Wild Chinook salmon are more efficient predators than hatchery fish at Roberts Bank, Fraser River Estuary
SIDNEY, BC CANADA – New research from the University of British Columbia and Raincoast Conservation Foundation finds that wild juvenile Chinook salmon are better foragers than their hatchery counterparts in the Fraser River Estuary. Published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, the study compared diets of wild and hatchery Chinook salmon rearing in Roberts Bank eelgrass…
