Fishbio

Fishbio, an Oakdale, California-based environmental consulting firm, provides aquatic ecosystem monitoring and fisheries research services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards), operating predominantly under total small business set-asides. The firm specializes in salmonid and anadromous fish population monitoring using rotary screw traps, fyke traps, and mark-recapture methods to support real-time river operations and environmental stewardship across California's river systems.

Fishbio's customer footprint is highly concentrated with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, which accounts for all four of the firm's prime federal contracts and $8.4 million of the $8.5 million combined potential value across all awards. The Bureau of Reclamation drives nearly 100% of Fishbio's federal contract revenue through multiple monitoring programs on California's Central Valley rivers. Fishbio also holds a project grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 and has subcontracted to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission on a kelp dispersal enhancement grant. The firm operates on a sparse award cadence—one to two awards per year—reflecting the specialized, region-specific nature of its work and the dominance of a single customer agency.

Representative capability work includes a $3.1 million firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Bureau of Reclamation in August 2026 to monitor juvenile salmonid abundance on the American, Stanislaus, and Sacramento Rivers through July 2029, encompassing rotary screw trap data collection, capture-efficiency trials, and biological sampling. Fishbio also holds a $3.6 million contract (ultimate completion August 2028) for monitoring adult anadromous steelhead in the Lower San Joaquin and Stanislaus Rivers, and completed a $26,666 repair task for fyke traps in January 2026. A January 2025 project grant from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 covers mark-recapture research on Pacific lamprey trap efficiency on the Tuolumne River, with deliverables including presentations and a peer-reviewed manuscript.

Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $3.9 million across FY2022–FY2025 (FY2023 peak of $1.7 million), with Fishbio operating at roughly 2.3 FTEs on federal services contracts in FY2025. The firm self-performs all work; across SCI prime records, zero percent of contractor hours are subcontracted. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services work run median $175.76 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $294.72 per hour. One award ($3.6 million ceiling) reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and faces recompete risk in that window. Fishbio competes exclusively under total small business set-asides and does not sit on government-wide vehicles, IDIQs, or BPAs; all work flows through direct procurement from the Bureau of Reclamation or grant award from Fish and Wildlife Service.