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Search Again| Division: | Commercial Fish |
| Title: | Age, sex, and size composition of Pacific herring, from the Kodiak area, Alaska, 1981–87 |
| Author: | Burkey, C., Jr. and J. Reid |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, Regional Information Report 4K88-34, Kodiak |
| Abstract: | The Kodiak management area comprises all waters of Alaska from the southern entrance of Imuya Bay near Kilikak Rocks north to Cape Douglas, including Kodiak, Afognak and adjacent islands (Figure 1). Prior to 1981 herring catches were recorded using the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) salmon statistical area descriptions (Figure 2). In 1981 the area was divided into seven regulatory commercial fishing districts for herring; Afognak, General, Uganik, Uyak, Sturgeon, Alitak, and Mainland (Figure 3). Theses were further subdivided into 49 statistical areas (sections). Statistical area boundaries were revised in 1985 increasing the number of statistical areas to 72 (Figure 1). Table 1 shows the relationship between past and present herring statistical areas. These districts and statistical areas are described in ADF&G (1986). |
| Keywords: | Alaska Kodiak Pacific herring age composition sex composition size composition statistical areas sac-roe |