Check out the cool timelapse video of Pederson Creek’s west fork receiving a fish-friendly makeover. Two undersized culverts were replaced with a larger 6’X8’X52′ embedded culvert designed to retain natural stream function and fish passage at the road-stream crossing. Partners: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition. Survey and Design: DOWL. Construction: Howell Construction. Species present in creek: Dolly Varden Char and Coho, Pink, Chum Salmon. Filmed May 11-16, 2016 using Brinno Construction camera.
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2015 AFS Fish Film Festival – August 18-20, 2015 Portland, Oregon
America’s Fish and Fisheries – Shared through the Camera Lens – A 2015 AFS Fish Film Festival
Over 60 short films will be featured during the first ever AFS Fish Film Festival. America’s Fish and Fisheries – Shared through the Camera Lens – A 2015 AFS Film Festival showcases films that focus on the connections between people, fish and fisheries, the unique life cycles and habitat needs of different species, and how resource practitioners and ordinary people are helping conserve fish and their habitats across the nation. The films are from a variety of perspectives—including commercial and sport fishermen, subsistence users, researchers and managers, volunteers, landowners, and even fish themselves.
Films will be shown during the conference on Tuesday, August 18 –Thursday, August 20th. Films will be grouped into themes covering general conservation topics, habitat protection and restoration, fisheries enhancement, sport fishing, fisheries management, and fisheries research and education.
This festival offers a new way to share and understand the work and craft of AFS members and other fisheries professionals and stakeholders. It will provide an exciting vantage point to view successes and challenges in fisheries conservation, and most importantly grow appreciation for and awareness of our nation’s fisheries and the many ways in which we’re connected to fish and all the goods and services they provide.
The festival is hosted by the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership (www.seakfhp.org), Western Native Trout Initiative (www.westernnativetrout.org), Sitka Conservation Society/ Sustainable Southeast Partnership (www.sitkawild.org/www.sustainablesoutheast.net) and The Salmon Project (www.salmonproject.org).
Tuesday, August 18, 2015: 8:00 AM-5:20 PM – click here for day 1 schedule
Wednesday, August 19, 2015: 8:00 AM-5:20 PM – day 2 schedule
Thursday, August 20, 2015: 8:00 AM – 5:20 PM – day 3 schedule
For full conference information, click here.
You can find the film festival program here.
Subsistence Fishing in Southeast Alaska
Subsistence in Southeast Alaska: The Tongass National Forest Services Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program
Although we often associate our National Forests with trees and silviculturalists, BY FAR, the most valuable resource that the Tongass National Forest provides is in the production of all 5 species of wild Pacific salmon. Managing salmon habitat and the fish populations within the forest is one of the key roles of National Forest Service staff in Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is the largest National Forest in the United States. Its 17 million acres is home to 32 communities that use and very much depend on the resources that this forest provides. On this National Forest, fisheries and watershed staff are probably the most critical positions on the entire Forest and are responsible for the keystone species in the temperate rainforest ecosystem—Salmon–a $1 Billion per year commercial fishery that serves up delicious salmon to people around the nation and the world, not to mention subsistence harvests that feed thousands of rural community members in Alaska. These staff also carry the legacy of thousands of years of sustainable management on their shoulders.
Like nothing else, salmon have shaped the cultures and the lifestyle of the peoples and communities of Southeast Alaska. The Tlingit and Haida people who have called the Tongass home for thousands of years, have learned and adapted to the natural cycles of salmon. Deeply held cultural beliefs have formed unique practices for “taking care of” and ensuring the continuance of salmon runs. As documented by Anthropologist Thomas Thornton in his book, Being and Place Among the Tlingit, “the head’s of localized clan house groups, known as yitsati, keeper of the house, were charged with coordinating the harvest and management of resource areas” like the sockeye salmon streams and other important salmon runs.
The staff of the Fisheries and Watershed program has integrated Alaska Native organizations, individuals, and beliefs into salmon and fisheries management programs on the Tongass and have hired talented Alaska Native individuals as staff in the USDA National Forest Service. Through the efforts of the Fisheries and Watershed program and its staff, a variety of formal agreements, joint programs, and multi-party projects that manage and protect our valuable salmon resources have been developed. The programs on the Tongass are case-studies for the rest of the world where lands and resources are owned by the public while being managed through the collaborative efforts of professional resource managers in government agencies, local peoples with intimate place-based knowledge, and involve multi-party stakeholders who use and depend on the resource.
The Tongass is America’s Salmon Rainforest and the Forest Service’s Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program is a stellar example of how we manage a National Forest to produce and provide salmon for people across the entire country as well as the people who call this forest their home.
International Fly Fishing Film Festival
Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program is showing the International Fly Fishing Film Festival, an almost 2-hour long compilation of fly fishing film shorts, March 26th, 7pm at the Goldtown Nickelodeon theater in Juneau. Tickets are $15. TU has co-produced a movie about the Tongass called “The Last Salmon Forest” and it is the featured conservation film in this festival. Tickets are available at Juneau Fly Fishing Goods.
For more info, go to http://flyfilmfest.com/IF4/ or http://vimeo.com/if4 to see the trailers for movies appearing in the festival.
If you are interested in getting tickets you can contact Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
By Email: info@
Phone : (907)-586-1550
Fax : (907)-586-3734
Website: http://www.