StreamNet, 1999-2000 Annual Report.
- Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Gladstone, OR
The StreamNet Project is a cooperative project that provides basic fishery management data in a consistent format across the Columbia Basin region, with some data from outside the region. Specific categories of data are acquired from the multiple data generating agencies in the Columbia Basin, converted into a standardized data exchange format (DEF) and distributed to fish researchers, managers and decision makers directly or through an on-line data retrieval system (www.streamnet.org). The project is funded by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) as part of the Northwest Power Planning Council's (NWPPC) Fish and Wildlife Program. This cooperative effort is composed of a region-wide project administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) that is responsible for project management, regional data management and data delivery (Region), plus seven contributing projects within the data generating entities: Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC); Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG); Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP); Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW); Shoshone-Bannock Tribes; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). The contributing projects are funded through the StreamNet contract but work within their respective agencies and are referred to here as the agency's StreamNet project (for example, ''IDFG StreamNet'' for Idaho's project). The StreamNet Project provides an important link in the chain of data flow in the Columbia Basin, with specific emphasis on data collected routinely over time by management agencies. Basic fish related data are collected in the field by the various state, tribal and federal agencies in the basin for purposes related to each agency's individual mission and responsibility. As a result, there often is a lack of standardization among agencies in field methodology or data management. To be able to utilize data for comparison or analysis over the entire basin from multiple agencies, it is necessary to standardize the data to the degree possible so that like-data are equivalent over jurisdictional lines. Since the data are not collected in a standardized way, StreamNet fulfills that role by acquiring the data sets and converting the data from all agencies into the standardized DEF. Where field methodologies differ to the degree that the data can not be made comparable, the data are presented as different data types. This way, data are converted only once and made available for research, management and administrative purposes instead of forcing each person needing basin wide data to attempt data standardization individually.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
- Sponsoring Organization:
- United States. Bonneville Power Administration
- DOE Contract Number:
- 00000293
- OSTI ID:
- 789588
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/BP-00000293-1; R&D Project: 198810804; Contract 00000293; TRN: US200201%%199
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Sep 2001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
COLUMBIA RIVER
FISHERIES
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
STANDARDIZATION
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Anadromous fishes - Columbia River Watershed - Information services
Salmon - Columbia River Watershed - Information services
Steelhead (Fish) - Columbia River Watershed - Information services