Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

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Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

• Tribal Initiatives and Exchange Network Projects
• 4th Annual National Information Exchange Network
• Tribal Users Meeting
• Albuquerque, New Mexico
• March 24-25, 2009
• Presented by Bruce Jones, SSHIAP Section Manager

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• The NWIFC is primarily a support service
  organization that provides direct services to its
  member tribes to assist them in their natural
  resources management efforts.
• The NWIFC employs approximately 67 full-time
  staff members to provide services to member
  tribes.

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• NWIFC Member Tribes Are
• Lummi Squaxin Island
• Makah Skokomish
• Nooksack Quileute
• Swinomish Suquamish
• Upper Skagit Port Gamble SKlallam
• Sauk-Suiattle Jamestown SKlallam
• Stillaguamish Lower Elwha Klallam
• Tulalip Muckleshoot
• Puyallup Nisqually
• Quinault Hoh

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The Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Inventory and
Assessment Program
S S H I A P
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Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Inventory and
Assessment Program

• What is SSHIAP?
• Provides GIS technical support
• Provides a central/regional information
  coordination function
• More than GIS!

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Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Inventory and
Assessment Program

• Workplan
• Information Management System development
• Development of Arc GIS data management system -
  AquaScape
• Puget Sound Washington Coast Geomorphic
  Nearshore Mapping

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Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Inventory and
Assessment Program

• Workplan
• EPA Exchange Network Grant
• Water Quality Data Exchange
• Juvenile Salmon Migrant Data Exchange
• Provide data analysis assistance for the Tribes
  culvert case, FFR-CWA Assurances, exempt wells,
  etc

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Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Inventory and
Assessment Program

• Water Quality Exchange Network Node
• Deployment of the ambient Water Quality Exchange
  data flow
• Intent to provide information to the EPA through
  the Central Data Exchange

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Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Inventory and
Assessment Program

• Creating a Collaborative Environmental Data
  Exchange Network for Puget Sound
• Partners PSP, WDOE, WDFW, RCO NWIFC, NMFS
• Creation of a Juvenile Salmon Migrant Information
• Additional flow Restoration-Protection Project
  Information or Adult Salmon

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