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Number of Fish Harvested (Thousands) 50 EASTSIDE SUSITNA UNIT Chulitna River Susitna River Talkeetna River WESTSIDE Deshka River SUSITNA UNIT TALKEETNA Yentna River KNIK ARM UNIT Skwentna River Willow Creek Matanuska River PALMER Little Knik River Susitna WEST COOK River INLET UNIT ANCHORAGE Beluga River Northern ALASKA Cook Inlet NORTH MAP 0 50 AREA MILES Figure 1.-Map of the Northern Cook Inlet sport fish management area. 2 450 Knik Arm Eastside Susitna Westside Susitna West Cook Inlet 400 350 300 250 200 150 11 100 50 Number of Angler-Days (Thousands) 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Figure 2.-Angler-days of sport fishing effort expended by recreational anglers fishing Northern Cook Inlet Management Area waters, 1977-1999. 40 Mean 1999 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 13 Number of Angler-Days (Thousands) Marine Big Lake Knik River Finger Lake Other Lakes Wasilla Creek Other Streams Eklutna Tailrace Little Susitna River Cottonwood Creek Kepler Lk ComplexNancy Lk Complex Big Lake drainage streams Figure 3.-Mean number of angler-days per year of sport fishing effort expended at sites in the Knik Arm management unit, 1977-1998, and effort expended in 1999. 40 Mean 1999 35 30 25 20 15 16 10 5 Number of Angler-Days (Thousands) Lakes Little Willow Birch Creek Willow Creek Sheep CreekGoose Creek Caswell Creek Other Streams Kashwitna River Montana Creek Sunshine CreekTalkeetna River Figure 4.-Mean number of angler-days per year of sport fishing effort expended at sites in the Eastside Susitna River management unit, 1977-1998, and effort expended in 1999. 25 Mean 1999 20 15 10 5 18 Number of Angler-Days (Thousands) Fish Creek Lake Creek Other Lakes Deshka River Moose CreekYentna RiverPeters Creek Other Streams Alexander Creek Rabideux Creek Talachulitna River Figure 5.-Mean number of angler-days per year of sport fishing effort expended at sites in the Westside Susitna River management unit, 1977-1998, and effort expended in 1999. 4 Mean 1999 3 3 2 2 1 1 20 Number of Angler-Days (Thousands) Other Lewis River Polly Creek Chuitna RiverBeluga River Theodore River Kustatan River Big River Lakes South of N. Foreland Susitna R-N. Foreland Polly C, Crescent R. Beach Figure 6.-Mean number of angler-days per year of sport fishing effort expended at sites in the West Cook Inlet drainage, 1977-1998, and effort expended in 1999. Knik Arm Eastside Susitna Westside Susitna West Cook Inlet 350 300 250 200 23 150 100 Number of Fish Harvested (Thousands) 50 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 Figure 7.-Northern Cook Inlet Management Area recreational harvest, 1977-1999. Mean 1999 70 60 50 40 30 24 20 10 Number of Fish Harvested (Thousands) Burbot Smelt Other Lake Trout White-fish Pink Salmon Dolly Varden Coho Salmon Chum Salmon Rainbow Trout Arctic Grayling Northern Pike Chinook SalmonSockeye Salmon Land-locked Salmon Figure 8.-Northern Cook Inlet Management Area mean recreational harvest by species, 1977-1998, and 1999 recreational harvest. 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 90 80 70 60 50 32 40 30 20 10 Percent of Catch that is Released 0 Knik Arm East Susitna West West Cook Combined Susitna Inlet Figure 9.-Percent of the recreational catch of all species from the Northern Cook Inlet Management Area that was released, 1994-1999, by management unit. 99% 99.7% 0.3% 1% Sockeye Chum 90% 97% 3% 98% 34 2% 10% Pink Coho 46% All Salmon NCIMA Sport UCI Commercial 54% Chinook Figure 10.-Composition of the Northern Cook Inlet salmon harvest, 1977-1999. 160,000 140,000 Sport Fishery Opened 1979 120,000 Commercial Fishery 100,000 Reopened 1986 80,000 47 60,000 Number Harvested Recommended Harvest Range 40,000 All Fisheries Closed or Restricted 20,000 0 1893 1903 1913 1923 1933 1943 1953 1963 1973 1983 1993 Figure 11.-Estimated harvests by all user groups of chinook salmon of Northern Cook Inlet origin, 1893-1999. 4,000 3,000 2,000 57 Number of Fish Harvested 1,000 0 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 Figure 13.-Little Susitna River chinook salmon harvest, 1979-1999. Figure 14.-Map of the Eklutna hatchery and Eklutna powerplant tailrace. 59 64 Figure 16.-Map of the Talkeetna River area. Figure 17.-Map of Northern Cook Inlet area. 76 95 Figure 19.-Map of the Knik Arm drainage. 114 Number of Fish (Thousands) Figure 20. 100 150 200 250 50 - Fish Creeksockeyesalmon escapement,1968 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 - 1982 2000. 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 40 137 35 30 25 NCIMA Harvest 20 15 10 Number Harvested (Thousands) Statewide 5 Figure 21. 1977 -Estimated northern pike harvest from Northern Cook Inlet Management Area and statewide, 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 -1999. APPENDIX A 149 Other Species 49.0% Anadromous Salmon 51.0% Chinook 22.0% Coho 47.5% Chum 5.9% Pink 13.2% Sockeye 11.4% Appendix A1.-Northern Cook Inlet Management Area sport fish harvest anadromous salmon composition, 1977-1999. 150 Harvest 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 Number of Fish Harvested 10,000 0 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 Catch 160,000 140,000 120,000 100,000 80,000 60,000 Number of Fish Caught 40,000 20,000 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Knik Arm Drainage East Susitna Drainage West Susitna Drainage West Cook Inlet Drainage Appendix A2.-Northern Cook Inlet Management Area recreational chinook salmon harvest and catch, 1977-1999. 151 Appendix A3.-Knik Arm drainage chinook salmon harvest by fishery, 1977-1999. Fish Ck. Other Little Knik Eklutna Wasilla Cottonwood Big a b c d Year Marine Marine Susitna River Tailrace Creek Creek Lake Other Total 1977 191 0 16 207 1978 93 47 0 140 1979 800 0 0 0 800 1980 646 0 0 0 646 1981 1,418 0 0 0 48 1,466 1982 1,467 0 0 0 199 1,666 1983 16 47 1,187 5 0 0 0 1,255 1984 125 24 1,883 0 0 0 0 25 2,057 1985 1,845 0 0 0 0 44 0 1,889 1986 50 1,457 0 0 0 0 0 17 1,524 1987 117 58 2,282 0 0 0 0 19 0 2,476 1988 0 0 2,822 0 0 66 0 0 28 2,916 1989 77 44 4,204 0 0 16 0 0 0 4,341 1990 28 23 1,965 0 0 6 0 0 0 2,022 1991 129 23 2,102 0 0 17 0 6 0 2,277 1992 16 8 3,920 0 0 9 0 0 16 3,969 1993 104 48 3,441 0 0 9 0 0 0 3,602 1994 0 20 4,204 0 0 0 0 0 79 4,303 1995 9 1,698 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,707 1996 42 1,484 0 0 0 0 0 53 1,579 1997 0 2,938 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,938 1998 0 0 2,031 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,031 1994-1998 Mean 0 14 2,471 0 0 0 0 0 26 2,512 1999 11 2,713 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,724 a Beginning in 1995 includes all marine. b Knik River and tributaries including Jim Creek. c Big Lake drainage streams. d Includes lakes and streams. 152 Appendix A4.-Knik Arm drainage chinook salmon catch by fishery, 1990-1999. Fish Ck. Other Little Knik Eklutna Wasilla Cottonwood Big a b c d Year Marine Marine Susitna River Tailrace Creek Creek Lake Other Total 1990 40 29 3,069 0 0 12 0 0 90 3,240 1991 129 102 3,012 0 0 17 0 45 6 3,311 1992 16 17 6,484 0 0 48 0 9 16 6,590 1993 218 58 6,223 0 0 189 0 0 9 6,526 1994 0 20 5,993 0 0 0 0 0 129 6,142 1995 66 2,705 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,771 1996 42 3,639 0 0 0 0 0 64 3,745 1997 0 6,668 0 0 0 0 0 66 6,668 1998 0 0 3,785 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,785 1994-1998 Mean 0 26 4,558 0 0 0 0 0 52 4,622 1999 0 11 4,995 0 0 0 0 0 84 5,090 a Beginning in 1995 includes all marine. b Knik River and tributaries including Jim Creek. c Big Lake drainage streams. d Includes lakes and streams. 153 Appendix A5.-Eastside Susitna River drainage chinook salmon harvest by fishery, 1977- 1999. Willow Lt. Willow Kashwitna Caswell Sheep Goose Montana Birch Sunshine Talkeetna a b Year Creek Creek River Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek River Other Total 1977 137 16 259 415 25 204 1,056 1978 47 0 256 408 12 163 886 1979 459 0 156 10 312 10 312 39 1,298 1980 289 32 215 45 559 13 172 45 1,370 1981 585 0 249 0 661 57 373 277 2,202 1982 629 0 471 0 241 52 450 220 2,063 1983 534 0 231 272 0 504 105 934 272 2,852 1984 774 37 0 586 0 0 1,522 125 1,272 112 4,428 1985 1,063 25 527 0 979 771 871 106 4,342 1986 1,017 872 73 327 1,778 145 2,796 290 327 908 36 8,569 1987 1,987 711 116 88 1,610 334 1,726 44 319 1,639 29 8,603 1988 2,349 937 0 578 1,847 218 1,070 28 303 1,762 47 9,139 1989 2,846 507 11 357 1,116 385 1,708 28 368 2,372 85 9,783 1990 3,237 387 6 330 1,537 504 478 465 2,358 121 9,423 1991 3,208 684 41 305 1,519 288 575 47 230 2,025 161 9,083 1992 8,884 1,023 16 592 2,663 1,033 3,078 101 365 3,338 214 21,307 1993 8,626 1,200 38 531 2,300 633 4,054 9 280 4,729 288 22,688 1994 5,980 745 78 562 1,349 361 3,111 108 297 2,144 235 14,970 1995 2,742 436 18 397 746 226 1,004 0 132 2,126 45 7,872 1996 2,690 896 21 128 1,397 437 1,612 22 53 3,585 182 11,023 1997 3,135 699 10 30 550 298 2,181 30 53 3,800 203 10,989 1998 2,793 546 15 226 700 348 1,471 83 116 3,846 328 10,472 1994-1998 Mean 3,468 664 28 269 948 334 1,876 49 130 3,100 199 11,065 1999 4,988 1,344 83 142 2,558 371 3,279 134 11 3,701 264 16,875 a Talkeetna River and tributaries including Clear Creek.
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