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Materials of preliminary investigations of the life strategy of mykiss Parasalmo mykiss and trout Salmo trutta introduced to water bodies of Chili are considered. Analysis of the structure of scales demonstrated that, in mykiss and trout, the estuarine and riverine-estuarine types of life strategy prevail. This seems to be related to good feeding conditions in fjords. The hypothesis is suggested that, in the area of Chilean fjords, the successful introduction to rivers and artificial rearing in cages in brackish water resulted in the formation of a peculiar and highly dynamic population system. Elements of this system are from both fish of natural self-reproducing populations and fish grown in cages. There is a continuous exchange with genetic information between them as the fish that have escaped from cages attain maturity, arrive to rivers for spawning, and reproduce together with wild fish.
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Original Russian Text © D.S. Pavlov, K.A. Savvaitova, K.V. Kuzishchin, M.A. Gruzdeva, S.D. Pavlov, 2007, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 451–461.
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Pavlov, D.S., Savvaitova, K.A., Kuzishchin, K.V. et al. Life strategies of mykiss Parasalmo mykiss and trout Salmo trutta introduced in water bodies of Chili. J. Ichthyol. 47, 427–437 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945207060021
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