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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Escapement goal review of Copper and Bering Rivers and Prince William Sound Pacific salmon stocks, 2020. |
| Author: | Joy, P. J., S. B. Haught, R. E. Brenner, S. Miller, J. W. Erickson, J. W. Savereide, and T. R. McKinley |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Manuscript No. 21-02, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | This report is a summary of escapement goal recommendations for major salmon stocks of the Upper Copper River and Prince William Sound Management Areas. Escapement goals were reviewed based on the Policy for the Management of Sustainable Salmon Fisheries (5 AAC 39.222) and the Policy for Statewide Salmon Escapement Goals (5 AAC 39.223) adopted by the Alaska Board of Fisheries into regulation in 2001. The escapement goal committee reviewed 29 existing escapement goals, including 1 Chinook Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 5 chum O. keta, 2 coho O. kisutch, 16 pink O. gorbuscha (8 goals for each even- and odd-year brood line), and 5 sockeye O. nerka salmon stocks. The escapement goal committee recommends escapement goals be updated for 5 stocks: Copper River Chinook salmon, Copper River Delta and Bering River coho salmon, and Bering River and Coghill Lake sockeye salmon. The escapement goal committee recommends that no modifications be made to the other existing salmon escapement goals and that no goals be eliminated or created at this time. |
| Keywords: | Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, chum salmon O. keta, sockeye salmon O. nerka, coho salmon O. kisutch, pink salmon O. gorbuscha, escapement goal, biological escapement goal, sustainable escapement goal, Copper River, Bering River, Prince William Sound. |