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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Operational Plan: Kenai River Chinook salmon creel survey, inriver gillnetting, and age composition study, 2017. |
| Author: | Perschbacher, J. |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Regional Operational Plan ROP.SF.2A.2017.14, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | A creel survey will be conducted to estimate sport angler effort, catch, and harvest of early- and late-run Chinook salmon in the lower Kenai River between the Warren Ames Bridge (river mile [RM] 5.1) and Slikok Creek (RM 18.9) in 2017. Creel survey estimates will be geographically stratified in relation to the RM 13.7 Kenai River Chinook salmon sonar to provide angler effort, catch, and harvest of large Chinook salmon (more than 75 cm mid eye to tail fork [METF] length) upstream and downstream of the RM 13.7 sonar. A standardized inriver drift gillnetting study will be conducted in the Kenai River at RM 8.6 from 16 May to 20 August to estimate the age, sex, and length composition of early- and late-run Chinook salmon. A tangle net (4.0-inch stretched mesh) will be incorporated into the existing gillnetting study to examine possible ASL bias and incidental harm to fish during the late run. Data collected from the creel survey and inriver netting study, combined with sonar estimates of abundance, will be used for inseason management and postseason stock assessment of Kenai River Chinook salmon. |
| Keywords: | Kenai River, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Chinook salmon, creel survey, effort, harvest, gillnet, CPUE, age composition, tangle net. |