Chena River Chinook Salmon Study

Here’s a sample of the data being used to guide the selection of study reaches. These ArcGIS maps show the distribution of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Chena River in the spring (mid-June) and early fall (late August) of 2007. Each dot on the map represents fish counts in a 50-meter stretch of [...]

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Underwater video is going to play a huge role in Megan’s and my projects. Last fall we went out and tested the first and simplest of several video cameras we’ll be using, an Aqua-Vu DVR made for ice fishing, which I’ll be setting up with auxiliary batteries to do lengthy surveillance of juvenile Chinook [...]

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Back on August 2nd, Sam Decker did a helicopter flyover on the Chena to count and map adult Chinook salmon redds. I rode along to take photos of the spawning sites (and other interesting features) from the air. Because I synced the camera’s clock with the clock on my GPS, a little post-processing [...]

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