Yukon River Inseason Salmon Harvest Interviews, 2007. Alaska Fisheries Data Series Number 2008-17

摘要

Subsistence salmon harvest information collected during the fishing season is an important management tool for Yukon River fishery managers. Information gauging progress towards subsistence salmon harvest goals, fishing conditions, and quality of subsistence catch was collected in 2007. Interviews were conducted between May 27 and July 29, 2007 in the Yukon River villages of Emmonak, Marshall, Holy Cross, Kaltag, Huslia, Galena, Beaver, and Eagle, a subsample of households were contacted each week to evaluate their progress towards meeting subsistence harvest goals. A total of 128 households were interviewed and 429 interviews were conducted during the Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha and summer chum salmon O. keta fishing season. Information from these interviews was reported during 14 weekly public Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association teleconferences, distributed in eight weekly written summaries, and used in three federal inseason memorandums of concurrence management reports. Compared with information from previous seasons, subsistence harvest goal progression was average to below average in all villages with the exception of Holy Cross which reported an above average subsistence fishing season.