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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Assessment of the recreational marine fisheries in eastern Prince William Sound, 1999 |
| Author: | Miller, M |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Data Series No. 01-2, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | A creel survey was conducted in 1999 to estimate harvest and effort in the Simpson Bay and Sheep Bay fisheries of eastern Prince William Sound. A pilot study was also conducted to determine the need to expand current groundfish catch sampling to the port of Cordova. Unguided clients in floating lodges and tent camps were thought to account for a significant percent of the angler effort in the marine waters of eastern Prince William Sound. Since these anglers do not return to port after each trip, a port-based survey would not encounter them. A dual survey design, with marine interviews and survey cards, was used to collect harvest and effort data from these anglers. Of the 843 anglers that were interviewed, 63% were lodge anglers, 22% were unguided anglers, and 16% were guided anglers. Lodge anglers fished an estimated 1,419 (SE = 81) angler-days from 27 June through 31 August 1999 and harvested an estimated 320 (SE = 63) rockfish Sebastes, of which 152 (SE = 35) were non-pelagic. Their estimated coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch harvest was 502 (SE = 92) fish. |
| Keywords: | eastern Prince William Sound, rockfish, Sebastes, Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, lingcod, Ophiodon elongatus, salmon shark, Lamna ditropis, pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, marine creel survey, guided, unguided, lodge angler, port sampling, catch, harvest, effort, angler success |