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| Title: | Escapement goal review of Copper and Bering rivers, and Prince William Sound Pacific salmon stocks, 2014. |
| Author: | Moffitt, S. D., R. E. Brenner, J. W. Erickson, M. J. Evenson, R. A. Clark, and T. R. McKinley. |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Manuscript No. 14-05, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | This report is a summary of escapement goal reviews and recommendations for major salmon stocks of the Copper River, Bering River, and Prince William Sound Management Area. 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, 5 sockeye O. nerka, and 16 pink O. gorbuscha, salmon stocks (8 goals for each even- and odd-year brood line). The committee also reviewed escapement data for Gulkana River Chinook salmon, but decided not to consider establishing an escapement goal until an ongoing radiotelemetry evaluation of the escapement monitoring program is completed. All of the existing goals were adopted in 2002, 2005, 2008, or 2011 except for the 2 coho salmon goals that were adopted in 1991. The committee recommends no change to the existing escapement goals and no new goals be created at this time. |
| Keywords: | Copper River, Bering River, Prince William Sound, escapement goal, biological escapement goal, sustainable escapement goal, Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, chum salmon O. keta, sockeye salmon O. nerka, coho salmon O. kisutch, pink salmon O. gorbuscha. |