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Search Again| Division: | Multi-Divisional Collaboration |
| Title: | Review of salmon escapement goals in the Kodiak Management Area, 2019. |
| Author: | McKinley, T. R., K. L. Schaberg, M. J. Witteveen, M. B. Foster, M. L. Wattum, and T. L. Vincent. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Manuscript Series No. 19-07, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | An interdivisional team of staff from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game met beginning in March 2019 to review existing Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus) escapement goals in the Kodiak Management Area (KMA) and make recommendations to the directors of the divisions of Commercial Fisheries and Sport Fish. The KMA salmon escapement goals had been reviewed previously in 2016. The current review team recommends 21 goals remain unchanged, and 1 goal be revised (Olds River coho salmon [O. kisutch] lower bound sustainable escapement goal of 500). In addition, a change in designation from a biological escapement goal to a sustainable escapement goal is recommended for 3 goals (Afognak River sockeye salmon [O. nerka], Upper Station late-run sockeye salmon, and Buskin River coho salmon). When combined with existing escapement goals, these staff recommendations to the directors of the divisions of Commercial and Sport Fisheries result in 22 escapement goals for the KMA in 2019: 12 for sockeye salmon, 2 for Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), 4 for coho salmon, 3 for pink salmon (O. gorbuscha), and 1 for chum salmon (O. keta). |
| Keywords: | Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus spp., escapement goal, Kodiak, stock status |