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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Sport effort, harvest, and escapement of coho salmon in selected Kodiak Management Area streams, 1997 and 1998. |
| Author: | Begich, R. N., L. J. Schwarz, and T. Motis |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Data Series No. 00-9, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | Creel censuses were conducted during coho salmon sport fisheries in 1997 and 1998 on Unalaska and Afognak islands. During the 1997 creel census at the Nateekin River on Unalaska Island, 330 coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch were harvested and 232 were released by anglers. In 1998, creel censuses were conducted at three remote Afognak Island area fishing locations. At Discoverer Bay, 487 coho salmon were harvested and 1,267 were released; at Pauls Bay, 844 coho salmon were harvested and 1,557 released; and at Pauls Lake, 12 coho salmon were harvested and 422 were released. During October 1997 and 1998, mark-recapture experiments were conducted to estimate the number of coho salmon spawning at the American and Olds rivers on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The estimated number of coho salmon in the American River was 3,576 (SE = 1,263) fish in 1997 and 1,263 (SE = 168) fish in 1998. The estimated abundance of spawning coho salmon in the Olds River was 5,872 (SE = 559) fish in 1997 and 2,199 (SE = 234) fish in 1998. |
| Keywords: | coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Nateekin River, Unalaska Island, Afognak Island, Discoverer Bay, Pauls Bay, Pauls Lake, Kodiak Island, American River, Olds River, creel census, spawning abundance. |