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

9315881 Hankin该奖项将部分资助洪堡州立大学渔业系的David Hankin博士前往新西兰克赖斯特彻奇的国家水与大气研究所工作五个月，与Robert McDowall博士和Martin John Unwin博士合作研究奇努克鲑鱼种群的繁殖。1904年，加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托河上游的Chinook鲑鱼卵被运往新西兰，在那里新西兰南岛成功建立了繁殖种群，所有这些都可以追溯到这一次的鸡蛋运输。在世界其他地方，没有其他尝试生产自给自足的这些鱼类移植种群的努力被证明是成功的。这项研究将重点放在奇努克鲑鱼繁殖属性的变化上，这对种群的健康至关重要。这项合作研究汇集了美国和新西兰的专家，他们关注奇努克鲑鱼的生殖特征。

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.