Japanese chum salmon stock enhancement: current perspective and future challenges By Prof. Shuichi Kitada (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) Fisheries Science, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 237-249 (2014) Abstract This study reviews the present status of the Japanese chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta stock enhancement program and considers the ecological sustainability of wild populations while providing fishery production, exemplified by the hatchery-based Kitami region set net fishery. The return rate and the number of returns have been historically high in the Sea of Okhotsk, but have decreased in other regions since 2005. Natural spawning of chum salmon occurred in at least 160 rivers in Hokkaido. The genetic diversity of […]

Effect of global warming on the life history and population dynamics of Japanese chum salmon