Wood et al. 1989; Patton et al. 1998; Urawa et al. 2000); here we review the emergence of genotyping approaches used by United States laboratories that have led to finer resolution in stock identification studies.