Fish Inventory Site FSH0217A80

Coordinates (dec. deg.): 61.19313°, -151.64857°
Legal Description: S013N013W29
Region: South Central

Datum: NAD83
Quad Name / ITM: Tyonek A-5
AWC Stream #:
Stream Name: Chuitna River

Elevation: 394 m

Site Comments: Site at the mouth of tributary of site 17A79.

Survey Date: Aug 14, 2002

Survey FSH02-17A80

Project Supervisor: Cecil Rich, Alaska Department of Fish and Game — Anchorage, AK
Observers: Joe Buckwalter, Michael Anderson

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: Conductivity: Stream Stage:
Water Color: Turbidity: Stream Gradient:
Qualitative Velocity: 48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff:
Substrates:
Channel Dimensions:
  (OHW) (Wetted)
Stream Width:
Thalweg Depth:
Rosgen Channel Classification:
Visit Comments: GPS, observations taken from helicopter.

Vegetation Classification

Left Bank Right Bank
Distance
From
OHW(m)
0-5
5-10
10-20
20-30

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Visual Observation, Helicopter (A)
Channel Type:
Comments: Observed large school of anadromous adult Dolly Varden.

Fish Observations

Species: adult Dolly Varden Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 200 Fish Measured: Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: Max: Mean:
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Visual Observation, Helicopter (200)
Comments: Observed large school of anadromous adult Dolly Varden.
 
Species: adult sockeye salmon Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 1 Fish Measured: Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: Max: Mean:
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Visual Observation, Helicopter (1)
 

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