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Glossary
PFRCC maintains an extensive glossary of terms related to fisheries and conservation. You can download the entire document here, but we’ve highlighted a few terms here:
- Fry
A very small free-swimming young salmon or steelhead, usually less than one year old
- Habitat
Area in which an organism would naturally be found; the place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism
- Morbidity
The prevalence and severity of impacts of disease
- Pathogenicity
Whether or not the normal functioning of the fish is affected and the chances of survival of the fish are reduced; the ability to cause a disease
- PSC
Pacific Salmon Commission - formed March 17th 1985 as a result of the Pacific Salmon Treaty established between Canada and the United States
- Riparian
Of, on, or relating to the banks of a natural course of water
- Smolt
A young steelhead or salmon at the life cycle stage after the parr when it becomes covered with silvery scales and first migrates from fresh water to the sea
- Stock
A genetically similar group of fish, usually returning to a specific geographic area and/or time period
- Tagging
Process used for placing a mark on a fish so it can be uniquely identified at a later time
- Wild salmon
Salmon are considered "wild" if they have spent their entire life cycle in the wild and originate from parents that were also produced by natural spawning and continuously lived in the wild