Fisheries, Subsistence, and Habitat
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Search Again| Division: | Commercial Fish |
| Title: | Subsistence salmon harvests in the Kuskokwim area, 2017. |
| Author: | Lipka C. G., T. Hamazaki, D. Koster, M. Horne-Brine, and J. Esquible. |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Data Series No. 21-07, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) in partnership with Orutsararmiut Native Council (ONC) in Bethel conducted a voluntary survey program to estimate subsistence salmon harvest for the Kuskokwim Management Area in 2017. Harvest information was collected through postseason household interviews and harvest calendars. Simple random sampling and stratified random sampling techniques were used, based on community size and user group designations, to select households to be interviewed. For the community of Bethel, subsistence salmon harvest information was collected by ONC. ADF&G surveyed the remaining communities in the Kuskokwim Management Area. In 2017, Kuskokwim Management Area subsistence users were subject to restrictions concerning the harvest of Chinook salmon. Households were surveyed in 28 communities in the Kuskokwim Management Area, including most communities along the Kuskokwim River and all communities within South Kuskokwim Bay. Subsistence salmon harvest estimates for 2017 were 22,150 Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 54,459 chum (O. keta), 53,522 sockeye (O. nerka), 40,082 coho (O. kisutch), and 2,291 pink salmon (O. gorbuscha). |
| Keywords: | Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, subsistence, harvest, Bethel, Aniak, Kuskokwim River, Kuskokwim Bay, Kuskokwim Area. |