Cooperative Agreement F12AC00190

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $200,000 Tribal Wildlife Grant (CFDA 15.639) to the Chickaloon Native Village for a 12-month Matanuska Watershed Historical and Contemporary Salmon Research Project beginning on January 1, 2025. The project aims to: 1) describe salmon run timing, enumeration, and species composition in Moose Creek using foot surveys; 2) quantify juvenile salmon abundance in Premier Creek prior to restoration work; 3) perform a fish health survey in Moose Creek; 4)...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636), will enable the Native Village of Eyak to maintain a meaningful role in subsistence fisheries management. The $157,875 award will fund the retention of a full-time tribal fish biologist to develop studies and conduct research to inform the management of regional subsistence fisheries, including estimating the in-river...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's (NPS) Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) provides $104,766.14 to the Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission (AITRC) to identify the current distribution of harvestable fish species in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The project will map the locations of key fish populations including Arctic grayling, burbot, Dolly Varden, lake trout, rainbow trout, and whitefish. This information will help inform...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $166,772 Cooperative Agreement under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) to the Napaimute Native Village of Alaska. The funding supports a 3-year project (2025-2027) to facilitate the management and conservation of fisheries resources, particularly salmon, for the benefit of federally qualified subsistence users in the Kuskokwim River region. The project employs a biologist, outreach coordinator, and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639), awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Native Village of Eyak (doing business as Ilanka Clinic) located in Cordova, Alaska. The grant funding will support two years of operational activities for the tribe's fisheries program, including: Estimating the 2024 and 2025 in-river abundance of Copper River Chinook salmon within 25% of the true value 95% of the time. Enumerating the daily passage of sockeye...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior, under the Alaska Subsistence Management Program (CFDA 15.636), provides $166,556 to the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe (YTT) from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The funding supports YTT's efforts to co-manage subsistence fisheries, such as salmon and eulachon, with federal agencies. This includes collecting local indigenous knowledge, conveying information to subsistence users, and reporting community feedback to...

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 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program provides $176,008 to the Hoonah Indian Association to install and operate a fish weir with video monitoring in the Hoktaheen system. This project will build complete and accurate records of sockeye and other important fish species, as well as year-round monitoring of water quality and temperatures in the main creek and lakes. The goal is to improve understanding of the...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $3,000,000 to the Chickaloon Native Village in Alaska to restore natural hydrologic and ecological function in the Moose Creek watershed. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) design salmon habitat restoration for up to 5 miles of the upper Moose Creek watershed, 2) implement Phase 1 of salmon habitat restoration by reducing velocity barriers,...