Tracking Hatchery Data from Eggs to Spawners Across Regions

We hope you are planning to attend the Washington-British (WA-BC) AFS Chapter meeting this year because PNAMP is co-hosting two workshops with partners. While each workshop has a different goal, both workshops are related to sharing important data needed for salmon recovery work.

Visit the conference website for more information.

If you are in the need for hatchery data specifically, join us for our half-day workshop Tracking Hatchery Data From Eggs to Spawners Across Regions (sponsored by PSMFC StreamNet and PNAMP). In this session, you will learn about the Coordinated Assessments data exchange (CAX), a data-sharing network supported by the Coordinated Assessments Partnership (CAP). CAX provides a system for sharing important hatchery data, including hatchery program details, SARs for hatchery runs, and hatchery releases. The CAX was initially created to share high level indicator data, like Natural Origin Spawner Abundance (NOSA), Recruits per Spawner (R/S) and Smolt to Adult Returns (SAR). Recently, the system has been expanded to include hatchery data, building on its original foundation.  

In this workshop, you will gain an understanding of the development process and key elements of data standards, using CAP’s Hatchery Coordinated Assessment (HCA) to explore technical specifications for data storage and exchange. You will also learn about hatchery data availability, how to access data via CAX, and how to use the metadata within records for proper data citation and attribution. This workshop will also provide the opportunity to actively inform the collaborative development of CAX to meet the needs of data providers and users throughout our region.  

You could join us in the morning for the first half of the Fishing for Clarity: Knowledge Modeling to Support Cross-Organizational Collaboration and Data Sharing About Salmon Escapement workshop and then jump over to the Hatchery Data workshop! See link above to register for the conference and workshops.