Creel and escapement statistics for the Alagnak River during 1988
Brookover TE. 1989. Creel and escapement statistics for the Alagnak River during 1988. Fishery Data Series. 89. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish. Juneau, AK
A roving creel survey was conducted on a 19.2 kilometer (11.5 mile) section of the lower Alagnak River from 24 Hune through 4 August 1988. An estimated 13,287 angler-hours of sport fishing effort were expended on the lower river. This effort resulted in a catch (fish kept plus fish released) of 2,954 chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 1,393 pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), 538 chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), 79 coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), and 121 rainbow trout(Oncorhynchus mykiss). Of this catch, an estimated 1,243 chinook salmon, 49 coho salmon, 178 chum salmon, 162 pink salmon, and 18 rainbow trout were harvested (kept). The spawning escapement of chinook salmon into the Alagnak drainage during 1988 was estimated to be 7,900 fish. Age 1.3 chinook salmon were the most abundant age group in both the sport harvest (53 percent) and spawning escapement (61 percent).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Brookover, Thomas
- Date of Issue
- 1989-04
- Publisher
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish
- Units
- ALAG , KATM
- Keywords
- age composition, Alagnak River, Bristol Bay, Chinook Salmon, Chum Salmon, Coho Salmon, Creel Survey, Escapement, fish surveys, Katmai National Park And Preserve, Pink Salmon, Rainbow Trout, sport catch, sport effort, Sport harvest