Telemetry reveals how catch and release affects prespawning migration in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
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With the decline of many exploited fish populations, catch and release has become an increasingly usedmanagement practice to allow sport fishing while reducing its impact on wild populations. However, survival and reproductive success can vary according to the catch and release technique and environmental conditions, suggesting a potential impact of this practice on prespawning behaviour. Here we evaluate how some critical aspects of salmon freshwater migration are influenced by catch and release and by environmental factors. For this purpose, 40multi-sea-winter Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) (20 catch and release and 20 control) were followed by telemetry from June 2011 to March 2012. Temperature was found to influence movements and the daily probability that a fish would cross a fish ladder, while water discharge influenced daily distance travelled during the prespawningmigration. Catch and releasewas found to influence the daily probability of fish to cross a barrier aswell as the total distance traveled in the river. Overall, this study suggests that salmon caught and released by fishermen survive and reproduce, but that prespawning exploration behaviours could be altered compared with those of uncaught salmon. Résumé : Avec le déclin de plusieurs populations de poissons exploitées, la remise à l’eau est devenue une approche de gestion populaire afin d’assurer la pêche sportive tout enminimisant ses impacts. Néanmoins, comme la survie et le succès reproducteur peuvent varier selon les conditions environnementales et la méthode employée, la remise à l’eau pourrait avoir un impact non-négligeable sur le comportement pré-reproducteur. Cette étude évalue comment certains aspects critiques de la migration en eau douce du saumon atlantique (Salmo salar) sont influencés par la remise à l’eau et les conditions environnementales. Quarante saumons rédibermarins (20 remis à l’eau, 20 contrôles) ont été suivis par télémétrie de juin 2011 à mars 2012. Les résultats indiquent que la température influence la probabilité demouvement et de franchissement d’obstacle, alors que le débit influence la distance journalière parcourue. Par ailleurs, la remise à l’eau influence la probabilité journalière pour un individu de franchir un obstacle et la distance totale parcourue par celui-ci. Cette étude suggère que même si les saumons remis à l’eau survivent et se reproduisent, le comportement pré-reproducteur peut en être altéré.
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