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Division: Sport Fish
Title: Operational Plan: Upper Cook Inlet commercial Eastside set gillnet Chinook salmon harvest composition study.
Author: Eskelin, T., and A. W. Barclay.
Year: 2016
Report ID: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Regional Operational Plan ROP.SF.2A.2016.12, 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 2016. The primary goals of the study are to estimate the proportion and harvest by genetic reporting group of Chinook salmon in the ESSN commercial fishery both within temporal and geographic strata and for the entire 2016 season. The harvest will be apportioned by 4 genetic reporting groups: Kenai River mainstem, Kasilof River mainstem, Kenai River tributaries, and Cook Inlet other. Age, sex, and length composition will also be estimated for each temporal and geographic stratum and for the entire 2016 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.