{"status": "Ongoing", "organizations": [{"category": "Industry/Consultants", "logo_name": "13_41_17_434_abr_logo.png", "name": "ABR, Inc.", "description": null}, {"category": "Industry/Consultants", "logo_name": "CPIAlogo.png", "name": "ConocoPhillips", "description": ""}], "links": [], "collections": [], "description": "In 2012, ABR worked with key fishery\r\nstakeholders in Nuiqsut, Alaska, to continue\r\nlong-term monitoring of the Colville River\r\nsubsistence fishery, which is conducted each fall\r\nafter freeze-up in the Ni\u0121liq Channel of the\r\nColville River. The 2012 subsistence fishery\r\nmonitoring program is a continuation of long-term\r\nstudies that have taken place annually since 1985\r\n(no data were collected in 1999). Monitoring has\r\nbeen conducted by several contractors over that\r\ntime period (MJM Research [1985\u20132005], LGL\r\nAlaska Research Associates [2006]), and ABR\r\n[2007\u2013present]) on behalf of ConocoPhillips\r\nAlaska, Inc. (CPAI) and its predecessors (see\r\nDaigneault and Reiser 2007 and Moulton et al.\r\n2006). The monitoring program has historically\r\nfocused primarily on the fall harvest of arctic cisco\r\n(Coregonus autumnalis; Qaaktaq, in I\u00f1upiaq),\r\nwhich are a staple in the diet of Nuiqsut residents\r\nand traded widely with other northern Alaska\r\ncommunities. However, the program also attempts\r\nto quantify harvest of other subsistence species\r\ncaptured in the Qaaktaq fishery. The primary\r\nimpetus for the monitoring program is concern that\r\noil and gas exploration and development in the\r\nnearshore marine environment and, more recently,\r\non the Colville River delta (henceforth the Colville\r\ndelta) could adversely affect these anadromous or\r\namphidromous fish. Furthermore, in recent years\r\nthis monitoring program has continued as\r\nmandated under stipulations defined by the CD-4\r\ndevelopment permit issued by the North Slope\r\nBorough (NSB04-117, 2004). The main goals of\r\nthe monitoring program have been to obtain\r\nestimates of the total fishing effort and catch and\r\nmore recently to monitor other environmental\r\ncomponents of the fishery.\r\nABR continues to implement the arctic cisco\r\nfall fishery monitoring program as conceived\r\nduring a series of community meetings with fishery\r\nstakeholders in 2007 (Seigle et al. 2008a). The\r\nresult of those stakeholder meetings was that 1)\r\nABR worked with the community of Nuiqsut to\r\nformulate a plan for continuing long-term fishery\r\nmonitoring each fall and, 2) ABR made a\r\ncommitment to continue working with the\r\ncommunity via interactions with a Qaaktaq Panel\r\nof expert fishers to ensure that community\r\nconcerns are continually incorporated into the\r\nmonitoring plan. This process has been successful\r\nto date, and subsequently the monitoring program\r\nhas been working closely with fishers and other\r\nstakeholders to keep all parties abreast of\r\ndevelopments in the fishery. As an integral part of\r\nthe monitoring program, ABR has conducted\r\nnumerous meetings with community members and\r\na Qaaktaq Panel (composed of expert participants\r\nin the fishery) before, during, and after the fishing\r\nseason, and has offered assistance to fishers on the\r\nice whenever seeking interviews. The objectives of\r\nthe monitoring program in 2012 were to:\r\n\u2022 Continue working with key stakeholders as\r\nper agreements made in 2007 (Seigle et al.\r\n2008a, Appendix 1).\r\n\u2022 Monitor the harvest of arctic cisco\r\nthroughout the fishing effort, using interviews\r\nof fishery participants.\r\n\u2022 Record the number of nets fishing at any\r\ngiven time and net dimensions and locations\r\nduring the season.\r\n\u2022 Document the subsistence fishery harvest.\r\n\u2022 Collect age, length and weight information\r\nfor a subsample of arctic cisco harvested.\r\n\u2022 Measure water salinity and quality (i.e.,\r\ntesting for metals and petroleum-based\r\norganic compounds) in primary fishing\r\nareas.\r\n\u2022 Compare the 2011 results with those of\r\nprevious years for this program and other\r\nhistorical data.\r\n\u2022 Continue to raise awareness for, and maintain\r\na high level of participation in, the\r\nQaaktaq Panel meetings.", "end_date": "2012-12-01", "title": "Fall 2012 Subsistence Fishery Monitoring On The Colville River", "other_contacts": [], "iso_topics": [], "tags": ["satellite", "Niqliq", "Northern", "Colville River", "2012", "fishery", "ABR", "alaska", "apline"], "bounds": [{"geom": "{\"type\":\"Polygon\",\"coordinates\":[[[-152.2636032795796,70.03291021370266],[-150.1884710840829,70.03291021370266],[-150.1884710840829,70.50993159770778],[-152.2636032795796,70.50993159770778],[-152.2636032795796,70.03291021370266]]]}", "type": "Attachment"}], "start_date": "2012-10-01", "regions": [], "other_agencies": "ConocoPhillips", "data_types": [], "archived_at": null, "primary_contacts": [], "type": {"color": "#c09853", "name": "Project", "description": "catalog record for projects with no associated data/observation files"}, "slug": "fall-2012-subsistence-fishery-monitoring-on-the-colville-river", "attachments": [{"category": "Geojson", "file_name": "imported_locations", "description": "gLynx locations", "file_size": 4201}, {"category": "Primary Thumbnail", "file_name": "2012_Colville River Fishery.pdf", "description": null, "file_size": 5080012}]}