Beamer, E., Rice, C., Henderson, R., Fresh, K. and Rowse, M., 2007. Taxonomic Composition of Fish Assemblages, and Density and Size of Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Greater Skagit river Estuary Field Sampling and Data Summary Report. Skagit River System Cooperative, La Conner, WA. pp. 86.

This report summarizes over 4,500 individual fish catch records from beach seine, fyke trap, and surface trawl sets across habitat types and seasons over a three year period from 2001-2003. These collections were intended to document basic natural history information on estuarine fishes that could be used in a variety of management contexts, primarily salmon recovery planning, and monitoring and assessment. Funding for this study was primarily provided by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) to the Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) as part of the Pacific Salmon Treaty Implementation and Pacific Salmon Coastal Recovery initiatives. NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center provided offshore sampling capability (both staff and gear) for the years 2001-2003. Additional funding was provided by the Seattle District Army Corps of Engineers and Seattle City Light through a Planning Assistance to States (PAS) grant. The PAS funding enabled us to double our existing sampling efforts for the 2003 year, thus extending our spatial and temporal coverage of the greater Skagit River estuary. The data collected have been used in a number of analyses, including (Beamer et al. 2005, Rice 2007, Beamer et al. in prep, Beamer and Greene in prep.).