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SUBMITTER: Welch DW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3102360 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Welch David W DW Melnychuk Michael C MC Payne John C JC Rechisky Erin L EL Porter Aswea D AD Jackson George D GD Ward Bruce R BR Vincent Stephen P SP Wood Chris C CC Semmens Jayson J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110510 21
Many salmon populations in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have experienced sharply decreasing returns and high ocean mortality in the past two decades, with some populations facing extirpation if current marine survival trends continue. Our inability to monitor the movements of marine fish or to directly measure their survival precludes experimental tests of theories concerning the factors regulating fish populations, and thus limits scientific advance in many aspects of fisheries manageme ...[more]