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Division: Sport Fish
Title: Operational Plan: Upper Cook Inlet commercial Eastside set gillnet Chinook salmon harvest composition study, 2015.
Author: Eskelin, A., and A. W. Barclay.
Year: 2015
Report ID: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Regional Operational Plan ROP.SF.2A.2015.22, Anchorage.
Abstract: Genetic tissue and age, sex, and length composition information will be collected from harvested Chinook salmon in the Upper Cook Inlet Eastside set gillnet (ESSN) commercial fishery in 2015. The primary goals of the study are to estimate the proportion and harvest of Chinook salmon in the ESSN commercial fishery by reporting group for each temporal and geographic stratum and for the entire 2015 season. The 4 reporting groups to apportion the harvest are as follows: Kenai River mainstem, Kasilof River mainstem, Kenai River tributaries, and Cook Inlet other. Age, sex, and length composition will be estimated for each temporal and geographic stratum and for the entire 2015 season.
Keywords: Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Kenai River, Eastside set gillnet, commercial fishery, ESSN, Upper Cook Inlet, mixed stock analysis, MSA, stock-specific harvest, Chinook Salmon Research Initiative, CSRI.