U.S.-New Zealand Cooperative Research: Variation in Reproductive Attributes Contributing to Fitness in New Zealand Chinook Salmon Populations

该奖项将为洪堡州立大学渔业部的大卫·汉金博士的旅行提供部分支持，他将在新西兰克赖斯特彻奇的国家水与大气研究所进行为期五个月的合作研究，与罗伯特·麦克道尔博士和马丁·约翰·昂温博士合作研究奇努克鲑鱼种群的繁殖。1904年，加利福尼亚萨克拉门托河上游的奇努克鲑鱼卵被运往新西兰，在新西兰南岛成功地建立了繁殖种群，所有这些都可以追溯到这一次的卵运输。在世界其他地方，还没有其他成功的尝试来培育这些鱼的自我维持移植种群。这项研究将集中在奇努克鲑鱼繁殖特性的变化上，这对种群的适应性至关重要。这项合作研究汇集了关注奇努克鲑鱼繁殖特征的美国和新西兰专家。

9315881 Hankin This award will provide partial support for the travel of Dr. David Hankin from the Department of Fisheries at Humboldt State University to spend five months at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Christchurch, New Zealand conducting collaborative research with Dr. Robert McDowall and Martin John Unwin on reproduction in chinook salmon populations. In 1904, chinook salmon eggs from the upper Sacramento River in California were shipped to New Zealand where reproducing populations successfully became established throughout New Zealand's South Island, all traceable to this single egg shipment. No other attempts to produce self-sustaining transplanted populations of these fish have proved successful elsewhere in the world. The study will focus on variation in reproductive attributes of chinook salmon which are central to the fitness of the population. This collaborative research brings together the American and New Zealand experts concerned with the reproductive traits of chinook salmon.