Historical sockeye salmon data inventory Lake Clark, Alaska

Ramstad, Kristina

Several agencies and numerous individuals have worked in the Lake Clark system since the 1920s. Nearly 80 years of salmon spawning surveys, 20 years of daily sockeye salmon escapement counts, 10 years of weather data and numerous short-term projects have been conducted in the Lake Clark ecosystem. Investigators from different agencies have used different methods to collect, analyze and archive their data. This paper represents an effort to outline existing data sets so that researchers, managers, or the general public can access the information and learn from historic work completed in this system. This report is currently a work in progress, information and data are added as they are discovered. There is still a significant amount of material missing which will be added through time. I made no effort to mesh similar data collected by different agencies but included notes on efforts they made to do so when possible. Specifics on methodologies were included where available. The information presented here is organized by agency. Data sets, when available, are in attached Excel spreadsheets.