Creel and escapement statistics for the Alagnak River, Alaska during 1989
Dunaway DO. 1990. Creel and escapement statistics for the Alagnak River, Alaska during 1989. Fishery Data Series. 90-9. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish. Anchorage, AK
A roving creel survey was conducted on a 19.2 kilometer (11.5 mile) section of the lower Alagnak River from 28 June through 6 Auguest 1989. An estimated 19,723 angler-hours of sport fishing effort were expended on the lower river. This effort resulted in a catch (fish kept plus fish released) of 3,726 chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 0 pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, 473 chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, 55 coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch, and 1558 rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Of this catch, an estimated 1,333 chinook salmon, 55 coho salmon, 14 chum salmon, and 14 rainbow trout were harvested (kept). The spawning escapement of chinook salmon into the Alagnak drainage during 1989 was estimated to be 5,400 fish. Age 1.4 chinook salmon was the most abundant age group in the sport harvest (58 percent).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dunaway, Dan
- Date of Issue
- 1990
- Publisher
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish
- Units
- ALAG , KATM , SWAN
- Keywords
- age composition, Alagnak River, Bristol Bay, Chinook Salmon, Chum Salmon, Coho Salmon, Creel, Escapement, Fish Studies, Katmai National Park And Preserve, Pink Salmon, Rainbow Trout, sport catch, sport effort, Sport harvest