Data Sets, Monitoring: Auke Creek
Jerry Taylor
Auke Bay Laboratories
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute
17109 Pt Lena Loop Rd
Juneau AK 99801
(907) 789-6040
Jerry.Taylor@noaa.gov
The Auke Lake system has natural populations of pink, chum, sockeye
and coho salmon, and supports populations of Dolly Varden, and
cutthroat and steelhead trout. Chinook salmon have returned to Auke Creek since 1986 as a result of off-site releases of juveniles from
other hatcheries. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS),
and its predecessor agency, the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, began
salmon research at Auke Creek in 1961. Several fish counting weirs
were installed in Auke Creek to capture salmon adults during the early
1960s. In 1965, a permanent, low-height weir was constructed and
was used until 1980, when a modern, two-way weir was built (see photo above). Weir counts of sockeye salmon adults at Auke Creek began in 1963; other
species were included after 1966. Sockeye smolts were counted in some
years between 1963 and 1980, and other downstream migrants were counted
after 1969. A main emphasis at Auke Creek has been on the
monitoring of the wild salmonid populations. Auke Creek has been the
site of many projects on enhanced fish since construction of the
hatchery in 1971.
An annual report of fish counts from weir operations, and other
information related to salmonid research involving the facilities at the
weir is prepared each year:
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