Hi Tia, there is a large body of work going back several decades, emanating from centres such as University of British Columbia, Vancouver (including mathematical models from Carl F Walters), and University of Washington, Seattle, also from Juneau, Alaska (SM Gende), and associated Fisheries research centers. Burnett et al (2007) comment on the need for habitat conservation, and Laetz et al. (2009, attached) on the implication of toxic chemicals in salmon declines. See also Prof Scott Hinch at UBC. I hope this will give you a start.  Best wishes, Julian

Some Russian works related to the ecology of these fishes:

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/arts14/55ostrovsky.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/arts14/22goryainov.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0105.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0123.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0137.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0202.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0346.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0355.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0361.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0427.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0428.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0430.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0431.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0501.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0505.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0506.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0523.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0529.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0530.pdf

http://www.biosoil.ru/levanidov/articles/a0542.pdf

I recently summarized some of the older literature in this paper:

"Challenges in the conservation, rehabilitation and recovery of native stream salmonid populations: beyond the 2010 Luarca symposium"

I added a note about ethics, which I consider to be at the heart of the problem, here:

"The Land Ethic and conservation of native salmonids"

Both should be available on my RG profile. Good luck with your work - it is an important topic.

Regards,

John

Hallo  Tia,

I have some suggestions regarding conservation papers:

Consuegra, S and Nielsen EE (2007) Population size reduction. pp 239-292. In The Atlantic salmon: genetics, conservation and management. Ed Verspoor, E, Stradmeyer, L, Nielsen, JL. Blackwell Publishing.

Cross, TF, McGinnity, P., Coughlan, J., Dillane, E., Ferguson, A., Koljonen, M-L, Milner,N., O’Reilly & A. Vasemägi (2007) Stocking and ranching. pp 327-356. In The Atlantic salmon: genetics, conservation and management. Ed Verspoor, E, Stradmeyer, L, Nielsen, JL. Blackwell Publishing.

Ferguson, A, Fleming, IA, Hindar, K,Skaala, Ø, McGinnity,P, Cross, TF & P. Prodöhl

(2007) Farm escapes. pp 358-397. In The Atlanticsalmon: genetics, conservation and

management. Ed Verspoor, E, Stradmeyer, L, Nielsen, JL. Blackwell Publishing.

Fleming, I.A. (1994) Captive breeding and the conservation of wild salmon populations. Conserv. Biol., 8: 24- 26.

Primmer, C.R., Aho, T., Piironen, J., Estoup, A., Cournet, J-M. & E. Ranta (1999)

Microsatellite analysis of hatchery stocks and natural populations of Arctic charr,

Salvelinus alpinus, from the Nordic region: implications for conservation. Hereditas, 130:      277- 289.

Taylor, E.B. (1999) Species pairs of north temperate freshwater fishes: Evolution, taxonomy  and conservation. Rev. Fish Biol. Fish., 9: 299—324.

In

Vladić, T & Petersson , E, Editors. (2015)  Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic

Salmon, ISBN 13:978-1-4665-9848-5, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, USA

there are three chapters dealing with conservation biology:

Vladić, T. Effect of sperm competition on effective population size in the Atlantic salmon. pp.:185-205 (I sent it to you privately few days ago!)

Sundström F.L., Leggat R.A., Devlin R.H. Growth-enhanced Transgenic Salmon. pp 261- 272.

Horreo J.L.H. Captive breeding and Conservation. pp 273 - 282.

Best regards

Tomislav