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Location & Year(s)

Year-round - Average Annual Total Harvest (Geese)

 

White-fronted

Geese

Cackling Canada Geese

Emperor Geese

Black Brant

Lesser Canada Geese

Unknown Canada Geese

Lesser Snow Geese

Aleutian Canada Geese

Total Goose Harvest1

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (0 1995-2000)

11,897

11,709

1,638

3,808

9,742

0

2,166

0

40,908

Bering Strait Mainland (1995)

549

471

111

2,627

2,134

1,608

1,909

0

9,414

Diomede Island (1995)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

St. Lawrence Island (0 1993 & 1996)

0

0

61

56

3

4

212

0

344

Togiak NWR, (0 1995-2000)

739

1,079

168

 826

957

0

30

0

3,799

Nushagak-Dillingham-Iliamna

        (0 1995-1999)

757

546

58

231

788

 0

86

0

2,466

Alaska Peninsula/Becharof NWR (0 1995-2000)

153

262

170

178

264

0

12

0

1,039

Northwest Arctic (1997/1998)

2,871

0

117

734

0

5,812

163

0

9,757

Koyukuk/Nowitna NWR,

       (0 1998, 1999)

425

0

0

3

631

0

0

0

1,124

Kanuti NWR (0 1999-2000)

74

0

0

   0

163

0

3

0

240

Innoko NWR (2000)

396

0

0

  0

823

0

9

0

 1,258

Yukon Flats NWR (2000)

1,420

0

0

 0

1,253

0

274

0

2,960

Upper Tanana River (2000)

27

0

0

0

24

0

0

0

51

North Slope (1992/93)3

364

0

0

464

441

0

6

0

1,7585

Aleutian Islands

0

29

855

1,121

116

1,031

53

27

3,2386

Kodiak Archipelago4

0

0

0

21

0

967

0

0

988

TOTALS

19,672

14,096

3,179

10,070

18,306

8,455

4,923

27

79,397

 

1 Anaktuvuk & Atkasuk - 1995, Kaktovik - 0 1992 & 1995, Nuiqsut 0 1993 & 1995. No 1990's data is available on the other North Slope communities. In the late 1980's, Barrow, Wainwright and Pt. Lay had an average harvest of 5,700 geese and 7,900 ducks.

2 Does not include the City of Kodiak, survey season was March 1999-March 2000.


Sources: Wentworth & Wong 2001; Paige et al. 1996; ADF&G and Kawerak, Inc. 1997; Wong and Wentworth 2001; Georgette 2000; Webb 2000; USFWS, 2002; Wong et al. 2000 and 2001; Andersen & Jennings 2001a & b; Brower & Opie 1996 & 1997; Brower et al. 2000; Hepa et al. 1997; ADF&G 2001; Stovall 2000.