In 2009, it announced the opening of their new European headquarters in Cork, Ireland. The report with the full rationale is still being prepared before the meeting in February, according to the memo.The company was founded in 2002. Ten of Southeast Alaska’s 11 king salmon goals are big-fish only goals, according to a 2014 Fish and Game Southeast Alaska escapement goal memo.Ī committee of 35 Fish and Game staff from the various divisions of the department worked on the updates to the escapement goals, according to the Oct.
Fish and Game has had concerns over the years about the accuracy of sonars because it’s difficult to distinguish fish species and sometimes river conditions get in the way.įish managers in other areas of the state have already begun using big-fish goals for kings. The current system, the ARIS, counts salmon at river mile 14. Fish and Game replaced its older Kenai River sonar systems in 2009 with the DIDSON system, which was again replaced in 2015 because of concerns about accuracy. There has been controversy over the accuracy of the sonar counts over the years.
The sonar takes ultrasound images of fish passing through a particular section of the river in front of the sensor, and fish biologists can count the fish on the image transmitted to their computer screens. 3 memo states.įish and Game counts king salmon in the Kenai River using a sonar system supplemented by data from a test net. “In the Kenai River, fish of this size can be assessed more simply, accurately and timely,” the Oct. 3 escapement goal memo submitted to the Board of Fisheries for a worksession held in Soldotna states that the finalized recommendations will be presented at the Upper Cook Inlet meeting in Anchorage in Feburary 2017. The 33.3-inch length was selected because sockeye don’t typically reach that size, making it easier to distinguish kings from sockeye on the sonar images, said Tim McKinley, the regional research coordinator for the Division of Sport Fish in Anchorage.
Older, larger fish have been shown to be more fertile as well as more desirable for fishermen. As previously reported by the Clarion, size decline has concerned and puzzled researchers, who have linked it to more young fish returning as the population of older age classes decreases. King salmon stocks in stream systems around the state have been declining both in size and numbers in recent years, including on the Kenai River. Both goals were adopted in 2013, according to the memo. The current escapement goal for early-run king salmon is 3,800–8,500 fish of any size, and the late-run has a goal of 15,000–30,000 fish of any size.
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