Project Grant R16AV00007

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Program (CFDA 15.517), provides $2,935,373 to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) for the Trinity River Hatchery (TRH) and Junction City Weir (JCW) Operations and Maintenance Project. The primary objectives of this award are to: 1) Operate the TRH to produce approximately 5 million juvenile anadromous salmon and steelhead...

This $299,124 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program (CFDA 15.608) will support a monitoring project focused on the ecological restoration of the Klamath River in California. The primary objectives are to assess the reestablishment of salmon and steelhead populations as they return to their historical spawning grounds in the upper Klamath River basin following the removal of four dams. The...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was awarded a $260,363 Formula Grant under the U.S. Department of the Interior's Sport Fish Restoration Program (CFDA 15.605) to conduct fisheries assessment and management activities in the Smith River basin in California. The key products and services to be delivered under this one-year grant include: Operating a sonar unit to enumerate anadromous salmonid spawning escapement in the Smith River, with auxiliary sampling to partition the...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $268,500 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to finalize engineering designs and implementation plans to replace an undersized concrete box culvert on Strawberry Creek in McKinleyville, CA. The existing structure is a complete barrier to upstream fish passage for ESA-listed coho salmon and steelhead trout, as well as coastal cutthroat trout and...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) will fund a $1,075,123 project to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration patterns in the Klamath River Basin in California over four years from 2023 to 2026. The Hoopa Valley Tribe will use acoustic tags to track the movement of wild and hatchery-raised juvenile Chinook salmon from the...

The Hoopa Valley Tribe received a $183,048 project grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Central Valley, Trinity River Division, Trinity River Fish and Wildlife Management federal grant program (CFDA 15.532). The award period is from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022 to address impacts of the Central Valley Project on fish, wildlife, and associated habitats in the Trinity River basin of California. Specifically, the funding will support efforts to...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation program (CFDA 11.463), will support California Trout, Inc. in implementing landscape-scale floodplain habitat restoration projects in the Sacramento River watershed. The total recommended federal funding for this 3-year project is $9,998,830, with $3,771,642 obligated in the first year beginning October 1, 2024. These projects aim to benefit the...

This $1.6 million cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 will provide the Hoopa Valley Tribe the ability to plan, design, implement, and monitor private lands habitat restoration projects in the Trinity and Klamath Basins of California from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027. The projects will support shared restoration priorities of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife program, which...

The Upper Sacramento River Salmon and Steelhead Resource Assessment project received $302,881 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Sport Fish Restoration Formula Grant program (CFDA 15.605) for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will assess sport fish populations, public use and benefits, and boat access in the Upper Sacramento River to help restore, conserve, manage and enhance...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $136,318 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Ohio State University. The project will develop a population model using statistical catch-at-age analysis to estimate age-specific abundance, mortality, and recruitment dynamics of nonnative channel catfish in the San Juan River basin. This model will assess how annual recruitment is impacted by spawner biomass and environmental variation,...