Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Brian Avila

Brian in Gunnison Gorge with brown trout
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Email: brian.avila@colostate.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Avila, B.W., K.P. Huyvaert, D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. Factors affecting post-challenge survival of Flavobacterium psychrophilum in susceptible Rainbow Trout. Pathogens 2022, 11, 1318 DOI:10.3390/pathogens11111318 | Download August 2022
Avila, B.W., D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. Survival of Whirling Disease Resistant Rainbow Trout Fry in the Wild: A Comparison of Two Strains. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 30:280-290. DOI: 10.1002/aah.10040 | Download November 2018
Avila, B.W., D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. Biotic and abiotic factors affecting survival of two Rainbow Trout strains. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 43:786-793. DOI:10.1002/nafm.10895 | Download March 2023
Avila B.W., D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. 2022. Dual Resistance to Flavobacterium psychrophilum and Myxobolus cerebralis in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Walbaum) . Journal of Fish Diseases DOI:10.1111/jfd.13605 | Abstract | Download February 2022
Project Completion Date
Whirling Disease-Resistant Trout Evaluation June 2013
Integrated Ecosystem Modeling Fish In the Grand Canyon September 2024
Estimating population size and demographic parameters for Rio Grande Sucker and Rio Grande Chub at Baca National Wildlife Refuge July 2024
Whirling Disease-Resistant Trout Evaluation June 2012
Investigating Bacterial Coldwater Disease in Salmonids June 2021
Survival of rainbow trout fry in the wild: a comparison of two whirling disease resistant strains June 2017
Presentations Presentation Date
Avila, B.W., E.R. Fetherman, D.L. Winkelman. Raft and floating antenna systems for detecting PIT-tagged fish in rivers. 2014 Annual Meeting of the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, March 4-6, Laramie, WY. March 2014
Avila, B.W., D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. Whirling disease resistant Rainbow Trout fry survival: a comparison of two strains. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society. Anchorage, AK. May 2018
Avila, B.W., D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. Quality vs. quantity: manipulating rearing density as a strategy for increasing survival of Rainbow Trout fry pre- and post-stocking. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society. Anchorage, AK. May 2018
Avila, B.W., D.L. Winkelman, and E.R. Fetherman. Quality vs. quantity: manipulating rearing density as a strategy for increasing survival of Rainbow Trout fry pre- and post-stocking. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Laramie, WY. March 2018
Avila, B.W., D.L. Winkelman, E.R. Fetherman. Evaluation of resistant Rainbow Trout fry stocking in Colorado February 2015
Avila, B. W., W. L. Kendall, C. B. Yackulic, and J. Korman. 2024. Sharing abundance: integrating count data with capture-recapture data in a marginalized, multistate Jolly-Seber framework. 154th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-19 September 2024. September 2024