The Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association is dedicated to salmon fisheries development in the Area K Management Area for the benefit of all common property users — subsistence, sport, and commercial — through research and management efforts, habitat monitoring and protection, stocking, enhancement and rehabilitation projects. KRAA further promotes respect for Kodiak Area salmon resources through science education partnership programs.
About KRAA
The Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association (KRAA) is a private nonprofit corporation formed in 1983 to manage salmon enhancement efforts formerly operated by the State of Alaska, Department of Fish and Game. During its formative first decade, KRAA achieved much through lake enrichment projects and, by 1994, supplemental sockeye production from stocking barren lakes reached significant levels. Since then, KRAA's contribution to the Kodiak Area salmon harvest has continued to expand, annually providing an average of over $5 million increased value to Kodiak's commercial fleet and more than 7.5 million adult salmon to the Kodiak Area.
Alaska fish & game
KRAA works very closely with Alaska Fish & Game to monitor and enrich salmon production. To read more about Alaska Fish & Game, click on the link below.
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Our new website will feature a revolving display frame on the home page, as well as a gallery page featuring a slideshow of Kodiak salmon related photos. Do you have a great shot of your seiner making a haul on a glorious day in Perenosa? Or maybe one of that trophy king your cousin from Kansas landed last summer? Maybe one of your kid helping out with the Buskin Lake Coho eggtake? Whatever the shot, you can get into the picture by sending us your digital photos featuring Kodiak Area salmon.
To submit your photos for consideration, send attachments (in jpeg format) to: kraa@gci.net.
Hatchery
KRAA comprises two hatchery facilities for the incubation and rearing of various salmon species to stock the Kodiak Area common property fishery. Our Pillar Creek Hatchery, on the Kodiak road system, provides juvenile Chinook, sockeye, and coho salmon, as well as rainbow trout. The history-rich Kitoi Bay Hatchery operates on a larger scale, producing sockeye, chum, pink, and Coho salmon juveniles. From its Afognak Island location, the Kitoi facility also oversees the Cost Recovery Harvest and conducts on-site egg takes. Both hatcheries are supplied by brood stocks from native salmon systems around the archipelago—Saltery Lake, Afognak Lake, Monashka Creek and Big Kitoi Creek.
Salmon In Schools
KRAA wholeheartedly supports the study of biological science in Kodiak area schools through cooperative education programs, such as the Buskin Lake Coho egg take (in cooperation with ADF&G) and school field trips to Pillar Creek Hatchery. These activities allow young learners a firsthand experience of salmon propagation, as well as an appreciation of KRAA's role in enhancing Kodiak Area salmon resources.