Download or read book Operational Plan Monitoring the Coho Salmon Sport Fishery on the Naknek River 2023 written by Lee K. Borden and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project will survey the coho salmon sport fishery on the Naknek River in 2023 to estimate angler-days of effort by type of angler (guided vs. unguided), catch and harvest rates of coho salmon, as well as sex, length, and weight of coho salmon in the sport harvest. Data collected from onsite surveys will be used to document angler use patterns and to design regulations that will accommodate growth in the sport fishery and maintain angling opportunity. Results will also guide review of current regulations and will be used to assess the effectiveness of current regulations.

Download or read book Operational Plan Monitoring the Chinook Salmon Sport Fishery on the Nushagak River Drainage 2023 written by Lee K. Borden and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project surveys the Chinook salmon sport fishery on the Nushagak River. Information will be collected on angler-days of effort by type of angler (guided vs. unguided) and gear (bait or no bait), catch and harvest rates of Chinook salmon, as well as age, sex, length, weight, and genetics of Chinook salmon in the sport harvest. Data will be reported to fisheries managers in Dillingham daily, providing real-time information regarding sport fishing success as well as the composition of the harvest. Data collected from onsite surveys will be used to document use patterns and design regulations that will accommodate growth of the sport fishery and maintain angling opportunity. Results will also guide review of current regulations and will be used to assess the effectiveness of current regulations in maintaining compliance with the management plan.

Download or read book Operational Plan Monitoring the Chinook Salmon Sport Fishery on the Naknek River 2022 written by Tim N. B. Adickes and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project surveys the Chinook salmon sport fishery on the Naknek River. Information will be collected on angler-days of effort by type of angler (guided vs. unguided), catch and harvest rates of Chinook salmon, as well as age (from scales), sex, length, and weight of Chinook salmon in the sport harvest. Data collected from onsite surveys will be used to document angler use patterns and to design regulations that will accommodate growth in the sport fishery and maintain angling opportunity. Results will also guide review of current regulations and will be used to assess the effectiveness of current regulations.

Download or read book Operational Plan Kodiak Road System Coho Salmon Stock Assessment and Escapement Monitoring 2021 2024 written by Kelly M. Krueger and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weir will be used on the Buskin River to count the inriver coho salmon run, with harvest estimated by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game statewide harvest survey, returned subsistence permits, and commercial fish tickets. Age and sex information will be collected from the Buskin River coho salmon run, and the composition of the run by age and sex will be estimated. In addition, coho salmon escapements to 9 other drainages on the Kodiak road system (KRS) will also be indexed. Sustainable escapement goals (SEGs) associated with the American, Olds, and Pasagshak Rivers will be monitored via postseason escapement foot surveys. A simultaneous postseason drone survey will also be conducted on the American and Olds Rivers to continue exploring establishment of drone-based SEGs. Multiple inseason surveys will be conducted by drone at each of the Olds, American, and Pasagshak river drainages to provide inseason run information to fishery managers; the inseason data will also be used to explore new ways of establishing SEGs for the Pasagshak River. Postseason escapement foot surveys will be conducted for the remaining 6 KRS rivers without SEGs (Monashka Creek, Pillar Creek, Sargent Creek, Russian Creek, Salonie Creek, and Roslyn River). The Pasagshak River coho salmon escapement will also be estimated with a temporally stratified mark–recapture study.

Download or read book Operational Plan written by Brittany Blain-Roth and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This operational plan details the qualitative evaluation of Chinook and coho salmon stocks in selected drainages within the Anchorage Management Area. The numbers of Chinook salmon and coho salmon will be counted in 5 different drainages by foot and float surveys. The numbers of other salmon species will be recorded as well. Data from these surveys will be used to manage the Chinook and coho salmon sport fisheries in the Anchorage Management Area.

Download or read book Operational Plan Monitoring the Coho Salmon Sport Fishery on the Nushagak River Drainage 2021 written by Lee K. Borden and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project surveys the sport fishery on the Nushagak River. Information will be collected on angler-days of effort by type of angler (guided vs. unguided) and gear (bait vs. no bait); catch and harvest rates of coho salmon; as well as sex, length, and weight of coho salmon in the sport harvest. Data collected from onsite surveys will be used to document use patterns and design regulations that accommodate growth of the sport fishery while maintaining angling opportunity. Results will also guide review of current regulations and will be used to assess the effectiveness of current regulations in maintaining compliance with the management plan.

Download or read book Operational Plan Kenai River Chinook Salmon Creel Survey and Inriver Netting Study 2021 2023 written by Eric Wood and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creel survey will be conducted to estimate sport angler effort, catch, and harvest of large (≥75 cm mid eye to tail fork length) early- and late-run Chinook salmon in the lower Kenai River between the Warren Ames Bridge (river mile [RM] 5.1) and Slikok Creek sanctuary area (RM 18.6). Creel survey estimates will be geographically stratified in relation to the RM 13.7 Kenai River Chinook salmon sonar to provide angler effort, catch, and harvest of large Chinook salmon. A standardized inriver netting project will be conducted in the Kenai River at RM 8.6 to index abundance and estimate the age, sex, and length (ASL) composition of large early- and late-run Chinook salmon. Inseason estimates of Chinook salmon catch and harvest, used in conjunction with sonar passage estimates, inseason catch rates, and the length of returning Chinook salmon from the inriver netting study are used by fisheries managers for inseason management decisions to achieve escapement goals. This plan covers the creel survey and inriver netting studies for the 2021–2023 seasons.

Download or read book Operational Plan Kenai River Coho Salmon Radiotelemetry 2023 2024 written by Anthony Alexander Eskelin and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will describe the geographic spawning distribution of radiotagged coho salmon in the Kenai River drainage for 2 years (2023 and 2024). Drift gillnets will be employed in the Kenai River to capture and tag adult coho salmon with radio transmitters. Radiotelemetry will be used to uniquely identify and track tagged coho salmon to spawning destinations. Up to 490 radio transmitters will be deployed annually between August 1 and October 31 each year. Movements of radiotagged coho salmon will be documented using a combination of fixed data-logging receiver stations and mobile tracking using boats and fixed-wing aircraft. This project will be the 2nd and 3rd year of a 3-year collaboration between the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS conducted the first year of the project in 2022, and ADF&G and USFWS will be collaborating on the radiotelemetry project in 2023 and 2024.

Download or read book Operational Plan Upper Cook Inlet Salmon Personal Use Harvest Monitoring 2022 2024 written by Adam St. Saviour and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of this study are to estimate the participation and harvest of 5 personal use salmon fisheries that occur in Upper Cook Inlet. Harvests of sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) and Chinook (O. tshawytscha) salmon will be estimated from the Kasilof gillnet fishery; harvests of sockeye, coho (O. kisutch), and pink (O. gorbuscha) salmon will be estimated from the Kasilof dipnet fishery; harvests of sockeye, Chinook, coho, and pink salmon will be estimated from the Kenai dipnet fishery; and harvest of sockeye and coho salmon will be estimated from the Fish Creek and Susitna River dipnet fisheries. Incidental harvest of flounder will also be estimated for all for fisheries.

Download or read book Operational Plan written by Diane P. Loopstra and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thermal marks and adipose finclips will be applied to hatchery-produced Chinook salmon smolt released at Ninilchik River and Crooked Creek. Thermal marks will also be applied to hatchery-produced Chinook salmon released in Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, and Resurrection Bay as well as to hatchery-produced coho salmon smolt released in Cook Inlet and Resurrection Bay. This project will be used to support other projects designed to evaluate the contribution of these hatchery-produced fish to sport fisheries and spawning escapements. Adipose finclips will also aid in the selection of naturally-produced Chinook salmon for broodstock, which will be used to produce progeny for release at Ninilchik River and Crooked Creek. Thermal marks may be used to monitor straying at broodstock collection sites.

Download or read book Amendment Battle Creek Coho Salmon Escapement and Juvenile Assessment 2023 2024 written by Holly I. Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle Creek coho salmon escapement project will provide daily and season-cumulative video weir counts of adult coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), a weekly and annual index of coho salmon escapement, and a catch-per-unit-effort index of the abundance of juvenile coho salmon. These estimates will be used by the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) to fulfill a Fish and Habitat Management Implementation Plan (FHMIP) ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to monitor the adult and juvenile coho salmon populations in Battle Creek before and after creek diversion to assess whether a population decline has occurred (FERC 2016). Additionally, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) Division of Sport Fish (SF) will use these data to better understand the size of coho salmon runs on the south side of Kachemak Bay and how these populations may be able to support sport fishing opportunities.

Download or read book Operational Plan Deshka River Salmon Weir 2021 2025 written by Daryl Lescanec and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deshka River is the largest producer and has the largest sport fishery of Chinook salmon in the North Cook Inlet Management Area. The Deshka River weir has operated seasonally since 1995. A floating, resistance-board-weir is used at river mile (RM) 7 to enumerate Chinook and coho salmon and to collect age, sex, and length data from these species. The Deshka River sustainable escapement goal (SEG) range is currently 9,000–18,000 fish for Chinook salmon and 10,200–24,100 fish for coho salmon. Data collected at this weir are used to manage sport and commercial fisheries inseason and to develop and evaluate escapement goals. This project is also used as a platform to collect harvest data upstream of RM 7, passage data of other fish species, environmental data, and it provides recapture data for the greater Susitna River drainage Chinook salmon mark–recapture project.

Download or read book Operational Plan Jim Creek Coho Salmon Escapement 2023 2027 written by Daryl Lescanec and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project will enumerate coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and other fish passage at a floating resistance-board weir in the Jim Creek drainage during 2023–2027. The number of adult coho and sockeye salmon that pass through the weir from 20 July to 30 September will be counted and estimates of sex composition for adult coho salmon and age and sex composition of adult sockeye salmon will be made for both years.

Download or read book Operational Plan written by Diane P. Loopstra and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) stocks hatchery-reared Chinook and coho salmon smolt in numerous locations throughout Southcentral Alaska to improve or create terminal sport fisheries in order to meet the demand on sport fishery resources. This project estimates adipose finclip quality and weight composition for Chinook and coho salmon smolt releases. The success of stocking hatchery smolt depends on numerous variables, many associated with the hatchery program. Marking, data collection, and reporting are monitored and standardized for each release so that meaningful comparisons can be made among hatchery releases. Meaningful comparisons may in turn allow project managers to better understand factors critical to the success of smolt stocking projects and to improve existing programs.

Download or read book Operational Plan Kenai River and Kasilof River Chinook Salmon Sonar Assessment 2023 2025 written by Brandon H. Key and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has monitored Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) passage in the Kenai River using side-looking sonar technology from 1987 to present at historical (1987–2012) and modern (2013–present) sites and with multiple updated sonar technologies. Starting in 2018, a similar sonar program to monitor Chinook salmon at the nearby Kasilof River was begun as well. This plan covers sonar project operations at Kenai RM 13.7 and Kasilof RM 8 for the 2023–2025 seasons with the goal of producing daily inseason net passage estimates of fish 75 cm or longer for the Kenai River and postseason net upstream passage estimates of fish 75 cm or longer for the Kasilof river.

Download or read book Operational Plan written by Holly I. Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2020-2024, Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) will be enumerated at 2 Anchor River sites from mid-May through early August to monitor escapement for the drainage. The south fork site, located at approximately river kilometer (RKM) 4.0, will be monitored by an Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) during high flow periods, and a resistance board weir fitted with underwater video will be used thereafter. The north fork site, located at about RKM 5.3, will be monitored by a resistance board weir with underwater video from the beginning of the Chinook salmon run in early May. Motion-detection technology will be used at each weir to record fish passage 24 hours per day. Weekly beach seine surveys will be used to capture Chinook salmon for age-sex-length (ASL) samples downstream of the confluence of the south and north forks. Chinook salmon data will be used to update estimates of the spawner-recruit relationship and harvest rate, and to provide inseason run information to managers. Coho salmon and steelhead will also be monitored in the fall of each year using the resistance board weir and video system on each fork. Coho salmon age, sex, and length will be collected via beach seining. Coho salmon escapement and harvest rate will be estimated along with an index of steelhead abundance and catch rate.

Download or read book Operational Plan Evaluation of the Feasibility of Implementing a Mark Select Fishery in the Southeast Alaska Chinook Salmon Sport Fishery written by Matthew R. Catterson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project will evaluate the feasibility of a mark selective fishery in the Southeast Alaska Chinook salmon sport fishery. Information on existing mark selective fisheries, current Alaska Department of Fish and Game Chinook management, research, and assessment programs, Southeast Alaska Chinook salmon sport fishery characteristics and enhancement operations, and stakeholder input will be synthesized. A cost-benefit analysis of mark selective fishery implementation under different scenarios will inform recommendations to fisheries managers, hatchery operators, and stakeholder groups in the context of domestic and international salmon management regimes describing the challenges and opportunities presented by mark select fisheries.