Differential Recovery of Brook Trout Planted by Hand and by Air Drop

1 January 1968

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Vol. 97 (1) , 32-36
https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1968)97[32:drobtp]2.0.co;2

Abstract

Air dropped brook trout yearlings experienced a lower survival than trout planted by hand. It appears that the mortality is in some manner associated with the air drop since hand planted fish which had been transported by air did not experience this lower survival.