Habicht, C., j.E. Seeb, R.B. Gates, I.R. Brock, and C.A. Olito. 1994. Triploid coho salmon outperform diploid and triploid hybrids between coho salmon and chinook salmon during their first year. Can. 1. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 57 (Suppl. 1): 31-37.Sterile hybrid and triploid fish may provide hatchery programs with a tool to reduce the risk of genetic contamination of wild stocks, provided these fish have acceptable performance characteristics. We examined growth, survival, and deformities in diploid and triploid families of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and hybrids between coho salmon females X. chinook salmon ( 0 . tshawytscha) males. Data were collected from the half-sibling families through day 387. A reparameterined Gompertm growth model showed that conspecific coho salmon grew faster than hybrids, regardless of ploidy. No difference in growth rates was found between diploids and triploids. Abnormalities were significantly associated with the male parent but not with ploidy component, in contrast to previous observations of reduced deformity occurrence in triploid hybrids. Food conversion was better for conspecifics than hybrids during initial feeding, but not different during the second half of the experiment. No ploidy or cross x ploidy interaction effects on food conversion efficiency were observed. Finally, conspecifics had better posthatching survival than hybrids, regardless of ploidy. Of the treatments studied, conspecific triploid coho salmon may be the most viable alternative for sterile fish production: they performed as well as the conspecific diploids and better than either diploid or triploid hybrids.Des poissons hybrides et des poissons triploi'des steriles pourraient &re utilises dans Bes programmes df41evage pour reduire le risque de contamination gknktique des stocks sauvages s'ils presentaient des caracteristiques de rendement acceptables. Les auteurs ont examine les taux de croissance, de survie et de difformite chez des farnilles de saumons cohos (Oncorhynchus kisutch) diploaides et triploi'des et des hybrides obtenus de croisements de saumons cohos femelles et de saumons quinnats (0. tshawytscha) males. Ils ont recueilli des donnees sur les familles 3 demi-apparentees pendant 387 jours. Une courbe de croissance reparametree de Gompertn a r6vbl6 que le taux de croissance des cohos congeneres etait plus eleve que chen les hybrides, independamment du degre de pbidie; par contre, C i nfy avait pas de diffkreaace de ce taux entre Bes saumons diploi'des et triploi'des. Les anomalies btaient liees de facon significative au parent male, mais non 3 la ploi'die; ceci va l'encontre d'observations antkrieures selon lesquelles les hybrides triploi'des montrent Len taux moindre de difformite. Le taux de conversion des aliments 4tait plus $lev6 chez les congeneres que chen les hybrides la premiere prise d'aliments, mais nf6tait pas different pendant la deuxierne moiti6 de I'experience. Les auteurs n'ont pas observ6 d'incidence du degre de plo'idie ou de ifinteraction croisement et plo'idie sur Ifefficaci...