A spawining chum salmon in a side channel of the Matanuska River

A spawining chum salmon with it's back out of the water in a side channel of the Matanuska River. Results from this study were published in Curran, J.H., McTeague, M.L., Burril, S.E., and Zimmerman, C.E., 2011, Distribution, persistence, and hydrologic characteristics of salmon spawning habitats in clearwater side channels of the Matanuska River, southcentral Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5102, 38 p. https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5102/