Freshwater Fish Inventory of Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network
Dates
Year
2004
Citation
Markis, Joeal, Veach, Eric, McCormick, Molly, and Hander, Ray, 2004, Freshwater Fish Inventory of Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve: Copper Center, Alaska, v. NPS_AKRCAKN_NRTR_2004_006, 80 pages-80 pages.
Summary
As part of the National Park Services Inventory and Monitoring Program a freshwater fish inventory was conducted in the Central Alaska Network between 2001 and 2003. This network is comprised of Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. The purpose of this inventory was to document 90% of the expected yet undocumented species and to collect baseline data of species abundance and distribution. Angling, dip nets, electrofishing, a fyke net, gill nets, hoop traps, minnow traps, and snorkeling were all methods used in the 135 different sites that were sampled in the Central Alaska Network. Nine out of twenty one expected yet undocumented species were documented. [...]
Summary
As part of the National Park Services Inventory and Monitoring Program a freshwater fish inventory was conducted in the Central Alaska Network between 2001 and 2003. This network is comprised of Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. The purpose of this inventory was to document 90% of the expected yet undocumented species and to collect baseline data of species abundance and distribution. Angling, dip nets, electrofishing, a fyke net, gill nets, hoop traps, minnow traps, and snorkeling were all methods used in the 135 different sites that were sampled in the Central Alaska Network. Nine out of twenty one expected yet undocumented species were documented. Three previously undocumented species were documented in Denali, inconnu (Stenodus leucichthys), longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus), and northern pike (Esox lucius). Six previously undocumented species were documented in Wrangell-St. Elias, coastrange sculpin (Cottus aleuticus), eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata), slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus), lake chub (Couesius plumbeus) and threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). One additional species was documented in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). There were also four species detected that were not on the expected species lists, however, after further review these four species overlap with Park units within the Network and should be included in the expected species lists. Three of these species were detected in Denali National Park/Preserve and included, Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis), Arctic lamprey (Lampetra camtschatica), and humpback whitefish (Coregonus pidschian). One of these species was detected in Wrangell-St. Elias, starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus).
