Excerpt from Distribution, Abundance, and Growth of Juvenile Sockeye Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, and Associated Species in the Naknek River System, 1961-64

In the summers of 1961 to 1963, juvenile sockeye salmon in the pelagic areas had a characteristic pattern of abundance. For the entire system: abundance (catch per tow) of age 0 increased from early summer to midsummer and then declined to late August. The abundance in late August varied about threefold and, in general, was independent of variations in the number of parents from 1960 to 1963.

In July the abundance of age 0 fish in each basin was proportional to the amount of known contiguous spawning ground, but by late August this relation no longer existed. This change was at least partly due to migration of the age 0 fish - generally from basins of greater abundance of fish to those of lesser abun dance. The larger and faster growing fish were the first to migrate. Not all basins were involved in these migrations.

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