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Anadromous Waters Catalog
Nomination Number 24-927


State of Alaska
Department of Fish and Game
Sportfish Division

Region: Southeastern
USGS Quad: SITKA D-7
Upper Reach Latitude 0.0000
Longitude 0.0000 (NAD83/WGS84)
Lower Reach Latitude 0.0000
Longitude 0.0000 (NAD83/WGS84)
AWC Water body # 113-95-
AWC Water body Name *Sunnyside Creek

Observations
Species Date Observed Activity
pink salmon 09/09/2023 Spawning Present

Comments: Nomination by Heather Bauscher, Eric Castro, and local elder Schooling Pink salmon at mouth during low tide waiting for flood. Additional pink salmon observed on reconnaissance 50-100m above mean high tide. Sampling team walked <100m upstream above mean high tide and observed numerous pink salmon carcasses in the riffles and along the shore. Lots of gull activity in the estuary with the lower tide and strong odor of decomposing fish. Live salmon observed swimming upstream and past our legs, moving from salt water into the stream. Latitude 57.983084 Longitude -136.257137

Name of Observer: Nyssa Russell
Submission Date: 10/09/24
ADFG Biologist:
Nomination Status: Change
Nomination Changes To The AWC
Region
Map(quad)
AWC Stream #
Stream
Name
Action
Taken
Species* Comments

Southeastern
SITKA D-7
113-95-10027
*Sunnyside Creek Adding new stream shorter than 660 feet of habitat Ps

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*Species Codes:
AC - Arctic char AW - Arctic cisco AL - Arctic lamprey
BW - Bering cisco BC - broad whitefish K - chinook salmon
CH - chum salmon CO - coho salmon CT - cutthroat trout
DV - Dolly Varden OU - eulachon HW - humpback whitefish
SF - inconnu LP - lamprey, undifferentiated LC - least cisco
OL - longfin smelt PC - Pacific lamprey P - pink salmon
OP - pond smelt OM - rainbow smelt LV - river lamprey
SM - smelt, undifferentiated S - sockeye salmon SH - Steelhead trout
ST - sturgeon, undifferentiated W - whitefish, undifferentiated
*Activity Codes:
s - spawning     r - rearing     p - present     m - migration