This web page provides links to important resources and publications pertaining to fish passage work in Alaska in addition to resources made available as part of the 2015 Alaska Fish Passage Meeting hosted in Juneau – October 13-15, 2015.
General Resources for Fish Passage Work in Alaska:
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Fish Passage Improvement Program (Program details along with very comprehensive selection of resources including assessment and inventory information, publication resources, fish passage restoration project details, and much more!)
- USFS Aquatic Organisms Program (Program details along with large selection of publication resources, stream simulation guidance and other software and video resources)
2015 Alaska Fish Passage Meeting Resources and Presentations
General Meeting Resources:
- 2015 Alaska Fish Passage Meeting Agenda
- 2015 Alaska Fish Passage Meeting Opening Comments – Neil Stichert, USFWS
- May 2005 Fish Passage on the Tongass, Juneau – Meeting Notes
- January 2001 Fish Passage Workshop, Ketchikan – Meeting Notes
Fish Movement and Behavior Session:
General Information
- Fish Passage Studies in Alaska (bibliography and select resources hosted by ADF&G)
- Juvenile Coho Salmon Migration and Habitat Use in Meadow Creek, Southcentral Alaska, 2011 (Gerken and Sethi, 2013)
- Seasonal Movement of Dolly Varden and Cutthroat Trout with Respect to Stream Discharge in a Second-Order Stream in Southeast Alaska (Bryant et al., 2009)
- Seasonal Use of Small Tributary and Main-Stem Habitats by Juvenile Steelhead, Coho Salmon, and Dolly Varden in a Southeastern Alaska Drainage Basin (Bramblett et al., 2002)
- Migration of Anadromous Dolly Varden Charr In Southeastern Alaska – A Manager’s Nightmare (Armstrong, 1984)
- Distribution of Mature Sea-Run Cutthroat Trout Overwintering in Auke Lake and Lake Eva In Southeastern Alaska (Jones and Seifert, 1997)
- Abundance, Size, Habitat Utilization, and Intrastream Movement of Juvenile Coho Salmon in a Small Southeast Alaska Stream (Harding, 1993 Masters Thesis)
Presentations
- Overview of Fish Movement Studies in Alaska—John Hudson, USFWS
- Seasonal Movement of Dolly Varden and Cutthroat Trout with Respect to Stream Discharge—Buck Bryant, Douglas Island Aquatic Ecology
- Juvenile Coho Salmon distribution, movement, and habitat use in the Big Lake Drainage, AK—Suresh Sethi, USFWS
- How Culverts Impact Fish Movement—Gillian O’Doherty, ADFG
Fish Passage Assessment Session:
General Information
- ADF&G’s Fish Passage Inventory Database (FPID) ( including the Fish Resource Monitor interactive mapping application)
- DNR Road Condition Report for Kenai Peninsula
Presentations
- USFS Tongass National Forest Road Conditions Survey – Methods, Data Stewardship, and Status of TNF Assessment—Sheila Jacobson, USFS
- ADFG Fish Passage Inventory and Assessment Program- Methods, Data Stewardship, and Status of Statewide Assessment—Gillian O’Doherty, ADFG
- Alaska Department of Natural Resources Fish Passage Assessments on Forest Roads—Joel Nudelman, ADNR
Fish Passage Prioritization Session:
General Information
- Mat-Su Salmon Passage Improvement Plan (Mat-Su Salmon Habitat Partnership, 2011)
- Copper River Watershed Project – Culvert Mapping Tool
- Optimal Mitigation of Fish Passage Barriers in the Big Lake Watershed, AK – October 13, 2015 Presentation
Presentations
- ADFG Fish Passage Working Prioritizations—Gillian O’Doherty, ADFG
- A Review of the USFS Tongass National Forest Fish Passage Prioritization Approach—Integrating the Biological Significance Index and Management Recommendation Process at Various Scales—Julianne Thompson, USFS
- Big Lake Fish Passage Optimization Model—Suresh Sethi, USFWS
- Other Alaska Culvert Prioritization Efforts—Bill Rice, USFWS
Fish Passage Design Session:
General Information
- 2015 USFS Aquatic Organism Passage – Modified Culvert Inventory and Assessment Protocol Manual
- 2003 NATIONAL INVENTORY AND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE For Identifying Barriers to Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings (USFS SAN DIMAS TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER)
- Nathaniel Gillespie, Amy Unthank, Lauren Campbell, Paul Anderson, Robert Gubernick, Mark
Weinhold, Daniel Cenderelli, Brian Austin, Daniel McKinley, Susan Wells, Janice Rowan, Curt Orvis, Mark Hudy,
Alison Bowden, Amy Singler, Eileen Fretz, Jessica Levine & Richard Kirn (2014) Flood Effects on Road–Stream
Crossing Infrastructure: Economic and Ecological Benefits of Stream Simulation Designs, Fisheries, 39:2, 62-76, DOI:
10.1080/03632415.2013.874527 Link to this article - Daniel A. Cenderelli, Kim Clarkin, Robert A. Gubernick, and Mark Weinhold (2011) Stream Simulation for Aquatic Organism
Passage at Road–Stream Crossings,Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board,
No. 2203, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 36–45. DOI: 10.3141/2203-05
Link to this article
- Assessment of a Simplified Design Method for Aquatic Organism Passage on the Tongass National Forest (2015)
- HWA: Design for Fish Passage at Roadway-Stream Crossings: Synthesis Report
- FHWA HEC 26: Culvert Design for Aquatic Organism Passage
Presentations
- Evolution of Fish Passage Design and Guidelines – A Perspective from FWHA—an overview of the synthesis report, HEC 26, and practices in the PNW—Sven Leon, FHWA
- Stream Simulation to Hydraulic Design, Monitoring and Research results — Experience and Perspectives from 10 Years of Practice from the USFS AOP Program—Bob Gubernick, USFS
- Flood flows, Fish, and Debris Passage—Events of the Past 10 years in Southcentral Alaska and Other Examples—Bill Rice, USFWS
- Design Perspectives and Selected Projects from ADOT Northern Region—Jeff Stutzke, ADOT
- Minimally Engineered Fish Culvert Design—Parameters of this approach and performance to date—Tongass National Forest Engineering staff —Jason Powell, USFS
- Design details, bed design and construction; successes and lessons learned — Bill Rice, USFWS
Fish Passage Policy Session:
General Information
- Federal Laws and Regulations, State Statutes, etc… (comprehensive summary on the ADF&G Fish Passage Improvement Program website)
- Memorandum of Agreement between Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities for the Design, Permitting, and Construction of Culverts for Fish Passage
- Memorandum of Agreement between Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilitates for Implementing Safe Passage for Anadromous and Resident Fish While Maintaining and Improving State Transportation Infrastructure
- Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS); FEMA website ; 2015 Standards Document
- 2015 FEMA FFRMS Fact Sheet: Taking Action to Protect Communities and Reduce the Cost of Future Flood Disasters
- FEMA Fact Sheet: Climate Resilient Mitigation Activities Aquifer Storage and Recovery
- FEMA Fact Sheet: Climate Resilient Mitigation Activities Flood Diversion and Storage
- FEMA Fact Sheet: Climate Resilient Mitigation Activities Floodplain and Stream Restoration
- FEMA Fact Sheet: Climate Resilient Mitigation Activities Green Infrastructure Methods
- The Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs
Presentations
- Review of Clean Water Act and Aquatic Organism Passage—Linda Speerstra, ACOE, with Matthew LaCroix and Chris Meade, EPA
- Review of ADFG Statutory Authority—Megan Marie, ADFG
- ADFG-ADOT MOA for the Design, Permitting, and Construction of Culverts for Fish Passage—What it is and What it isn’t— Mike Daigneault, ADFG
- USFS-ADFG MOU and Title 16 Concurrence process for Fish Passage—Don Martin, USFS
- Emergence of Local Fish Passage Policy and Guidelines In Response to Floods in Southcentral Alaska—Bill Rice, USFWS
- FEMA- Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard through Executive Order 11988—How will this work in practice?—Mark Eberlein, Environmental Coordinator, FEMA and Susan Wells, USFWS
- DRAFT DOCUMENT – Alaska Fish Passage Authorities Matrix2015