Chinook salmon definition

Chinook salmon means the species Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.

Examples of Chinook salmon in a sentence

  • Chelan PUD has conducted annual Lake Chelan spawning ground surveys for kokanee and land-locked Chinook salmon since 1984.

  • Five hatcheries currently produce Chinook salmon in the Central Valley and four of these also produce steelhead.

  • NMFS will issue transferable Chinook salmon PSC allocations to the inshore cooperatives permitted annually under § 679.4(l)(6).

  • Releasing large numbers of hatchery fish can pose a threat to wild Chinook salmon and steelhead stocks through genetic impacts, competition for food and other resources between hatchery and wild fish, predation of hatchery fish on wild fish, and increased fishing pressure on wild stocks as a result of hatchery production (Waples 1991).

  • Status review of Chinook salmon from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and California.

  • Although the degree of hybridization has not been comprehensively determined, it is clear that the populations of spring-run Chinook salmon spawning in the Feather River and counted at RBDD contain hybridized fish.

  • Biological Opinion on the impacts from the collection, rearing, and release of listed and non-listed salmonids associated with artificial propagation programs in the Upper Willamette spring Chinook salmon and winter steelhead evolutionarily significant units.

  • This concurrent spawning has led to hybridization between the spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon in the Feather River.

  • The SMSCG have delayed or blocked passage of adult Chinook salmon migrating upstream (Edwards et al.

  • Any Chinook salmon PSC caught in WY comes off of the (cooperative or limited access fishery) Chinook salmon PSC limit.

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