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124. Temperature and Westslope Cutthroat Trout Survival

Tue, 12/03/2024 - 13:32 , stobias

Westslope Cutthroat Trout

Oncorhynchus lewisi

Temperature

Tank Temperature °C

Fry

Bear, E. A., McMahon, T. E., & Zale, A. V. (2007). Comparative thermal requirements of westslope cutthroat trout and rainbow trout: implications for species interactions and development of thermal protection standards. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 136(4), 1116. Bear, E. A., McMahon, T. …

Survivorship

131. Turbidity and Steelhead Habitat Density Scalar (0.1mm)

Thu, 12/05/2024 - 19:55 , stobias

Steelhead Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Turbidity

Turbidity (by riffle depth) at 0.1m NTU

Parr

Cramer, S. P., & Ackerman, N. K. (2009). Prediction of stream carrying capacity for steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss): the unit characteristic method. In American Fisheries Society, Series: Symposium (Vol. 71, pp. 255-288). Cramer, S. P., & Acke…

Density

130. Turbidity and Steelhead Habitat Density Scalar (0.3mm)

Thu, 12/05/2024 - 19:55 , stobias

Steelhead Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Turbidity

Turbidity (by riffle depth) at 0.3m NTU

Parr

Density

132. Turbidity and Steelhead Habitat Density Scalar (0.5mm)

Thu, 12/05/2024 - 19:55 , stobias

Steelhead Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Turbidity

Turbidity (by riffle depth) at 0.5m NTU

Parr

Density

183. Water Withdrawals during Low Flow Conditions and System Capacit

Thu, 01/23/2025 - 23:58 , mbakken

Athabasca Rainbow Trout, Bull Trout…

Oncorhynchus mykiss, Salvelinus confluentus, Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi

Water withdrawn

February flow withdrawn, August flow withdrawn Flow withdrawn %

Adults

February, August All activities

Alberta foothills watersheds, excluding National Parks

Government of Alberta. 2024. Surface water withdrawal stressor-response function for Athabasca Rainbow Trout, Westslope Cutthroat Trout, and Bull Trout. Environment and Protected Area Native Trout Cumulative Effects Model. Hatfield, T., and J. Bruce. 2000. Predicting salmonid habitat–flow relationships for streams from Western North America. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20:1005-1015. Hatfield, T., and A.J. Paul. 2015. A comparison of desktop hydrologic methods for determining environmental flows. Canadian Water Resources Journal 40:303-318. Koenker, R. 2017. quantreg: Quantile Regression. R package version 5.33. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quantreg Rosenfeld, J.S., and R. Ptolemy. 2012. Modelling available habitat versus available energy flux: do PHABSIM applications that neglect prey abundance underestimate optimal flows for juvenile salmonids? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69(12):1920-1934. Government of Alberta. 20…

System capacity

280. WDFW & Ecology 2004: HSI Coho Spawning Substrate

Thu, 10/15/2026 - 04:53 , mbayly

Coho Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Substrate

Substrate class (1–9) substrate class

Spawners

Fall-early winter (spawning season) spawning

Quinault River tributary, Washington

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife & Washington Department of Ecology. (2008). Instream flow study guidelines: Technical and habitat suitability issues including fish preference curves (Publication No. 04-11-007; updated April 5, 2004; error correction update February 12, 2008). Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Washington Department of …

Habitat Suitability Index

281. WDFW & Ecology 2004: HSI Coho Spawning Velocity

Thu, 10/15/2026 - 04:53 , mbayly

Coho Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Velocity

Water Velocity (mean column velocity at redd) m/s

Spawners

Fall-early winter (spawning season) spawning

Quinault River tributary, Washington

Habitat Suitability Index

279. WDFW & Ecology 2008: HSI Coho Spawning Depth

Thu, 10/15/2026 - 04:53 , mbayly

Coho Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Depth

Water Depth (total depth at redd) m

Spawners

Fall-early winter (spawning season) spawning

Quinault River tributary, Washington

Habitat Suitability Index

189. Whirling Disease and Athabasca Rainbow Trout

Fri, 01/24/2025 - 20:38 , mbakken

Athabasca Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Whirling Disease

Whirling Disease Risk Factor Unitless

Adults

All seasons All activities

Alberta foothills watersheds, excluding National Parks

Government of Alberta. 2024. Whirling disease stressor-response function for Athabasca Rainbow Trout. Environment and Protected Area Native Trout Cumulative Effects Model. Baerwald, M.R., J.L. Petersen, R.P. Hedrick, G.J. Schisler and B. May. 2011. A major effect quantitative trait locus for whirling disease resistance identified in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Heredity 106:920-926. Nehring, R.B. and P.G. Walker. 1996. Whirling disease in the wild: the new reality in the intermountain west. Fisheries 21:28-30. Paul, A.J. and J. Reilly. 2016. Whirling disease –risk mapping for the Bow River Basin. Technical report for Fisheries Management, Alberta Environment and Parks. Cochrane, AB. 1 Sept 2016. 14 pp. Sullivan, M.G. and S. Spencer. 2016. Cumulative effect of whirling disease and fishing mortality on Alberta trout populations. Technical report, Fisheries Management, Alberta Environment and Parks. Edmonton, AB. 29 August 2016. 10 pp. Vincent, E.R. 1996. Whirling disease and wild trout: the Montana experience. Fisheries 21:32-33. Government of Alberta. 20…

System capacity