New Salmon Database Management System

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has created a new database that should be of interest to some of the readers of this blog:

AYK Salmon Database Management System- from the website, " The ADF&G, Division of Commercial Fisheries, Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) Region has created a salmon database management system (DBMS) for public use. The goal of this system is to provide managers, researchers, and the public involved in salmon fisheries in the AYK Region with a system to enter and process new data, as well as to retrieve historical data. The AYK salmon DBMS provides access to AYK project descriptions, biological measurements of age, sex, and length, escapement data, and Norton Sound test fisheries data through this internet site. The website also includes a demonstration of extraction and reporting of subsistence and commercial harvest data for Norton Sound only."

Alaska State agencies produce a number of searchable databases. To see a growing list of such resources, please see http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Alaska.

Alaska Fish and Game Publications 1960s to Present, Decade by Decade

I was recently asked to compile a comprehensive list of publications held by the Alaska State Library by a division within our Alaska Department of Fish and Game. I thought it might be a good opportunity to show how the concerns of the state have varied (or not) through the years.

I actually located over a thousand items, which I’m not going to list here. If you’re curious, you can browse the division publication records on Open WorldCat at:

Alaska. Division of Wildlife Conservation
Alaska. Division of Game

Here is a randomly selected group of publication, one a decade from the 1960s through now:

1960s

Fur mammal investigations ; snowshoe hare investigations ; wildlife reconnaissance : work plans G, H, and L-1. (1961)
http://worldcat.org/oclc/31102530


1970s

Polar bear report / Jack W Lentfer (1971)
http://worldcat.org/oclc/34252301


1980s

Nelchina basin wolf studies : final report /
Warren B Ballard; Robert O Stephenson; Ted H Spraker 1981 English Book iv, 201 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. (1981)
http://worldcat.org/oclc/8048420


1990s

Effects of weather on caribou forages, productivity, and nutrition within the range of the Chisana herd / Elizabeth A Lenart (1995)
http://worldcat.org/oclc/34254140

2000

Interrelationship of forage and moose in game management unit 13 / William B Collins (2000)
http://worldcat.org/oclc/62247944

2007

Alaska's Inside Passage wildlife viewing guide / Woodford, Riley. (2007)
http://worldcat.org/oclc/71065089