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Figure 1. — Alaska Peninsula and adjacent areas, showing location of Katmal National Monument. 



No general treatment of the occurrence and 

 distribution of fishes in Katmai National Monu- 

 ment has been attempted, although Cahalane 

 in an interim report of the National Park Serv- 

 ice Katmai Project mentioned a few species, 

 and Greenbank* reported on a sport fishery 

 survey of the Naknek system. Several publi- 

 cations concerned principally with aspects of 

 sockeye salmon biology and a few published 

 studies concerned with other species within 

 the Naknek system provide an important back- 

 ground for the present study. Previous infor- 

 mation concerning fishes in the monument 

 other than in the Naknek system is confined 



mostly to data from reports^ on commercial 

 fishing in Shelikof Strait. These reports are 

 concerned primarily with the species of salmon 

 that spawn in particular streams. 



Cahalane (1959) made a biological survey of 

 the plant and vertebrate animal life in the 

 monument but did not attempt to include fishes. 

 The present study attempts to fill this gap in the 

 general knowledge of fishes in the monument. 



The purposes of this paper are (1) to report 

 the known occurrence and distribution of 

 fresh-water fishes in Katmai National Monu- 

 ment and (2) to consider the zoogeographical 

 implications of these findings. 



^Cahalane, Victor H. 1954. A biological survey of 

 Katmai National Monument. In R. S. Luntey, Katmai Proj- 

 ect interim report, Katmai National Monument, Alaska, 

 pp. 75-109. U.S. Dept. Interior, Nat. Park Serv. 



Greenbank, John. 1954. Sport fish survey, Katmai 

 National Monument. Manuscript on file. Bur. Commer. 

 Fish. Biol. Lab., Auke Bay, Alaska, 30 pp. 



Information on the Shelikof Strait portion of the monu- 

 ment Is Included in the Management Reports, U.S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Kodlak 

 Island District, for 1924-59. These repons are on file at 

 the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Labora- 

 tory, Auke Bay. Reportsfor this area since 1959 are avail- 

 able from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau. 



