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back to areas just for a specific type of harvest -sport,- commercial or subsistence. Fry, fingerling, and smolts are released directly into ocean bays, small streams, lakes or rivers to key adults back to a terminal fishery. Alaska's hatchery program is rated quite successful because it is providing more stability in the commercial fisheries program. In 1987, roughly 25 percent of the total statewide salmon harvest was from salmon produced by public programs (FRED & PNP). In 1988, this figure was 24 percent (Hartman et al. 1988). To separate wild from hatchery stocks- in amixed stock fishery, many hatchery fish are marked with coded-wire tags (CWT). In some fisheries, hatchery fish are separated by timing into a fishery area and by location of return. Overall, fisheries management in Alaska is directed primarily for wild fish escapement with hatchery releases directed for harvest augmentation.l We reviewed 24 projects in Alaska; 2 were considered true supplementation, both were evaluated. Steelhead Very little steelhead supplementation has occurred in Alaska. No specific evaluation information was found. Chinook Hatchery chinook salmon programs have nat been as successful as some of the other hatchery programs in Alaska. When comparing adult returns with the Columbia River system, Alaska does as well or better. Chinook salmon adult returns in the 2-4 percent range from smolt plants have been common (Dudiak and. Boyle 1988). Alaska biologists expect to get 3 percent or better adult returns for smolt releases of chinook, coho, and sockeye salmon. Programs to build fisheries in selected areas for chinook salmon harvest has worked quite well in Alaska. Chinook salmon smolt releases in Prince William Sound return in the 4-5 percent range? Alaskan biologists use indigenous broodstock almost exclusively for supplementation. Fry, fingerling and smolts have been outplanted to natural areas. In the Kasilof River, biologists have stocked chinook salmon smolts into areas with wild stock and noted no impacts on wild stocks. They did note that survival of hatchery fish was about one-half of what they thought it should be (Kyle and Litchfield 1989). 1Keith Pratt, FRED Divisions, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Anchorage, Alaska, pers. comm., February, 1990. 2Bruce Suzumota, Prince William Sound Aquaculture Association, pers. comm., February, 1990. 23