STREAM CATALOG OF EASTERN SECTION OF KETCHIKAN 
MANAGEMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 
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 and territorial governments, 
Alaska salmon canners, and the Fisheries Research 
Institute of the University of Washington, have inde- 
pendently 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 sources 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 117 major and numerous 
minor streams of the eastern section of the Ketchikan 
District. 
Information on each stream is presented in 
three parts, aq map, stream description, and the escape- 
ment record, Information pertinent to the identification 
of each stream by name, nuriber, 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 various agencies can be recorded and con- 
ducted according to a uniform style. 
Contribution No. 48, College of Fisheries, 
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. It is 
the first part of a general catalog of salmon streams 
of Southeastern Alaska planned by the Service. 
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 is available in reports by 
research 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, vi, 544 pgs., 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 
