Photos courtesy of Patrice Kohl, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Alaska Department of Fish and Game technician Ronda McGrady watches the 
department’s fish wheel scoop salmon from the Kenai River at the sockeye salmon counter site at mile 19 of the river Monday. She and technician Jerry Strait were at the fish wheel Monday to measure and take scale samples. The technicians are tasked with measuring and sampling 10 percent of the run. A record-breaking 230,643 sockeyes were counted in the river Sunday.
A graph showing the spike in the Kenai River sockeye count Sunday, posted on the Fish and Game sonar count page Monday.
Srait removes a fish from the live box at the sockeye counter site. The salmon collect in the fish box, then the technicians remove them one by one, take a scale sample and measure them.Strait measures a fish at the sockeye counter site in the Kenai River on Monday.Strait releases the sockeye after measuring it and taking a scale sample.
