Project Grant NA11NMF4380165

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 $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 $788,489 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 South Fork Stillaguamish Fall Chinook Conservation Program implemented by the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians. The key objectives are to: 1) seine up to 900 wild juvenile Chinook fry from the South Fork Stillaguamish River and its tributaries, 2) obtain tissue samples to identify fall-run Chinook, 3) rear...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $202,280 Project Grant under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) to the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife. The goal of this 22-month project, starting September 1, 2024, is to thoroughly review and, where possible, improve current stock assessment methods and estimates for Nooksack spring Chinook salmon. Key objectives include assessing escapement methodologies,...

The Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife received a $224,667 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enter 2022 return year Puget Sound and coastal Washington Chinook salmon scale ages, coded wire tag recovery information, and biological data into a centralized age database. This work will be carried out from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA #11.438), which provides...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $1,179,856 to the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) under the Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) for the three-year period from September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This Project Grant supports WDFW's hatchery operations to produce and release chinook salmon in the Puget Sound region, with the primary objective of stabilizing Puget Sound chinook populations while...

The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation will rear 100,000-250,000 summer Chinook salmon to yearling size under a $296,424 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Funded through NOAA's Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program, the project aims to improve adult return rates and enhance the ability to collect local broodstock by rearing a portion of annual summer Chinook production to yearling size. Initially implemented at an...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife a $4.476 million Project Grant under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438). The grant will fund the replacement of manual fish marking trailers with an automated fish marking system to ensure that approximately 100 million hatchery-produced salmon and steelhead produced annually by WDFW are properly adipose fin clipped as required by state...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,653,582 Project Grant under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) to the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians. The purpose of this award is to implement the South Fork Stillaguamish Fall Chinook Natural Stock Restoration Program. Key activities include: 1) seining up to 900 wild juvenile Chinook fry from the South Fork Stillaguamish River and transporting them to the tribe's hatchery; 2)...

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...