9328

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9328
• Author: Miller, W. H.
• Title: Analysis of Salmon and Steelhead Supplementation.
• USFW Year: 1990.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

eggs and released 819 million fry and smolts (Holland 1989). Most releases were pink
and chum salmon fry, approximately 626 million pink fry and 186 million chum fry. In
1988, there were 22 PNP hatcheries in Alaska. The Regional Aquaculture Associations
are supported by a tax on the commercial salmon harvest (landing fee). They also
market excess fish returning to the PNP hatcheries.
Alaska's FRED Division focuses on .the development of new enhancement technology,
hatchery production, technical services, permitting, and. habitat restoration and
rehabilitation. The PNP hatchery program is administered by FRED under a permitting
system.
The FRED system operates 16 hatcheries and several ancillary hatchery facilities. In
1988, FRED hatcheries released 412.6 million fry and smolts of which 407 million were
salmon anal steelhead (Holland 1989). Of the total release (1989) 320 million were pink
and chum salmon (Table 5).
Most of PNP hatcheries produce pink and chum salmon with some sockeye, coho, and
Chinook. Plans are moving forward to produce more sockeye smolts at some PNP and
FRED operated facilities.
Table S. Releases of fry and smolts, salmon and steelhead, from Public Non-profit
(PNP) and Alaska Department of Fish and Game, FRED Division hatcheries,
1988. (Holland 1989).
PNP Hatcheries -FRED Division Hatcheries
Species Number x1000 Species N m er x1000
Chum 186,050 Chum 206,531
Pink 625,820 Pink 213,580
Sockeye 1,000 Sockeye 68,142
Coho 4,720 Coho 14,441
Chinook 2,210 Chinook 4,115
steelhead 271
TOTAL 819,800 TOTAL 407,080
Biologists are attempting to rebuild or supplement some wild/natural runs of salmon and
steelhead. However, most of the hatchery effort is to increase runs for harvest
augmentation. Fish are released directly from the hatchery or introduced to areas where
the adults can be harvested while wild stocks are managed for escapement. Efforts are
underway to introduce salmon to unutilized production areas where barriers or other
factors have restricted access to fish.- New programs will examine means to bring fish
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