2014 Draft Fisheries Monitoring Plan TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 2 Continuation Projects in 2014 ................................................................................................. 7 Technical Review Committee Membership .............................................................................. 8 Technical Review Committee, Regional Advisory Council, and Interagency Staff Committee Recommendations .................................................................................................................. 9 Summary of Regional Advisory Council Recommendations and Rationale .............................. 15 NORTHERN REGION OVERVIEW .................................................................................... 19 14-101 - Unalakleet River Chinook Salmon Assessment Continuation .................................... 25 14-102 - Climate change and subsistence fisheries: quantifying the direct effects of climatic warming on arctic fishes and lake ecosystems using whole-lake manipulations on the Alaska North Slope ........................................................................................................................... 27 14-103 - Dispersal patterns and summer ocean distribution of adult Dolly Varden in the Beaufort Sea using satellite telemetry ................................................................................... 30 14-104 - Selawik River Inconnu Spawning Population Abundance and Age Structure Evaluation ............................................................................................................................. 33 14-151 - Kotzebue Sound Whitefish Ecology and Seasonal Dynamics ..................................... 35 YUKON REGION OVERVIEW ............................................................................................ 39 14-201 - Gisasa River Salmon Weir Videography Integration.................................................. 50 14-202 - East Fork Andreafsky River Chinook and summer chum salmon abundance and run timing, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska ............................................................. 52 14-203 - Gisasa River Chinook and summer chum salmon abundance and run timing assessment, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska .......................................................... 54 14-204 - Anvik River Sonar Project ......................................................................................... 57 14-205 - Enumeration of the Spawning Migration of Yukon River Bering Cisco using DIDSON Sonar..................................................................................................................................... 59 14-206 - Yukon River Coho Salmon microsatellite baseline .................................................... 62 14-207 - Application of mixed-stock analysis for Yukon River chum salmon ........................... 63 14-208 - Koyukuk River Chum Salmon Radio Telemetry, Proportional Distribution Study ....... 65 14-209 - Abundance and Run Timing of adult salmon in Henshaw Creek ............................... 67 14-251 – Upper Yukon River Salmon Oral History .................................................................. 69 14-252 - Harvest Monitoring and Tradition Ecological Knowledge of Whitefishes in the Lower Yukon River ........................................................................................................................... 72 14-253 - Customary Trade in the Upper Yukon River.............................................................. 74 Federal Subsistence Board Meeting i 2014 Draft Fisheries Monitoring Plan KUSKOKWIM REGION OVERVIEW................................................................................. 77 14-301 - Describe Kuskokwim River Broad Whitefish Spawning Demographics above McGrath, Alaska ................................................................................................................................... 88 14-302 - Tatlawiksuk River Salmon Weir ................................................................................ 90 14-303 - George River Salmon Weir ....................................................................................... 92 14-304 - Kanektok and Goodnews River Salmon Run Assessment Projects ............................ 94 14-305 - Takotna River Salmon Weir...................................................................................... 96 14-306 - Tuluksak River Salmon Run Timing and Abundance.................................................. 98 14-307 - Enumeration and Spawning Area Characterization of Sheefish in the Upper Kuskokwim River ................................................................................................................. 101 14-308 - Kwethluk River Salmon Run Timing and Abundance............................................... 104 14-351 - Developing a baseline measure and prescribing monitoring protocol to estimate previously unreported Chinook Salmon harvested by non-local harvesters.......................... 107 in the Kuskokwim Delta ....................................................................................................... 107 14-352 - Kuskokwim Area Salmon Post Season Subsistence Harvest Surveys ....................... 109 14-353 - Kuskokwim River Salmon Inseason Subsistence Survey .......................................... 112 14-354 - Support for Cooperative Management of the Kuskokwim River Subsistence Salmon Fishery ................................................................................................................................ 115 14-355 - Natural Indicators of Chinook Salmon in the North Kuskokwim Bay and Bering Sea Coast: Run timing and abundance ....................................................................................... 118 14-356 - Local and Traditional Knowledge of Whitefish and Other Non-salmon Fishes in Lower River Villages and Tundra Villages of the Kuskokwim Drainage ............................................ 121 SOUTHWEST ALASKA OVERVIEW ............................................................................... 123 14-401 - Buskin River Sockeye Salmon Stock Assessment and Monitoring, Kodiak, Alaska ... 130 14-402 - Afognak Lake Sockeye Salmon Stock Monitoring.................................................... 132 14-451 - Description and Analysis of the Subsistence Salmon Network in Bristol Bay ........... 134 14-452 - Western Gulf of Alaska Subsistence Harvests and Social Networks ........................ 137 SOUTHCENTRAL REGION OVERVIEW ........................................................................ 141 14-501 - Abundance and Run Timing of Adult Salmon in Long Lake ..................................... 150 14-502 - Copper River Chinook and Sockeye Salmon Management Data Compendium and Review ................................................................................................................................ 152 14-503 - Abundance and Run Timing of Adult Salmon in Tanada Creek ................................ 153 14-504 - Abundance and Run Timing of Adult Salmon in Tanada Creek and Ahtell Creek ..... 155 14-505 - Estimate the Inriver Abundance of Copper River Chinook Salmon .......................... 157 14-506 - Long-term trends in distribution and stock-specific run timing of Copper River Chinook salmon, using streambed RFID detection systems .................................................. 160 14-507 - Develop and Test a Portable Graduated Field Fish Barrier ...................................... 163 ii Federal Subsistence Board Meeting 2014 Draft Fisheries Monitoring Plan as a Tool to Monitor Salmon Escapements .......................................................................... 163 14-508 - Predicting the effects of climate change on Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis): An integrative approach ........................................................................................................... 165 14-551 - Kenai Peninsula Subsistence Use Areas for Salmon and Nonsalmon Fish Species: Current and lifetime use areas of residents of Cooper Landing, Hope, and Ninilchik ............ 167 14-552 - Harvest and Use of Subsistence Fishery Resources and Related Ecological Knowledge among Residents of Hope, Ninilchik, and Cooper Landing in Southcentral Alaska ................ 169 SOUTHEAST REGION OVERVIEW ................................................................................. 171 14-601 - Redoubt Lake Sockeye Salmon Stock Assessment .................................................. 181 14-602 - Falls Lake Subsistence Sockeye Salmon Stock and Harvest Assessment .................. 183 14-603 - Hetta Lake Subsistence Sockeye Salmon Stock Assessment Project ........................ 185 14-604 - Eek Lake Subsistence Sockeye Salmon Stock Assessment Project ........................... 187 14-605 - Hatchery Creek Sockeye Salmon Population Assessment ....................................... 189 14-606 - Klawock Lake Sockeye Salmon Population Assessment .......................................... 191 14-607 - District 1 Eulachon Population Assessment ............................................................ 193 14-608 - Kanalku Lake Subsistence Sockeye Salmon Stock Assessment Project .................... 195 14-609