Development and Implementation of an Escapement Goal Policy for the Return of Chinook Salmon to the Kenai River

Development and Implementation of an Escapement Goal Policy for the Return of Chinook Salmon to the Kenai River

Author: Douglas N. McBride

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Published: 1989

Total Pages: 65

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Provides strategies (escapement goals) to prevent over exploitation of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Methodology consisted of compiling statistics on salmon returns, and river abundance, to arrive at a specific policy, or escapement goal, which can be implemented in the Kenai River (Southcentral Alaska) fisheries.