Project: Assessment of the Effects of Landscape Features on the Distribution of Myxobolus cerebralis and Occurrence of Whirling Disease among Age-0 Trout in the Salt River Drainage, Wyoming-Idaho

Primary Investigator: Wayne Hubert
Project Summary: Age-0 mountain whitefish infected with whirling disease were collected from the river, mountain tributaries, and near the mouths of spring streams flowing on the floor of the valley, all locations where age-0 infected trout were also found. Histological evidence of whirling disease among age-0 mountain whitefish was rarely observed. No relations between landscape or in-stream habitat features and the rate of occurrence of whirling disease or histological evidence of the disease in mountain whitefish were found. The investigators suspect that high mortality among very young whitefish exposed to WD may have confounded efforts to relate habitat features to whirling disease among mountain whitefish.
Funding Period: 2000-2001
Final Report: Hubert1_00-01partial.pdf
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