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Migration Timing of Atlantic Salmon Smolts Relative to Environmental and Physiological Factors

Kevin G. Whalen Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Holdsworth Natural Resource Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003, USA
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Donna L. Parrish Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA
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Stephen D. McCormick U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, One Migratory Way, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, 01376, USA
Pages 289-301 | Received 18 Dec 1997, Accepted 26 Jan 1999, Published online: 09 Jan 2011

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