Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
Two Alaska sport fish species, burbot and northern pike, were used to test the ability to estimate carrying capacity of fishes based on biotic and abiotic indices of lake productivity. Understanding the quantitative relationships between the potential fish productivity of freshwater lakes and physical, biological, or chemical characteristics could provide models sufficient for calculating a timely prediction of carrying capacity to evaluate the population status. This would provide a technique for allocating limited resources for fishery stock assessment as an aide in resource management of sport fisheries. The lakes covered in the study lie in an area spanning West 151°--142°/North 64°30ʹ--61°52ʹ. They are Fielding Lake, George Lake, Glacier Lake, Harding Lake, Hudson Lake, Jatahmund Lake, Lake Louise, Landlocked Tangle Lake, Moose Lake, Paxson Lake, Sevenmile Lake, T Lake, Tolsona Lake, Volkmar Lake, and West Twin Lake.
Publication Date
12-17-1998
Recommended Citation
Simpson, Thomas David, "Lake productivity indices as estimators of carrying capacity for burbot and northern pike in Interior Alaska" (1998). Fisheries . 416.
https://ualaska.researchcommons.org/uaf_fisheries_facpubs/416
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/15750