Tributary homing of sockeye salmon at Brooks and Karluk lakes, Alaska
Hartman WL and Raleigh RF. 1964. Tributary homing of sockeye salmon at Brooks and Karluk lakes, Alaska. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 21(3):485-504
Sockeye salmon homing behavior was studied at Brooks Lake in Katmai National Monument in 1960. Groups of fish were seined from various stream mouths and marked with tags. The strength of preference for a tributary was determined by comparing the number of tagged fish from various groups on various spawning grounds. Eighty-three percent of 958 fish tagged were recovered in stream and lake surveys. The authors then conducted two similar studies at Karluk Lake on Kodiak Island in 1961. They conclude that sockeye salmon home to particular tributaries and that large spawning runs are likely to be complex heterogeneous assemblages of discrete stocks.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Hartman, Wilbur; Raleigh, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1963-05-07
- Units
- KATM
- Keywords
- Anadromous Fish, Behavior, Brooks Lake, Brooks River, Fish, Fish Habitat, Headwater Creek, Hidden Creek, Homing, karluk lake, Katmai National Park And Preserve, Oncorhynchus nerka, One Shot Creek, Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Spawning, Surveys, Tagging, Up-a-Tree Creek, West Creek