During the autumn and winter period we documented high levels of abundance and residency for SSLs, and novel consumption impacts to all available runs of Pacific salmon and White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus).
Whole-body concentrations of cortisol and sex steroids in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus, Richardson 1836) during early development and stress response.
The age estimate precision from pectoral fin ray for the starry sturgeon is acceptable compared to the Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) (Mitchill 1814) (Stevenson & Secor 2000) and the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) (Richardson 1836) (Rien & Beamesderfer 1994) that reported higher CV for these long-lived species.
The white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus (Richardson 1836), is an anadromous fish that lives primarily in freshwater or estuaries, and infrequently meanders in the ocean.
At least one other species, the Pacific White Sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, was an important subsistence and commercial resource for Aboriginal people before it was over-harvested by non-Aboriginal fishermen in the late nineteenth century.