“…Abbreviations are as follows: WKAM ¼ western Kamchatka Peninsula, EKAM ¼ eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, NORT ¼ Norton Sound, NWBBYK ¼ northwestern Bristol Bay and the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, SEBB ¼ southeastern Bristol Bay, AKPEN ¼ Alaska Peninsula, WGOA ¼ western Gulf of Alaska, and EGOA ¼ eastern Gulf of Alaska. Pie charts show the regional distributions of the baseline data collections and the production of sockeye salmon (Eggers and Irvine 2007;Bugaev et al 2008). Baseline data set evaluation for mixed-stock analysis.-Eight reporting groups were delineated based on geographic structure (e.g., regions) and relative production of sockeye salmon (Table 1; Figure 1): western Kamchatka Peninsula (WKAM), eastern Kamchatka Peninsula (EKAM), Norton Sound (NORT), northwestern Bristol Bay and the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers (NWBBYK [most of these populations are from northwestern Bristol Bay and Kuskokwim Bay and River; the Yukon River fish represent less than 1% of the production for this reporting group]), southeastern Bristol Bay (SEBB), Alaska Peninsula (AKPEN), western Gulf of Alaska (WGOA), and eastern Gulf of Alaska (EGOA [including Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and the Pacific Northwest of the United States]).…”