Fish Inventory Site FSH0223B92

Coordinates (dec. deg.): 62.27757°, -150.89127°
Legal Description: S025N009W11
Region: South Central

Datum: NAD83
Quad Name / ITM: Talkeetna B-2
AWC Stream #:
Stream Name: Windy Creek

Elevation: 274 m

Site Comments: Downstream from site 23B93.

Survey Date: Aug 28, 2002

Survey FSH02-23B92

Project Supervisor: Cecil Rich, Alaska Department of Fish and Game — Anchorage, AK
Observers: Cecil Rich, Sharon Delsack

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: 11.9° C Conductivity: 20.0 μS/cm Stream Stage: Medium
Water Color: Clear Turbidity: Stream Gradient: 3.0%
Qualitative Velocity: Fast 48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff: Moderate
Substrates: Gravel, Sand, Cobble
Channel Dimensions:
  (OHW) (Wetted)
Stream Width: 2.5 m 2.5 m
Thalweg Depth: 0.4 m
Rosgen Channel Classification: (C4) Low gradient, meandering, point-bar, riffle/pool, alluvial channels with broad, well-defined floodplains.
Visit Comments: None

Vegetation Classification

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

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (A)
EF Time(s): 193 Efficiency:
Channel Type:
Comments: Additional fish measured (mm): 43, 53.

Fish Observations

Species: juvenile coho salmon Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 22 Fish Measured: 10 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 35 Max: 90 Mean: 56
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (22)
Comments: Additional fish measured (mm): 43, 53.
 
Species: juvenile rainbow trout Life History: Unknown
Total Fish Observed: 2 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 66 Max: 66 Mean: 66
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (2)
 

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