This agreement will work with the partner to monitor eulachon fish populations run size, run timing, distribution, and other factors that affect the population viability

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R10-Alaska Region awarded Chilkoot Indian Association a cooperative agreement totaling $256,896 on June 9, 2026, to monitor eulachon fish populations across Northern Southeast Alaska under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) Agreements program (CFDA 10.702).

The agreement funds monitoring of eulachon run size, run timing, distribution, and other factors affecting population viability through June 8, 2031. Eulachon populations have declined significantly, and the work directly supports Alaska Native subsistence lifestyles and broader public subsistence use across Alaska. Chilkoot Indian Association, a federally recognized Alaska Native tribal government based in Haines, Alaska, serves approximately 1,905 Tlingit and Haida community members. Place of performance is Alaska.

This work is key to alaskan native culture who rely on subsistence lifestyles in alaska, and the majority of eulachon populations have been declining. This agreement has benefit to not only the alaska native people, but to the overall public of alaska who rely on subsistence.