Distributions of fishes in fresh water of Katmai National Monument, Alaska, and their zoogeographical implications
Heard WR, Wallace RL, Hartman WL. 1969. Distributions of fishes in fresh water of Katmai National Monument, Alaska, and their zoogeographical implications. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report-Fisheries. Special scientific report -- fisheries no. 590. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Washington, DC
The purposes of this paper are (1) to report the known occurrence and distribution of fresh-water fishes in Katmai National Monument and (2) to consider the zoogeographical implications of these findings. Research for this paper began at Brooks Lake in 1940 and was expanded in 1961 to include all of the Naknek River system. In 1962, collection began of fish from other drainage systems in the Monument. Twenty-four species of fish occur in the Bristol Bay drainages of the Monument, but only eight species were collected in streams draining into Shelikof Strait. Naknek Lake, the downstream terminus of the lake system, contains 24 known species and each upstream lake contains fewer species than the one into which it drains. The present distribution of fish in this system is discussed in terms of the sequential timing of species invasion and the postglacial development of barriers.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Heard, William; Wallace, Richard; Hartman, Wilbur
- Date of Issue
- 1969-10
- Publisher
- US Fish and Wildlife Service. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
- Units
- ALAG , HIST , KATM
- Keywords
- Anadromous Fish, Animal Studies, Aquatic Sciences, Baseline Inventory, Brooks Lake, Distribution, ehistory, Freshwater Fish, History, Katmai National Park And Preserve, Naknek Lake