A new analysis of multiple international high seas salmon surveys, led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), is building on an extensive body of work on the marine component of the salmon life cycle, the university announced April 15. According to Joe Langan, who led the study as a post-graduate fellow at UAF, the research is establishing a new quantitative, baseline understanding of salmon distributions and temperature preferences that will allow other researchers to have a better foundation from which to build and answer more detailed questions. “The goal was to generate a baseline, quantitative understanding of the broad-scale, average distribution patterns of salmon species across the North Pacific,” Langan said. “While past efforts have produced schematic representati...