Year Began: 2021
TASK NAME: Juvenile Fish Trap Data Discovery Task
STATUS: ACTIVE
Page last edited: 06/10/2026
June 27, 2023 Meeting Recording
DOCUMENTS:
Rotary Screw Trap Data Collection Recommendations spreadsheet
TASK LEADS:
Sam Cimino (PSMFC/PNAMP): scimino@psmfc.org
Russell Scranton (BPA): rwscranton@bpa.gov
Kasey Bliesner (ODFW): kasey.bliesner@odfw.oregon.gov
Nancy Leonard (PSMFC): nleonard@psmfc.org
Megan Dethloff (PSMFC/PNAMP): mdethloff@usgs.gov
Polly Gibson (ODFW) *generously donated time and assisted in the initial kick-off of this task
Summary Description:
The Juvenile Fish Trap Data Discovery Tool’s origination came out of a need to have one consolidated product that allows fisheries managers and biologists to quickly, and visually (geospatially), inventory the Columbia River Basin’s (CRB) rotary screw trapping efforts. Fisheries manager’s appetite for the provided information and ease of which to access the information quickly expanded this tool beyond rotary screw traps and to include juvenile trapping efforts outside of the CRB. This product not only allows fisheries professionals the opportunity to observe current monitoring efforts, but it also allows managers to identify potential gaps in monitoring efforts.
To be most advantageous, this tool needs to be kept up-to-date with relevant sampling, geospatial and logistical data (i.e., locations/target species/other relevant monitoring aspects). Updates are conducted via trap managers documenting and updating their trap(s)’s information via a user-friendly juvenile trapping data entry form.
To encourage fisheries managers to regularly update their program’s juvenile trapping information, the trap information dataset (protected behind login requirement) has limited the number of required metrics to critical data only regarding these traps. Other non-required metrics are also limited to reduce duplicity of fisheries professionals having to document these details into multiple locations (i.e., CBFish, Monitoring Resources, PTAGIS, etc.). Reducing the number of metrics required and non-required, is twofold; one, to reduce the physical time managers must allocate to updating their trapping facilities (thus increasing managers compliance with regularly updating traps) and two, the key is to point people to other databases, reports, infrastructure for further information regarding these traps; making this tool remain as a reference guide instead of an encyclopedia of juvenile trapping information.
TASK OUTCOMES:
- DES for Site Operation Data
- DES for Fish Condition Data
- DES For Counts/Abundance and Trap Efficiency
TASK APPLICATION:
- Data use in multiple analytical tools for out-migrant assessments
- Data use in Life Cycle Models
- Building common JFT databases for an Agency/Organization
PRODUCTS: Data discovery tool