SWAN Monitoring Salmon
Southwest Alaska Network. SWAN Monitoring Salmon. 1980. National Park Service
Sockeye salmon are critical to the cultural, economic, and ecological integrity of the Bristol Bay region in Alaska. They have sustained people living in the region and provided for the majority of their subsistence diet for centuries. In addition to the sockeye caught by local residents, the Bristol Bay commercial fleet harvests around 20 million sockeye salmon annually valued at more than $100 million, making it the world’s largest and most valuable commercial sockeye fishery. Ecologically, sockeye salmon returning from the sea provide energy and nutrients vital to the freshwater ecosystems in which they spawn, as well as the neighboring riparian and terrestrial ecosystems. Our monitoring objectives are to: Compile past and present data from various agencies monitoring spawner abundance, distribution, and timing of sockeye salmon from sampled systems in Southwest Alaska parklands. Estimate trends in spawner abundance, distribution, and timing of sockeye salmon from sampled systems in Southwest Alaska parklands. We pursue these objectives in Kenai Fjords National Park and Katmai and Lake Clark national parks and preserves.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- KATM , KEFJ , LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- salmon
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Fishes
Program
Products
- Salmon
- Influences of spawning timing, water temperature, and climatic warming on early life history phenology in western Alaska sockeye salmon
- Salmon
- Recent trends in southwest Alaska salmon stocks
- So goes the snow: Alaska snowpack changes and impacts on Pacific salmon in a warming climate
- Salmon
- Salmon
- Escapement Monitoring Inseason and Historical Data, Kuskokwim Management Area Commercial Salmon Fisheries