ABSTRACT 



Information about the red salmon runs and the spawning streams 

 and beaches in the Kvichak River system, Bristol Bay, Alaska, is cataloged 

 in this volume. The material is compiled from data obtained from spawning 

 groxond surveys made in the area since 1955 tiy the Fisheries Research 

 Institute of the University of Washington. Ear2j.er work was financed by 

 the salmon canners of Bristol Bay. In recent years the work was supported 

 by the Btireau of Commercial Fisheries. 



For each spawning stream or beach, the catalog gives, whenever 

 available, the stream catalog number, name, location, and physical description, 

 including dimensions, bottom qviality, flow, barriers, etc. Then a description 

 of red salmon runs to the area is listed, including magnitude of the run and 

 timing and distribution of spawning. Estimates of numbers of red salmon to 

 each stream or beach are listed chronologically imder a separate entry 

 entitled "Sijmmary of Surveys." 



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