Migration Rates of Yearling Chinook Salmon in Relation to Flows and Impoundments in the Columbia and Snake Rivers
- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 97 (4) , 356-359
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1968)97[356:mroycs]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Migration rates of yearling chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) through free‐flowing and impounded stretches of the Snake and Columbia Rivers were compared during periods of low and moderate river discharge. Generally, the rate of migration was directly related to the water flows; it was 21 km/day at the low river discharge (Columbia—4,248 m3/sec; Snake—1,416 m3/sec), and 37 km/day during moderate river discharge (Columbia—8,495 m3/sec; Snake—2,265 m3/sec). Migration rates through most free‐flowing and impounded stretches of the Snake and Columbia Rivers were similar with the one exception that in McNary Reservoir (Columbia River) fish moved only about one‐third as fast as elsewhere. Marked yearling chinook salmon from the Salmon River took 32 days to travel the 669 km to Bonneville Dam during the low river discharge in 1966. New impoundments may more than double the travel time now required during low river flows.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: