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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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides 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.