Project Grant 701814J334

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 $644,989.05 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) supports 7 distinct projects conducted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). The key products and services delivered through this funding include: Collecting salmon eggs and conducting fish stocking activities to meet regional stocking needs across Alaska. Coordinating Chinook salmon enhancement projects in Southeast...

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...

This $176,327 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) supports the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) in verifying and recalibrating the estimated escapement of fall Chinook salmon within the Grays Harbor indicator stock. The key objectives are to compare the current approach with three alternative methods: redd counts across the entire spawning...

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 $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 $151,816 federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will support the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) in monitoring and estimating the escapement of California Coastal (CC) Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Eel and Van Duzen Rivers during the fall and winter of 2024-2025. The project will utilize Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) cameras to...

The Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife will receive $9,568,239 under this Project Grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to implement provisions of the updated 2019-2028 Pacific Salmon Treaty and associated biological opinion. Key activities include stock and fishery monitoring through coded wire tagging, acoustic tagging, and otolith marking of salmon, as well as sampling Puget Sound fisheries for recovered tags and otoliths....

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 Alaska Department of Fish and Game will receive $313,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7. The award is provided under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to support a Kenai River coho salmon telemetry project from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. Funding will allow Alaska DFG to implement activities such as tagging coho salmon with telemetry devices to study migration...