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The Effects of Fisheries Capture on the Physiology and Post-Release Fate of Adult Pacific Salmon

All animals encounter acute stressors during their lifetimes, and while the immediate response to those stressors is well understood and presumed to be adaptive, relatively few studies have linked those responses with subsequent fitness outcomes.This problem finds particular relevance in the fisheries realm, where there is interest in developing a) an understanding of what leads to mortality for caught-and-released animals, b) methods for reducing post-release mortality, and c) predictors of delayed mortality.Pacific salmon are a tractable model for studying post-release mortality because the migration success of individuals after release can be easily and effectively tracked, and migration failure means zero lifetime fitness.In this thesis I report on research in which I used physiological assessments and tracked Pacific salmon fitness outcomes …

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