Kitoi Bay Research Station Providing
Knowledge For Restoring Salmon Runs
The Kitoi Research Station is a
development important to the sal
mon fishery of the entire state of
Alaska and particularly to Kodiak.
Yet while some local residents are
aware of the work and its impor
tance to the fishery, many have but
a fleeting knowledge of what is
being done there and most have
only heard fleeting references to
the project.
Those who visited the local bio
logical research offices of the
Alaska Department of Fish and
Game during the recent King Crab
Festival had an opportunity to find
out many of the details of the Kitoi
project, not only from the many
revealing and interesting photo
graphic displays there, but from
reading Informational Leaflet No.
9 prepared by Howard D. Tait. It
is from that report that we ob
tained the following information.
“The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game is proud of the Kitoi
Bay Station on Afognak Island and
the research being accomplished
there,” said Tait.
“The station was originally estab
lished primarily to study all phases
of the freshwater life history of red
salmon and particularly in ref
erence to determining the feasibil
ity of utilizing lake systems that
are presently not producing sal
mon. There are many lakes in
Alaska that are potentially red sal
mon producers except that they
have barriers such as waterfalls
and other obstructions that pre
vent salmon from ascending to the
spawning grounds. The cost of
building fishways and otherwise
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opening these lakes to red salmon
and stocking them is -very great.
Therefore, we must learn practical
means of stocking the lakes with
fry or adults and the rate in which
they should be stocked.
“The Kitoi Bay site on Afognak
Island was selected after an exten
sive research of Alaska’s coastline.
Several factors were taken into
consideration. It was essential to
find an area containing several
lakes not now producing red sal
mon because of barriers but capa
ble of rearing salmon. The area
also had to have a lake which had
a natural run of red salmon so the
experiment could have reliable
controls. Such a situation was
found to exist at Kitoi Bay and in
1953 a field camp was established
there. The station has grown from
a tent on the beach to a well
equipped laboratory.
“An experimental hatchery was
constructed to rear red salmon to
the fry stage and to incubate addi
tional eggs to the eyed stage. The
production of fry is devoted almost
entirely to experimental plantings
of the various lakes near the sta
tion. The objective is to learn the
optimum of fry for a particular
lake system. Incidental to this pro
gram it has been possible to pro
duce some coho fry for the Sport
Fish Division and some red salmon
have been planted in Fraser Lake
for the Commercial Fisheries Di
vision.
“At the present time the station
consists of the hatchery, a chem
ical and biological laboratory, and
living quarters for the scientific
personnel and their families. Since
Kitoi is an isolated station it has
been impossible to persuade peo
ple to remain at the station for any
length of time unless their families
accompany them.
“The station as we see it today
was completed with a minimum of
funds and largely through the la
bors of dedicated personnel. Last
year research was expanded to
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studies of pink salmon and preda
tors that prey on young salmon.
Special spawning channel study fa
cilities are being built. This ex
pansion of studies in combination
with development of year-round
study programs has necessitated
the improvement of the water sup
ply of the hatchery including the
installation of a control dam and
pipeline and a hydro-electric plant.
When this construction is finished
in the summer of 1962, the station
will be essentially complete. While
research efforts have been pro
ductive over the years, we look for
ward to increasing the output of
research findings now that the
physical plant is nearly complete.
"The present staff consists of a
senior investigator working on red
salmon and his assistant, and a
senior investigator working on
pink salmon with an assistant as
signed to this project also. In ad
dition, there is a full-time main
tenance man and about six season
al biological aides.
(To be continued)
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