Escapement and stock status for coho salmon on the Little Susitna River and selected Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Alaska streams during 1994
By: by Larry D. Bartlett.
Contributors: Alaska. Division of Sport Fish. Statewide Research and Technical Services Unit.
Series: Fishery data series -- no. 96-16.
Publisher: Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish, Research and Technical Services
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Anchorage
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Coho salmon -- Alaska -- Little Susitna River -- Statistics.; Salmon fisheries -- Alaska -- Little Susitna River -- Statistics.; Fishing -- Alaska -- Little Susitna River -- Statistics.; Fish stocking -- Alaska -- Little Susitna River -- Statistics.
Description: Coho solmon returning to the Little Susitna River were censused through a weir at river mile 32.5 on the Little Susitna River. A total of 28,948 coho salmon were censused through the weir in 1994. The contribution of hatchery coho salmon to the census was estimated at 4,162 fish (14.4%, SE = 1.1 %). Inspections of boat angler creels at the Burma Landing (river mile 28) produced an estimated hatchery contribution of 26.8% (SE = 2.6%) to the boat angler harvest. A sample of 413 coho salmon taken at the counting weir was found to be predominantly (59.6%, SE = 3.3%) age 2.1. Index coho salmon escapement counts conducted on selected local streams yielded average or better than average counts on most streams. A survey of 2,466 boat anglers exiting the coho salmon sport fishery at Burma Landing found that 8.5% (SE = .7%) of the surveyed boat anglers were Alaska residents with 99% (SE = 0.2%) of these residents being of local origin. Nine percent (SE = .6%) of the 2,466 boat anglers surveyed used guided services.
Notes: "July 1996".

"Literature cited": p. 27-28.

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