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- Title
Using Age-0 Stocking to Assess Growth and Recruitment of Endangered Pallid Sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus.
- Authors
Gosch, Nathan J. C.; Gemeinhardt, Todd R.; Hall, Jerrod R.; Whiteman, Kasey W.; Welker, Tim L.; Bonneau, Joseph L.
- Abstract
(1) Assessing growth and recruitment can be difficult during early life history, especially for rare species such as the pallid sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus (federally endangered in the United States). One potential tool to address this knowledge gap is the stocking of age-0 individuals. (2) During July 2018, two stocking events of marked age-0 pallid sturgeon (53–56 or 41–42 days old) occurred in the lower Missouri River resulting in the release of 8495 individuals. Over the following three years, pallid sturgeon were sampled with baited trotlines and benthic trawls during routine monitoring. (3) During this period, we captured 77 individuals that recruited to age 1 or older. Only 9% of captured individuals yielded length-at-age values falling below the 95% prediction interval for pallid sturgeon raised entirely in an energetically favorable hatchery environment with abundant food resources. (4) These results suggest that the lower Missouri River is capable of supporting hatchery-level growth for young pallid sturgeon. This study also provided a unique opportunity to document recruitment to age-1 of age-0 pallid sturgeon stocked at relatively small sizes, which highlights the potential benefits of utilizing stocking to address endangered species knowledge gaps.
- Subjects
ENDANGERED species; FOOD research; TRAWLING; PALLID sturgeon; SCAPHIRHYNCHUS
- Publication
Fishes (MDPI AG), 2022, Vol 7, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
2410-3888
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/fishes7010050