STREAM CATALOG OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 

 REGULATORY DISTRICT NO. 2 -' 



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, indi- 

 vidually 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 govern- 

 ments, Alaska Salmon canners, and the Fisheries Re- 

 search Institute of the University of Washington, have 

 independently conducted stream surveys of the salmon 

 spawning grounds. A vast amount of valuable informa- 

 tion 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 materials, 

 records from the various souces have been gathered 

 together and methods of stream surveying have been 

 studied on a comparative basis. This information has 

 been consolidated into a standard form which is pre- 

 sented here as a stream catalog. 



This catalog has been compiled under a con- 

 tract given to the Fisheries Research Institute by the 

 United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The material 

 contained herein includes 88 major and numerous 

 minor streams of Regulatory District No. 2. 



Information on each stream is presented in 

 three parts: a map, stream description, and the escape- 

 ment record. Information pertinent to the identification 

 of each stream by name, number, and location is given, 

 and further physical features are described where nec- 

 essary for positive identification. Descriptions of each 

 stream are given as completely as available information 

 allows. The catalog format is so designed that future 

 surveys by varioizs agencies can be recorded and con- 

 ducted according to a uniform style. 



1/ Contribution No. 149, College of Fisheries, 

 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. It is 

 the second catalog of salmon streams of Southeastern 

 Alaska. The first catalog covered the Eastern Section 

 of Ketchikan Management District, Special Scientific 

 Report — Fisheries No. 305. (Regulatory District No. 1). 



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 fisheries work. A complete list of these 

 sources is given below. 



Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Valuable stream 

 and escapement information are available in reports by 

 research and management personnel. 



Alaska Salmon Industry. Surveys (made by individual 

 members of the industry) are among some of the earliest 

 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 avail- 

 able. It has served as a guide for the present catalog. 



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 and 

 Supplements dated February 9, 1957, and January 7, 

 1961, Ninth Supplement) is the source of information 

 on vessel approaches to stream mouths and the authority 

 for spelling of proper names. 



U. S. fish and W i ldlife Service . District catalogs 

 of this agency are a major source ol 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, being the first system used, is incorporated 

 in this catalog. Information on some of the large 



