Meta Identifier	Yurok_LK
Type of Data	Fisheries Investigations of the Lower Klamath River
Originator	Yurok Tribe Fisheries Dept
Description	Various fisheries data collection in Lower Klamath tributary watersheds by the Yurok Tribe Fisheries Department. Downstream migrant trapping of juveniles, electrofishing samples, dive surveys of both juvenile and adult salmonids.
Area	LK
Metadata Date	2/2/2004
Metadata Contact	Patrick Higgins
Contact Person Primary	Dan Gale
Access Constraints	Data available McGarvey (1997-2002) downstream migrant traps, Turwar juvenile dive samples (2001-2003) and adult Chinook dive surveys of Blue Creek.
Lead Person	Dan Gale
Lead Organization	Yurok Tribe Fisheries Dept
Notes	Numerous reports published
Data Set Name	fish_ch_blue_1994_02.dbf, fish_ds_mcgarvey_97_2002.dbf
Maint. and Update Freq.	NA
Serial Name	NA
Purpose	The purpose of these investigations was to provide information on the production of juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Lower Klamath Basin, which is the Yurok Ancestral Territory. Monitoring efforts will continue.
Data Quality Information	Data quality are high, except that methods may change in counting or different years may have highly variable counting effort. Early year of adult counts on Blue Creek not included because of lesser effort than from 1994-2002.
Use Constraints	High flows may hamper adult counts; consequently, data cannot be used for a total population estimation.
Supplemental Information	Gale, D. B., T. R. Hayden, L. S. Harris, and H. N. Voight. 1998. Assessment of anadromous fish stocks in Blue Creek, Lower Klamath River, California, 1994-1996. Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program, Habitat Assessment and Biological Monitoring Division. Technical Report No. 4. Klamath, CA. 101 pp. Also Voight, H. N. 1999. Assessment of juvenile salmonid populations in two index reaches of McGarvey Creek, a tributary to the lower Klamath River, CA. First year of investigations-1998. Technical Report No. 7. Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program, Habitat Assessment and Biological Monitoring Division. Klamath, CA. 12 pp. Also Voight, H. N. and D. B. Gale. 1998. Distribution of fish species in tributaries of the lower Klamath river: An interim report, FY 1996. Technical Report No. 3. Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program, Habitat Assessment and Biological Monitoring Division. Klamath, CA. 80 pp.
Scale	NA
Lat/Long	NA
Quads	NA
Keywords	green sturgeon catch
On Line Linkage (URL)	None
Publisher	Yurok Tribe Fisheries Department
Publication Place	Klamath, CA
Issue Identification	salmonid dist/abun
Title	Lower Klamath Fishery Investigations
Abstract	Various reports (see Supplemental Information)
Other Citation Details	Monitoring conducted by Yurok Tribe Fisheries Department staff.
Storage Location	Yurok Tribe Fisheries Department, Klamath, CA
Contact Organization	Yurok Tribe Fisheries Dept.
Contact Address	15900 Hwy 101
Contact City	Klamath
Contact State	CA.
Contact Zip Code	95548
Contact Voice Telephone	707-482-2841
Contact Email	dgale@northcoast.com
Progress	Annual

 
 
 

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