A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE ON THE SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY OF THE PACIFIC SALMON 



By 



Norman J. Jilimovsky and barren G. Freihofer 



INTRODUCTION 



The importance and significance of salmon ( Oncorhvnchus spp.) in the 

 economy of nations bordering the North Pacific Ocean is too well known to 

 require any lengthy justification for our need to study the biology of 

 these fishes. This widespread interest in the salmon by both the lay and 

 scientific public has resulted in the publication of a vast literature on 

 these species. The extent of the data available has become such that it is 

 virtually impossible for one person to become familiar with all of it. To 

 aid those investigators studying the systematic biology of the Pacific 

 salmon, the following subject index and annotated bibliography was prepared. 



t* 

 Scope of the Bibliography 



This report is intended to serve as a guide to those papers (within 

 the range of the literature examined by us) treating the systematic biology 

 of the Pacific salmon ( Oncorhvnchus spp.). The word systematics is used in 



its modern or broad sense and not merely in the pure taxonomic or nomenclat- 



i 



orial sense. As defined by G.S. Myers (Systematic Zoology, 1952, volume 1, p. 

 106), "Systematic biology ( - 'systematics') is the study of the nature and 

 origin of the natural populations of living organisms, both present and past." 



The following list of topics included within this bibliography will 

 indicate our intent of the term "nature" in the above definition. 



