The fitness consequences of wildlife conservation translocations: a meta‐analysis

IP Gross, AE Wilson, ME Wolak - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation translocation is a common strategy to offset mounting rates of population
declines through the transfer of captive‐or wild‐origin organisms into areas where …

Salmon hatchery strays can demographically boost wild populations at the cost of diversity: quantitative genetic modelling of Alaska pink salmon

SA May, KR Shedd, KM Gruenthal… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hatcheries are vital to many salmon fisheries, with inherent risks and rewards. While
hatcheries can increase the returns of adult fish, the demographic and evolutionary …

Effectiveness of managed gene flow in reducing genetic divergence associated with captive breeding

CD Waters, JJ Hard, MSO Brieuc, DE Fast… - Evolutionary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Captive breeding has the potential to rebuild depressed populations. However, associated
genetic changes may decrease restoration success and negatively affect the adaptive …

A synthesis of findings from an integrated hatchery program after three generations of spawning in the natural environment

DE Fast, WJ Bosch, MV Johnston… - … American Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Cle Elum Supplementation and Research Facility in the Yakima River basin,
Washington, is an integrated spring Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha hatchery …

Maintaining a wild phenotype in a conservation hatchery program for Chinook salmon: The effect of managed breeding on early male maturation

DA Larsen, DL Harstad, AE Fuhrman, CM Knudsen… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In many salmonid species, age and size at maturation is plastic and influenced by the
interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Hatchery reared salmon often …

Effects of supplementation in upper Yakima River chinook salmon

IJ Koch, TR Seamons, PF Galbreath… - Transactions of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To promote recovery of natural salmonid populations, managers are utilizing hatchery
supplementation programs to increase abundance of spawners on the spawning grounds …

Breeding success of wild and first-generation hatchery female spring Chinook salmon spawning in an artificial stream

SL Schroder, CM Knudsen, TN Pearsons… - Transactions of the …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
First-generation hatchery and wild spring Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha from
the upper Yakima River, Washington, were placed into an artificial stream and allowed to …

Genomic and phenotypic effects of inbreeding across two different hatchery management regimes in Chinook salmon

CD Waters, JJ Hard, DE Fast, CM Knudsen… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic approaches permit direct estimation of inbreeding and its effect on fitness. We
used genomic‐based estimates of inbreeding to investigate their relationship with eight …

Understanding the adaptive consequences of hatchery-wild interactions in Alaska salmon

WS Grant - Environmental biology of fishes, 2012 - Springer
About 31% of salmon harvested in Alaska comes from the hatchery production of hundreds
of millions of pink and chum salmon and smaller numbers of sockeye, Chinook, and coho …

Disruption of natural disturbance regime decouples habitat and life stage in a keystone species

JE Merz, RA Brown, K Sellheim, SC Zeug - Ecosphere, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic disturbance of stream ecosystems, often chronic in nature, has been studied
extensively. However, when disturbance is driven by more than one resource policy over …