Project Information

Title: Effects of Oiled Incubation Substrate on Pink Salmon Reproduction 02476

Project Year and Number: 2002: 02476

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2003: 030476, 2001: 01476, 2000: 00476, 1999: 99476

Principal Investigator (PI): Ron Heintz (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Little Port Walter, Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Pink Salmon, Sediments

Abstract: Populations are maintained through successful reproduction; this project is designed to determine if exposure to oil impairs pink salmon reproduction. Examination of the ability of the parental generation (P1) to produce offspring (F1) is underway. The P1 was exposed when they incubated in 1998; the F1 incubated in clean water beginning in FY 01. After the F1 emerges in spring 2001, the fish will be marked and released. At the end of FY 02, the released fish will be recovered when they return as mature adults. At that time, the project will measure the ability of the F1 to produce viable offspring (F2). A diminished ability to produce the F2 generation represents a genetic effect transmitted to unexposed generations. Such an effect was demonstrated in similarly treated pink salmon in 1997, but corroborating data do not exist.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY02: View (37 KB)
Final Report: See Project 030476

Publications from this Project: None Available