STREAM CATALOG OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 

 REGULATORY DISTRICT NO. 9 1/ 



Edited by 



Norman Johnston 

 Alaska Department of Fish and Game 

 June a u, Ala ska 



ABSTRACT 



Information about part of Southeastern Alaska salmon 

 streams is cataloged from the voluminous records of the 

 Alaska Department of Fish and Game; the Alaska Salmon In- 

 dustry; the Fisheries Research Institute of the University of 

 Washington; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries; and other agencies. Stream descrip- 

 tions, maps, and historical records of salmon escapement data 

 are compiled for 53 salmon streams In Southeastern Alaska 

 Regulatory District No. 9. Each stream is located geographi- 

 cally by latitude and longitude and by orientation to pro- 

 minent landmasses. A standard numbering system, number 

 designations formerly in use, and common names of each 

 stream are listed. Physical descriptions are presented for 

 the intertidal zone and the upstream area of each stream. 

 Available records of weather, water temperatures, and in- 

 formation useful to ground and aerial stream surveyors are 

 presented in brief form. The species of salmon using the 

 spawning grounds and estimates of the escapements each year 

 for many years are given. 



INTRODUCTION 



The pink salmon of Southeastern Alaska are 

 an Important fishery resource. Millions of these fish 

 are captured annually by the commercial fishery 

 during their spawning migration. There are more 

 than 1, 100 known spawning streams, plus hundreds 

 of small, individually unimportant ones, scattered 

 along the 9,000 coastal miles of Southeastern 



Alaska. 



1/ Contribution No. 195, College of Fish- 

 eries, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. This 

 is the fifth catalog of salmon streams of Southeastern 

 Alaska. Previous catalogs cover areas as followsJ 

 Reg. Dist. No. 1, SSR— F 305; Reg. Dist. No. 2, 

 SSR— F453; Reg. Dists. Nos. 3 and 4, SSR— F 465; 

 and Reg. Dists. Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8, SSR— F 523. 



For many years, management and research 

 agencies of the Federal, Territorial, and State gov- 

 ernments, Alaska salmon canners, and the Fisheries 

 Research Institute of the University of Washington, 

 have independently conducted stream surveys of the 

 salmon spawning grounds. A vast amount of valuable 

 information has been accumulated and has been, in 

 the main, kept on file in the offices of the various 

 organizations. 



To make full use of all these scattered ma- 

 terials, records from the various sources have been 

 gathered together and methods of stream surveying 

 have been studied on a comparative basis. This in- 

 formation has been consolidated into a standard 

 form which is presented here as a stream catalog. 



