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Search Again| Division: | Sport Fish |
| Title: | Smolt Abundance and Summary Statistics for Kenai River Coho Salmon, 2007 |
| Author: | Massengill, R. |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Data Series No. 13-42, Anchorage |
| Abstract: | In spring 2007, 80,494 wild coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) smolt were captured within the Kenai River drainage, marked with an adipose finclip, injected with a coded wire tag (CWT), and released live at the Moose River by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Some of these fish were recovered as adults from the Kenai River sport fishery in 2008. Of the 3,018 adult coho salmon examined for adipose fins from Kenai River sport fish harvest samples in 2008, 197 did not have an adipose fin and carried a coded-wire tag. Based on these results, an estimated 1,227,344 (SE 83,999) coho salmon smolt emigrated from the Kenai River in 2007. Primary summary statistics from all Kenai River coho salmon research program elements since 1991 are provided. |
| Keywords: | coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, population assessment, weir, index, coded wire tag, Kenai River, smolt abundance, wild salmon, summary statistics |