Kuskokwim River

Description

The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River is a river, 702 miles (1,130 km) long, in Southwest Alaska in the United States. It is the ninth largest river in the United States by average discharge volume at its mouth and seventeenth largest by basin drainage area. The Kuskokwim River is the longest river system contained entirely within a single U.S. state. Sport fisheries management is partitioned into Lower and Upper Management Areas in the Kuskokwim River drainage. There are 23 fish species indigenous to the Kuskokwim River Drainage, all of them occur within the Lower Kuskokwim. Sport anglers commonly fish for Chinook (king), coho (silver) salmon, pink (humpy) salmon, sockeye (red) salmon, chum (dog) salmon, Arctic grayling, rainbow trout, lake trout, Arctic char, Dolly Varden, sheefish (inconnu), Northern pike, and burbot. Occasionally anglers take least cicsco, humpback whitefish, round whitefish, and broad whitefish. Fish species that are present in the Kuskokwim River but are not targeted by sport anglers include Alaska blackfish, lakechub, longnose sucker, slimy sculpin and Arctic lamprey.