Fish Inventory Site FSH0226B14

Coordinates (dec. deg.): 62.55773°, -150.36599°
Legal Description: S029N006W34
Region: South Central

Datum: NAD83
Quad Name / ITM: Talkeetna C-1
AWC Stream #:
Stream Name: Trapper Creek

Elevation: 262 m

Site Comments: Inlet of Trapper Creek headwater lake.

Survey Date: Sep 04, 2002

Survey FSH02-26B14

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

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: 8.2° C Conductivity: 22.0 μS/cm Stream Stage: Medium
Water Color: Humic Turbidity: Stream Gradient: 1.0%
Qualitative Velocity: 48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff: None/Trace
Substrates: Silt/Clay, Gravel
Channel Dimensions:
  (OHW) (Wetted)
Stream Width: 1.3 m 0.7 m
Thalweg Depth: 0.16 m
Rosgen Channel Classification: (F6) 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 Subarctic Lowland Sedge Wet Meadow
5-10 Closed Black Spruce Forest
10-20
20-30 Subarctic Lowland Sedge Wet Meadow

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (A) Trap Duration(h): 0
EF Time(s): 204 Efficiency:
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)

Fish Observations

Species: juvenile coho salmon Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 11 Fish Measured: 6 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 53 Max: 78 Mean: 63
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (11)
 
Species: juvenile rainbow trout Life History: Unknown
Total Fish Observed: 6 Fish Measured: 3 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 53 Max: 62 Mean: 56
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (6)
 

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