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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Karluk River steelhead population assessment operational plan. |
| Author: | Polum, T. B., and A. Reimer. |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Regional Operational Plan ROP.SF.2A.2018.03, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | A mark?recapture experiment will be implemented in 2018 and 2019 in the Karluk River drainage following a similar pilot study completed in 2017 to attempt to estimate the spawning abundance of steelhead in the Karluk River. At least 127 steelhead will be marked prior to spawning during April and May 2018 and 2019 in known overwintering and spawning areas and all emigrating kelts will be recaptured at the Karluk River weir from mid-May through July 15 and examined for tags. This study will update previous population estimates last conducted in 1997. |
| Keywords: | steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss, mark?recapture, abundance, Karluk River, age-sex-length. |