Expand the capacity of Treaty Tribes to increase ability to identify and analyze the gut contents and toxic loading of juvenile Chinook salmon and forage fishes. Project will obtain the first regional-scale Chinook food web data since 2014-2015 while training Tribal communities on sampling and modeling of fisheries and informing fisheries management on the conservation, recovery, and exploitation of forage fishes.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Killer Whale Research and Conservation Program
Project Title: Building a Community-Based Network to Monitor Forage Fish for the Chinook Salmon Food Web (WA)
Organization:
Kwiaht: Center for the Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea
Project ID:
0314.23.078225
Description:
Award Amount:
$40104.45
Location:
Marine waters of Puget Sound from Nisqually Delta to Bellingham Bay and San Juan Islands.