Fish Inventory Site FSNPR1601A01

Coordinates (dec. deg.): 69.33041°, -151.41803°
Legal Description: U001S003E28
Region: Arctic

Datum: WGS84
Quad Name / ITM: Umiat B-3
AWC Stream #: 330-00-10700-2265
Stream Name: Chandler River

Elevation:

Site Comments: WP001. Attempted to land at target site C23, but stream was extremely low water and not floatable. Followed it downstream to its confluence with the Chandler and conducted survey there.

Survey Date: Jul 27, 2016

Survey FSNPR16-01A01

Observers: Joe Giefer, Phillip Stacey

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: 12.68° C DO: 11.44 ppm Conductivity: 202.0 μS/cm Stream Stage:
Water Color: Clear Turbidity: 2.42 NTU / pH: 7.65 Stream Gradient: 1.0%
Qualitative Velocity: 48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff: None/Trace
Substrates: Cobble, Gravel
Channel Dimensions:
  (OHW) (Wetted)
Stream Width: 61.2 m
Thalweg Depth: 2.0 m
Rosgen Channel Classification:
Visit Comments: Hanna Probe: pH= 8.1, Cond= 270.

Vegetation Classification

Left Bank Right Bank
Distance
From
OHW(m)
0-5
5-10
10-20
20-30

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (A)
EF Time(s): 799 Efficiency: Fair
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP002-003
Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (B)
EF Time(s): 614 Efficiency: Fair
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP004-005
Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (C)
EF Time(s): 982 Efficiency: Poor
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP006-007
Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (D)
EF Time(s): 693 Efficiency: Fair
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP008-009
Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (E)
EF Time(s): 835 Efficiency: Fair
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP010-011
Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (F)
EF Time(s): 662 Efficiency: Fair
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP012-013
Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (G)
EF Time(s): 788 Efficiency: Fair
Channel Type: Main Channel (>50% of water flow)
Comments: WP014-015
Gear Type: Visual Observation, Boat (AA)
Channel Type:
Comments: WP002-003
Gear Type: Visual Observation, Boat (CC)
Channel Type:
Comments: WP006-007
Gear Type: Visual Observation, Boat (FF)
Channel Type:
Comments: WP012-013

Fish Observations

Species: juvenile/adult burbot Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 1 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 140 Max: 140 Mean: 140
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1)
 
Species: juvenile/adult Arctic grayling Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 11 Fish Measured: 3 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 240 Max: 278 Mean: 262
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Visual Observation, Boat (2) Visual Observation, Boat (6)
 
Species: juvenile/adult slimy sculpin Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 2 Fish Measured: 2 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 90 Max: 100 Mean: 95
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1)
 
Species: adult broad whitefish Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 3 Fish Measured: 3 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 511 Max: 541 Mean: 521
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1)
 
Species: juvenile/adult longnose sucker Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 1 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 316 Max: 316 Mean: 316
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1)
 
Species: adult chum salmon Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 21 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 550 Max: 550 Mean: 550
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Boat-Mounted Electrofisher (1) Visual Observation, Boat (20)
 

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