Cooperative Agreement 26AN11100500029

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Subsistence Management under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636), will fund long-term monitoring of adult Chinook salmon abundance in the Copper River, Alaska from 2022-2025. The objective is to estimate the inriver abundance of Copper River Chinook salmon such that the estimate is within 25% of the true abundance 95% of the time. The $215,000 award to the Native Village of Eyak will...

This $682,107 Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) is funding a multi-faceted effort to mitigate economic impacts from reductions in Chinook salmon harvests in Southeast Alaska. The key components of the program include: Hatchery fish marking, tagging, and evaluation; hatchery enhancement projects; and hatchery research. Sub-awards to entities like the Alaska...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program provides $200,000 to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska to install AI-enabled video chutes to automate real-time monitoring of sockeye salmon at Redoubt Lake in Southeast Alaska. The goal is to generate accurate in-season salmon counts at a lower cost than traditional manual monitoring, enabling the tribe to manage subsistence and commercial harvest regulations more effectively. Sitka...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) will fund three projects to monitor the migratory behaviors, overwintering areas, and movements of Kenai River Chinook salmon juveniles and smolt into the Kenai River estuary. The award will also support estimation of annual smolt abundance, marine survival, and the influence of size and outmigration timing of Anchor River or...

This $512,630 federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) will support the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) in conducting scientific research and conservation efforts for the Chilkat River stock of Chinook salmon. The funding will be used to estimate smolt abundance, adult escapement, and harvest of this salmon population, allowing for the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1.19 million project grant to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game through the Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA #11.438) to support assessment and data collection activities for Chinook salmon stocks in Alaska from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Specifically, the grant will fund projects to estimate abundance, age/sex composition, outmigration numbers of smolt, and future marine harvest of Chinook salmon in the Chilkat River...

This $758,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) will fund the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) to maintain or increase coded-wire-tag sampling rates for chinook salmon caught in Southeast Alaska commercial fisheries. The key objective is to ensure that at least 20% of chinook salmon caught in the commercial fisheries of Southeast Alaska are...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $4,000,000 to restore fish passage to up to 14 miles of high-quality habitat in Southeast Alaska. The project will address barriers at 11 culverts on Native-owned and non-federal lands to improve passage for salmonid species, which are regional priorities. The Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition, a non-profit organization based in...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the Alaska Department of Fish & Game a $283,418 Project Grant under the Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This award supports work to improve salmon management and monitoring capabilities in Southeast Alaska by focusing on escapement estimates, biologically-based escapement goals, abundance-based management methods, stock composition...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was awarded a $179,540 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) to document contemporary salmon harvest and use patterns in Manokotak, Alaska. Over the three-year period from April 2022 to December 2025, ADF&G will collaborate with the Bristol Bay Native Association and Manokotak Nunaniq School to administer a comprehensive household harvest survey, conduct key respondent...