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Food quality might be key for juvenile sockeye salmon growth and survival

Food quality might be key for juvenile sockeye salmon growth and survival

The quality of food sockeye salmon eat along their migration routes is more important to their growth and condition than quantity, a new study has found, highlighting concerns about the effects of climate change on ocean conditions and salmon.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Faculty, fish, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Jessica Garzke, Research, salmon, zooplankton

Expect shorter food chains in more productive coastal ecosystems

Expect shorter food chains in more productive coastal ecosystems

“We provided evidence for bottom-up omnivory in nutrient-rich temperate pelagic ecosystems, where food chain length is determined by the level of diatom production,” said Jacob Lerner. “This is very different from the global model for pelagic ecosystems.”

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with biology, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Faculty, fish, food webs, IOF students, Krill, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Research, salmon, zooplankton

International Year of the Salmon Expedition helps IOF researchers map North Pacific food webs

International Year of the Salmon Expedition helps IOF researchers map North Pacific food webs

For scientists in the IOF’s Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, the trip represents a chance to trace the outline of North Pacific food webs, in which salmon play a central role as both predator and prey.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, IYSExpedition, News Release | Tagged with Anna McLaskey, Brian Hunt, Faculty, food webs, Genyffer Troina, Gulf of Alaska, International Year of the Salmon, IOF postdoctoral fellows, jellyfish, plankton, Research, salmon, squid, zooplankton

Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River

Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River

A Chinook with a short migration to Harrison Lake may offer half the calories to a resident killer whale as a similarly sized Chinook headed to the headwaters of the Fraser River.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, fish, fish stocks, fisheries management, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon

Partnership between UBC researchers, marine stewards and K’ómoks First Nation spawns new microplastics findings

Partnership between UBC researchers, marine stewards and K’ómoks First Nation spawns new microplastics findings

What they found helps illuminate the study of microplastics in the ocean, an area of pollution research that is garnering lots of attention due to the many unknowns about how these particles damage the health of organisms that ingest them.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Coastline, Faculty, Herring, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, plastic, pollution, Research, zooplankton

These bodies of water are right next to each other, but oceans apart

These bodies of water are right next to each other, but oceans apart

Areas of B.C.’s coastal ocean may look similar from above water, but under the water, they can be completely different worlds, in terms of temperature, salinity, ocean acidification, and nutrient concentrations.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, environment, Hakai Institute, heatwaves, plankton, salinity, salmon, temperatures, water

Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again

Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again

Video for this seminar is now available! Click to watch

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Webinars | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Andrea Reid, Brian Hunt, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, food webs, Freshwater, High Seas, Indigenous fisheries, IOF alumni, IOF students, salmon, William Cheung

Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets

Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets

We think of jellyfish as not being picky eaters, but in this case, it seemed that they didn’t like feeding on a single diet.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Faculty, food webs, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, Vancouver Aquarium

Record-breaking heatwaves, aquatic biodiversity, and human communities: BC and beyond

Record-breaking heatwaves, aquatic biodiversity, and human communities: BC and beyond

We brought together leading experts in climatology, oceanography, aquatic ecology, and fisheries to share their knowledge about heatwaves and their impacts on biodiversity and dependent human communities.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Webinars | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Christopher Harley, Faculty, Research, Seminars and events, Simon Donner, video, William Cheung

Getting a step closer to understanding how Chinook salmon live

Getting a step closer to understanding how Chinook salmon live

Stable isotope analysis can peel back the curtain to give scientists a view of where fish spend their time, what they’ve been eating, and how they are interacting with other species.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Faculty, fish stocks, fisheries management, foraging, IOF students, life cycles, Research, salmon

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