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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Operational Plan: Chinook salmon creel survey and inriver netting study, 2018?2020. |
| Author: | Perschbacher, J. |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Regional Operational Plan ROP.SF.2A.2018.09, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | A creel survey will be conducted to estimate sport angler effort, catch, and harvest of large (greater than or equal to 75 cm mid eye to tail fork [METF] length) 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). Creel survey estimates will be geographically stratified in relation to the RM 13.7 Kenai River Chinook salmon sonar to provide angler effort, and the catch and harvest of large Chinook salmon. A standardized inriver netting study will be conducted in the Kenai River at RM 8.6 to index abundance and estimate the age, sex, and length (ASL) composition of large early- and late-run Chinook salmon. Inseason estimates of Chinook salmon catch and harvest, used in conjunction with sonar passage estimates, and inseason catch rates and the lengths of returning Chinook salmon from the inriver netting study are used by fisheries managers for inseason management decisions to achieve escapement goals. This plan covers the creel survey and inriver netting studies for the 2018?2020 seasons. |
| Keywords: | Kenai River, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Chinook salmon, creel survey, effort, harvest, gillnet, CPUE, age composition, tangle net. |