Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, Inc.
Enhancing and Rehabilitating Salmon Production in Southeast Alaska

SSRAA will begin two new programs in 2007 with funding help from the Pacific Salmon Commission's Northern Fund.

The Northern Fund will fund a portion of three-year operating expenses for coho enhancement at Bakewell Lake, a project conducted by SSRAA in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service. The program will operate similarly to our Neck Lake program, but will use fall coho.  Beginning this spring, approximately 500,000 SSRAA-raised smolts will be transported to the lake, reared in net pens and released into the lake each fall.  Bakewell Lake has a fish ladder maintained and operated by the USFS; the fish ladder will permit returning adults to migrate into the lake to spawn and increase natural smolt production.

The Northern Fund is also funding sockeye project at McDonald Lake on Cleveland Peninsula.  The five-year restoration program entails  collecting eggs in the wild at McDonald Lake for incubation and rearing to full-term yearling smolts at Burnett Inlet Hatchery.  Egg collection begins this fall, with the first smolts being returned to the lake for release in 2009.  The program will contribute up to 450,000 smolts annually from 2009-2011.

Al Murray inspects rockslide damage to the ladder .  All damage to the ladder was repaired during the summer of 2005.

Wilson Arm (top) and the entrance to Bakewell to Bakewell Arm (right).

Todd Tisler, U.S. Forest Service, inspects the top of the fish ladder where a camera monitors returning salmon.

Al Murray (SSRAA) and Dick Aho (U.S. Forest Service) in the computer and video monitoring equipment vault.

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Joe Teter, U.S. Forest Service, just above the fish ladder entrance.

Bakewell Arm

U.S. Forest Service employees inspect steel grates on the fish ladder.

Badger Creek at the head of Bakewell Lake.

Bakewell Creek, just below the barrier falls and fish ladder.