Harvest estimates for selected marine sport fisheries in southeast Alaska during 1998
By: by Dennis J. Hubartt, Allen E. Bingham, and Paul M. Suchanek.
Contributors: Bingham, Allen E.; Suchanek, Paul M.; Alaska. Division of Sport Fish.
Series: Fishery data series -- no. 99-15.
Publisher: Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Anchorage
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Fisheries -- Alaska, Southeastern -- Statistics.; Fishing -- Alaska, Southeastern -- Statistics.; Fishing surveys -- Alaska, Southeastern -- Statistics.
Description: Creel surveys of the Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka marine sport fisheries for chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha were conducted during 1998. Estimates from these surveys were necessary to provide data for inseason management of the chinook salmon sport fishery in Southeast Alaska to meet an allocation determined by the Alaska Board of Fisheries. The estimated harvest of chinook salmon was 27,114 in the combined Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau boat sport fisheries. Harvests of chinook salmon were less than half of the long-term average in the Ketchikan fishery, well below average in the Juneau fishery, and 178% of the long-term average in the Sitka fishery. Hatcheries in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon produced about 37% of the monitored chinook salmon harvest, with an additional 13% of the total harvest of Alaska hatchery origin. Alaska hatcheries produced 49% of the chinook salmon harvest in Ketchikan, 37% in Juneau, and 4% in Sitka. Non-Alaskan hatcheries accounted for 45% of the chinook salmon harvest in Sitka and 31% of the harvest in Ketchikan, but produced only 2% in Juneau. Coded wire tag sampling in Petersburg, Wrangell, and Craig revealed that chinook salmon from Alaska hatcheries contributed about 8%, 14% and 1% of the harvest, respectively. An estimated 82,313 coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch, 41,261 pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, 34,618 Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis, and 15,674 rockfish Sebastes species, were also harvested in the combined Ketchikan, Juneau, and Sitka marine boat fisheries. Hatcheries produced 52%, 23% and 21% of the coho salmon harvest in Ketchikan, Juneau, and Sitka, respectively. The Pacific halibut harvest of 8,200 in Juneau was 71% of the long-term average, the Ketchikan harvest of 6,778 was 65% of average, and the Sitka harvest of 19,640 was the second highest recorded and 156% of the long-term average. Shellfish effort was above average in the Juneau fishery, but below average in the Ketchikan fishery. Dungeness crab Cancer magister harvest was below average in both Juneau and Ketchikan.
Notes: "August 1999."

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