The Fate of Coho Salmon Nomads: The Story of an Estuarine-Rearing Strategy Promoting Resilience
The downstream movement of coho salmon nomads (age 0), conventionally considered surplus fry, has been an accepted characteristic of juvenile coho salmon for the past 40 to 50 yr.The fate of these nomads, however, was not known and they were assumed to perish in the ocean.Several studies and observations have recently provided new insights into the