River Dart Scale Reading Investigation Report on the 1964 Season
This is the third River Dart Scale Reading Investigation Report on the 1964 season by the Devon River Board. The object of this investigation is to examine, by means of scale-reading, the general biology of the salmon population of the River Dart. It reviews the methods used for the collection of scales and examination of the materials. It shows the results of the survey and the number of scales studied from each of the various sea-age classes, time of running with distribution of the sea-age groups throughout the season, fish sizes and smolt ages at migration. All are summarized in tables, and figures are also included plotting weight distributions for each age classes and frequency distributions. After three years of the investigation a pattern is emerging which shows that the Dart salmon population is mainly composed of four year old fish, which have spent two years in the river and then two year or little longer at sea.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Devon River Board
1965
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, Limnology, Management, England, South West, River Dart, River fisheries, Freshwater fish, Salmon fisheries, Fish populations, Population structure, Population dynamics, Migratory species, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/27147 |
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