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         The Rampart Rapids Fall Chum Salmon Tagging Project investigations into the declining ratio of tagged chum salmon in the test catches and weir counts upriver of the project spawned the Rapids video project as a method of counting salmon in a less harmful way. After operating since 1996 this important project became a victim of funding cuts in 2006 and does not run anymore.

         The 5A test fishwheel at the mouth of the Tanana River, started by local resident Bill Fliris, was the next project to use the video capture technology developed at Rapids Research Center. It is now run by Pat Moore of Tanana and is one of the longer run projects on the river.

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Rampart Rapids Fall Chum Salmon Tagging Project reports (first to use video capture in it's tagging recap wheel)

  Estimated Abundance of Adult Fall Chum Salmon in the Upper Yukon River, Alaska, 1996. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fisheries Technical Report Number 45 Fairbanks, Alaska.

  Estimated Abundance of Adult Fall Chum Salmon in the upper Yukon River, Alaska, 1997. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fisheries Technical Report Number 56 Fairbanks, Alaska.

  Estimated abundance of Adult Fall Chum Salmon in the middle Yukon River, Alaska, 1998-1999. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fisheries Technical Report Number 57, Fairbanks, Alaska

 Estimated Abundance of Adult Fall Chum Salmon in the Middle Yukon River, Alaska, 2000 - 2001. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fisheries Technical Report Number 62, Fairbanks, Alaska.

5A Tanana test fishwheel reports using fish friendly wheel and video capture system

  2002 5A Test wheel Appendix - Building a Salmon Friendly Fishwheel.

 Y5A Tanana Final Report 2005.

Tozitna River Weir Reports have Chinook and chum escapement data

  Abundance and Run Timing of Adult Salmon in the Tozitna River, Alaska, 2005. USFWS Office of Subsistence Management, Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program, Annual Report No. 04-206, Anchorage, Alaska

  Abundance and Run Timing of Adult Salmon in the Tozitna River, Alaska, 2004. USFWS Office of Subsistence Management, Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program, Annual Report No. 04-206, Anchorage, Alaska.

  Abundance and Run Timing of Adult Salmon in the Tozitna River, Alaska, 2003. USFWS Office of Subsistence Management, Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program, Annual Report No. 03-203, Anchorage, Alaska.