Cooperative Agreement F23AC01973
- 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, 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 $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...
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Alaska Department of Fish & Game received a $164,450 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior's Office of Subsistence Management under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The project documents traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) from residents of Ambler, Noorvik, and Kotzebue regarding changes in salmon distribution, abundance, migration, and timing in the...
- The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) will receive $600,000 under a five-year Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to support marine research surveys of Chinook and chum salmon from the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim region of Alaska. The funding will help ADF&G co-lead the longstanding Northern Bering Sea survey with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through June 2028. This survey is critical for forecasting Yukon River salmon stocks up to...
- 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)...
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Alaska Department of Fish & Game received a $214,951 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of the Interior (Interior Business Center) under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. This award supports the continuation of the Kuskokwim River Subsistence Salmon Fishery monitoring project, which has operated since 1988 to track subsistence salmon harvests across approximately 27...
- 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...
- The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $2.14 million Project Grant to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) for the period of July 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. Funding will support maintaining or increasing coded wire tag sampling rates for Chinook salmon caught in commercial fisheries in Southeast Alaska at an objective of 20% or more each statistical...
SUBSISTENCE HARVEST ESTIMATES ARE LACKING IN THE CHIGNIK AREA. SURVEYS CONDUCTED BY ADF G IN 2012 INDICATE THAT 61 CHINOOK SALMON WERE HARVESTED FOR SUBSISTENCE, HOWEVER STATE SUBSISTENCE PERMITS ONLY INDICATE THAT 37 CHINOOK SALMON WERE HARVESTED. FEDERALLY QUALIFIED SUBSISTENCE USERS (FQSU) ARE ISSUED ON AVERAGE THREE FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE PERMITS A YEAR, AND THE REPORTED HARVESTED PER YEAR ON FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE PERMITS VARIES FROM BETWEEN ZERO TO FIVE. SUBSISTENCE FISH HARVEST IS LIKELY GOING UNDERREPORTED DUE TO LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS, LACK OF ACCESS TO SUBSISTENCE PERMITS, OR BOTH.TO OBTAIN RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF SUBSISTENCE SALMON HARVESTED IN FEDERALLY MANAGED WATERS, THE USFWS AND THE CHIGNIK INTERTRIBAL COALITION WILL PARTNER TO HIRE AND TRAIN A SEASONAL FISHERIES TECHNICIAN. THIS TECHNICIAN WILL BE TRAINED TO ISSUE FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE PERMITS TO QUALIFIED SUBSISTENCE USERS, AND WILL CONDUCT WEEKLY SURVEYS FROM MAY THROUGH NOVEMBER, INTERVIEWING FQSU ABOUT SUBSISTENCE HARVEST EFFORT.THE CHIGNIK COALITION WILL PLAY A KEY ROLE IN THIS PROJECT. WITHOUT THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND EXPERIENCE IN THE AREA IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR THE USFWS TO BE ABLE TO COLLECT THE HARVEST INFORMATION IN A TIMELY MANNER. THE EMPLOYEE HIRED BY THE CHIGNIK COALITION WILL HAVE LOCAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE VILLAGE, WHICH WILL HELP WITH WEEKLY COLLECTION OF FQSU HARVEST INFORMATION A USFWS TECHNICIAN WOULD HAVE MORE DIFFICULTY GATHERING SUBSISTENCE HARVEST INFORMATION. THE COALITION WILL GAIN EXPERIENCE IN MANAGING EMPLOYEES IN THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS AND WILL BE BETTER SUITED TO COMPETE FOR FUNDING OF SIMILAR PROJECTS IN THE FUTURE.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 9/15/25 | ||
| Not listed | $19.3k | 7/15/24 | ||
| Not listed | $19.1k | 7/5/23 |