Effort and catch statistics for the sport fishery in the Naknek River, 1987
Minard RE and Brookover TE. 1988. Effort and catch statistics for the sport fishery in the Naknek River, 1987. Fishery Data Series. 49. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish. Juneau, AK
An estimated 70,373 angler-hours of effort were expended by recreational anglers fishing the Naknek River from 1 June through 30 October 1987. Anglers caught (landed) and harvested (kept) an estimated 14,250 and 11,419 chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 2,292 and 2,187 coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, and 7,657 and 1,169 rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri. Age 1.4 chinook salmon (53 percent) and age 5 rainbow trout (40 percent) dominated the harvest. Anglers using bait out-fished those using artificial lures nearly 2 to 1 when fishing for chinook salmon in the lower river. The spawning escapement of chinook salmon, as determined by aerial survey counts of live fish expanded for missed areas, was esitmated to be 6,500 fish. The age composition of the escapement closely approximated that of the sport harvest.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Minard, R; Brookover, Thomas
- Date of Issue
- 1988-04
- Publisher
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish
- Units
- KATM , SWAN
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Creel Survey, Escapement, Freshwater Fish, Katmai National Park and Preserve AK, Naknek river, Rainbow Trout, sockey salmon, Sport harvest