Fish Inventory Site FSH0226A25

Coordinates (dec. deg.): 62.38032°, -150.99960°
Legal Description: S027N009W31
Region: South Central

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

Elevation: 446 m

Site Comments: Pickle Creek, at confluence and old beaver dam. Shocked above (<1 % grad) and below beaver dam, (2 % grad).

Survey Date: Sep 05, 2002

Survey FSH02-26A25

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

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: 6.8° C Conductivity: 16.0 μS/cm Stream Stage: Medium
Water Color: Clear Turbidity: Stream Gradient: 1.0%
Qualitative Velocity: Fast 48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff: None/Trace
Substrates: Gravel, Cobble
Channel Dimensions:
  (OHW) (Wetted)
Stream Width: 1.8 m 1.6 m
Thalweg Depth: 0.28 m
Rosgen Channel Classification: (F4) Entrenched meandering riffle/pool channel on low gradients with high width/depth ratio.
Visit Comments: None

Vegetation Classification

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

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (A)
EF Time(s): 660 Efficiency:
Channel Type:

Fish Observations

Species: juvenile/adult Dolly Varden Life History: Unknown
Total Fish Observed: 6 Fish Measured: 3 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 44 Max: 78 Mean: 55
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (6)
 

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