STREAM CATALOG OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 

 REGULATORY DISTRICTS NOS. 3 AND 4 ^1 



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. 



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 spa\vning 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. 



This catalog has been compiled under a 

 contract given to the Fisheries Research Institute 

 by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 The material contained herein includes 80 major 

 and numerous minor streams of Regulatory Dis- 

 tricts Nos. 3 and 4. 



Information on each stream is presented by 

 a stream description and, when available, a map 

 and escapement record. Information pertinent to 

 the identification of each stream by name, number, 

 and location is given, and further physical features 

 are described where necessary for positive identifi- 

 cation. Descriptions of each stream are given as 

 completely as available information allows. The cat- 

 alog format is so designed that future surveys by vari- 

 ous agencies can be recorded and conducted accord- 

 ing to a uniform style. 



\l Contribution No. 153, College of Fisher- 

 ies, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash- It is 

 the third catalog of salmon streams of Southeastern 

 Alaska. The first catalog covered the Eastern Sec- 

 tion of Ketchikan Management District, Special 

 Scientific Report — Fisheries No. 305 (Reg. Dist. 

 No. 1), and the second catalog covered the West- 

 ern Section, (Reg. Dist. No. 2), Special Scienti- 

 fic Report--Fisheries No. 453. 



As a handbook of salmon streams, this catalog 

 is expected to serve as an aid to conservation agencies 

 as well as others who have an interest in the valuable 

 salmon resource of Southeastern Alaska. 



SOURCES OF DATA 



The information compiled in this catalog is 

 derived from a number of sources, both in and outside 

 of the field of fishery work. A complete list of these 

 sources is given below. 



Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Valuable stream 

 and escapement information as available in reports by 

 research and management personnel- 



Alaska Salmon Industry. Surveys (made by individual 

 members of the industry) are among some of the ear- 

 liest records available. 



Fisheries Research Institute. Records are available for 

 each year starting with 1947. Many of the Institute 

 research projects have been concerned with precise 

 measurements of physical factors. Data from these 

 projects provide some of the stream descriptions and 

 escapement estimates included in this catalog. In 1950 

 and 1951 the Institute assembled a stream catalog for 

 Southeastern Alaska with all the information then a- 

 vailable. It has served as a guide for the present cata- 

 log. 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Charts used through- 

 out the catalog for standardization of stream location 

 coordinates are from this source. A number of large- 

 scale charts have provided intertidal zone information. 



The U. S. Coast Pilot (1952. Southeast Alaska, Dixon 

 Entrance to Yakutat Bay, x, 544 p. , plus charts) 

 is the source of information on vessel approaches to 

 stream mouths and the authority for spelling of proper 



names. 



U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. District catalogs 

 of this agency are a major source of stream physical 

 data and salmon escapement records. Escapement 

 records from the streams where weirs were operated 

 are actual counts. The F. W. S. stream numbering 

 system is the basis for the numbering system used in 

 this catalog. Information on some of the large 

 mainland streams with headwaters in Canada was 

 obtained from the Canadian government by the U. S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service. 



U. S. Federal Power Commission. The report, Water 

 Power of Southeastern Alaska, 1947, published with 



