Winter mortality of Okhotsk Sea pink salmon in the ocean
TINRO-Center, Vladivostok, Russia
Alexander Zavolokin & Elena Strezhneva
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Chinook Coho Sockeye Chum Pink
About 80% of Russian pink salmon originated from Okhotsk Sea
Commercial catch of Pacific salmon by Russia
Pink salmon
Bering Sea Okhotsk
Sea
Pacific Ocean
— spawning rivers
Goryainov 2008
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320,000 mt
4 months
32,000 mt
2 months
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3 months
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2,5 months
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3 months
pink chum sockeye chinook coho
Main feeding area for juvenile pink salmon
Composition, biomass and feeding migrations’ duration of juvenile Pacific salmon in the Russian economic zone,
average estimations for 1980-2006 (Shuntov and Temnykh 2008)
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Long-term forecasting (7-10 months in advance)
Forecast correction (2-8 weeks in advance)
Okhotsk Sea
Bering Sea
Pacific Ocean
October – early November
June – early July
Survey areas for long- and short-term forecasting of Okhotsk Sea pink salmon
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Okhotsk Sea
Bering Sea
Pacific Ocean
October – early November
Survey areas for long- and short-term forecasting of Okhotsk Sea pink salmon
Long-term forecasting (7-10 months in advance) More useful for fishermen,
but less precise
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Temnykh 2013
Forecast correction (2-8 weeks in advance) More precise, but late for
fishermen
Okhotsk Sea
Bering Sea
Pacific Ocean
June – early July
Survey areas for long- and short-term forecasting of Okhotsk Sea pink salmon
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Temnykh 2013
Survival rates of pink salmon belonging to the Sea of Okhotsk stocks during period from fall surveys till prespawning approaches to coasts, 1989-2010 (Radchenko et al., 2013)
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Year of parental generation spawn/downstream migration
Pink salmon marine survival changes 4-fold
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Okhotsk Sea
Bering Sea
Pacific Ocean
October – early November
June – early July
How can we improve long-term forecasting of pink
salmon returns?
X 500,000 USD
? Predictors of pink salmon winter survival
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Critical Size, Critical Period Hypothesis (Beamish and Mahnken 2001)
The distribution of the average circuli spacing of the first 10 saltwater circuli from (a) ocean-age-0 coho salmon collected in the Strait of Georgia in September and November, 2000 and (b) ocean-age-1 coho salmon collected in March, July, August, and September in the Strait of Georgia and from Chilliwack and Big Qualicum hatcheries. (Figure from Beamish et al. 2004)
Relative frequencies of scale radius length to circuli 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 for hatchery pink salmon juveniles (dotted lines) and individuals of that cohort returning the following year as mature adults (solid lines). (Figure from Moss et al. 2005)
ocean-age-0 coho
ocean-age-1 coho
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Goal: to test the hypothesis of critical size and critical period for Sea of Okhotsk pink salmon, and to evaluate the possibility of using the data on the growth and body size of juveniles for predicting their returns
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Ind./hour– 0
– < 20
– 21-50
– 51-100
– > 100
Fall 2007 Fall 2008
~ 1 000 th. ind. ~ 1 000 th. ind.
275 th. ind. (28%)
608 th. ind. (61%)
Okhotsk Sea
Pacific Ocean
Okhotsk Sea
Pacific Ocean
Summer 2008 Summer 2009
Distribution and abundance of 2007 and 2008 pink salmon generations in the Okhotsk Sea and the Pacific Ocean
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Okhotsk Sea
Pacific Ocean
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9 12
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9 12
1st year
Juvenile
Maturing
Scale measurements of juvenile and adult pink salmon caught in fall in the Okhotsk Sea and in summer in the Pacific Ocean
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– juvenile pink salmon (fall) – maturing pink salmon (summer)
Circuli spacing, 10-6 m
% 3 circuli 6 circuli 9 circuli 12 circuli
Average circuli spacing of the first 3, 6, 9 and 12 circuli from pink salmon of 2007 and 2008 generations
3 circuli 6 circuli 9 circuli 12 circuli %
2007 generation
2008 generation
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2008 275 th. ind.
2009 608 th. ind.
Average circuli spacing of maturing pink salmon in the second year of life
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2008 2009
– median
– quartile
– limits
Second year growth was similar in 2008
and 2009
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Body length Mortality
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r = 0.74, p < 0.01 r = 0.74, p < 0.01
Changes in body size of juvenile pink salmon and their mortality from fall till approach to coast
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r = 0.74, p < 0.01 r = 0.74, p < 0.01
Changes in body size of juvenile pink salmon and their mortality from fall till approach to coast
Pacific Ocean
ODD YEARS High abundance of
relatively small juveniles
EVEN YEARS Dominance of relatively big
juveniles
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2009
2011
2013
66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94
Mortality, %
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2009
2011
2013
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2012
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Mortality, %
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2012
r = 0.81, p < 0.05
r = 0.94, p < 0.05
Changes in body length of juvenile pink salmon and their mortality from fall till approach to coast
Separate analyses of even and odd years
improve fitting
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Mean
Mean±SE
Mean±1.96*SE safe recently injured
Fish state
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Body length
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safe recently wounded
Mean body length of pink salmon which were recently wounded by Daggertooth or Lancetfish in comparison with
non-wounded fish
2012, Northwestern Pacific Ocean
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Conclusion critical size and critical period
hypothesis is confirmed for Sea of Okhotsk pink salmon
data on body size of juvenile pink salmon can be useful for long-term forecasting of their returns
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