Chinook Salmon Research Initiative
Karluk River Chinook Salmon

Commercial Harvest, Genetics, and Coded Wire Tags

Project Summary

Project Name:

Kodiak Area Chinook Salmon Commercial Harvest, Genetics, and Coded Wire Tags
Overview:

Age, sex, length, coded-wire tag, and genetic sampling of the harvest of Chinook salmon in Kodiak Management Area commercial fisheries. A coded-wire tag recovery study in the Kodiak Management Area was conducted in 1994 and 1997 to 1999. Results from this work showed hatchery stocks from British Columbia, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest dominated the samples. However, genetic stock identification of the catch has never been conducted. In 2014, tissues, age, sex, and length composition information, and coded wire tag information will be sampled from the major commercial fisheries in the Kodiak Management Area where significant catches of Chinook salmon occur.

Location:

Kodiak Management Area near Kodiak
Total Project Cost:

$750,000 (Combined Westward Area Marine Sampling project - Commercial and Sport)
Project Dates:

2014, 2015, 2016
Project Type(s):

Marine commercial harvest sampling
Life Stage:

Adult
Stock:

Kodiak Management Area stocks

Contacts

Alaska Department of Fish and Game
351 Research Court
Kodiak, AK 99615

Fishery Biologist 3

Matthew Foster
Phone: (907) 486-1857
Email: matt.foster@alaska.gov