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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Operational plan: Russian River early run sockeye salmon run timing study. |
| Author: | Eskelin, T., and A. W. Barclay. |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Regional Operational Plan ROP.SF.2A.2018.10, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | This study will provide an estimate of the stock composition of early-run sockeye salmon in the lower Kenai River at the RM 13.7 sonar site each year for 2018?2020. A prior study estimated the mean time it takes Russian River bound early-run sockeye salmon to migrate from the Kenai River sonar at RM 13.7 to the inriver sport fishery at Kenai River RM 73.0 and to the Russian River weir near lower Russian Lake. The second phase of this early-run sockeye salmon investigation will be to estimate the stock composition of sockeye salmon passing RM 13.7 prior to July 1 in a genetic mixed-stock analysis. Based on the previous genetic baseline analysis, Kenai River sockeye salmon have sufficient genetic variation to accurately estimate the stock composition using mixed stock analysis techniques for the following 3 reporting groups: ?early-run Russian River,? ?late-run Russian River,? and ?Kenai River other.? |
| Keywords: | Russian River, Kenai River, early run, sockeye salmon, MSA, mixed stock analysis, genetic stock identification. |