Fish inventory and anadromous cataloging in the Susitna River, Matanuska River, and Knik River basins, 2003 and 2011
By: by Jonathan M. Kirsch and Joseph D. Buckwalter and Daniel J. Reed
Contributors: Buckwalter, Joseph D., author; Reed, Daniel J., author; Alaska. Division of Sport Fish. Research and Technical Services; Alaska. Division of Sport Fish; Alaska. Division of Commercial Fisheries
Series: Fishery data series -- no. 14-04; Fishery data series -- no. 14-04.
Publisher: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish, Research and Technical Services
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Anchorage
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1291
Subjects: Anadromous fishes; Statistics; Habitat; Fish surveys; Electric fishing
Description: During August 2003 and July-August 2011, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish conducted an inventory of stream fish assemblages and associated aquatic and riparian habitats in a 53,445 square-km. study area comprising the upper Cook Inlet basin bounded by the Alaska Range to the north and west, the Chugach Mountains to the south, and the Copper River basin to the east. (In addition to the Susitna River watershed, this included Maguire Creek and the watersheds of the Matanuska and Knik rivers.) Some 357 study sites were visited in streams ranging in size from wadeable headwaters to the mainstem Susitna River. At each site, data was collected describing site location, aquatic habitat, riparian vegetation, and fish-assemblage composition. Fish were collected primarily using backpack and boat-mounted electrofishers. In total, 19 fish species, representing 12 genuses, and 7 families were found. Anadromous fish were documented at 114 study sites. As a result of this inventory, a total stream length of 830 km. of previously unlisted anadromous fish habitat was added to the State of Alaska's "Catalog of Waters Important for the Spawning, Rearing or Migration of Anadromous Fishes." The primary fish-collection gear type used was single-pass electrofishing.
Notes: "Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Divisions of Sport Fish and Commercial Fisheries"--Cover.

"January 2014."

This document describes the full multi-basin inventory in detail. Preliminary results of the August 2011 fish inventory in the upper Susitna River subbasin were published in: Synopsis of ADF&G's upper Susitna drainage fish inventory, August 2011 / principal investigator, Joseph D. Buckwalter. However, that synopsis contains a list of species found at electrofished reaches in the upper Susitna River subbasin (Table 2) and 14 maps (plus index map) of the subbasin that are not included in this full inventory.

LC copy bound in 2 volumes: volume 1, pages i-181; volume 2, pages 182-1291.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-46).

Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Funded by: 1) qualified outer continental shelf oil and gas revenues by the Coastal Impact Assistance Program, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Interior; 2) the Alaska Energy Authority; and 3) State Wildlife Grant T-10-4 under Project P-10