Spatial Data
SEAKFHP is working to create and maintain a data repository for our partners. Data has been collected from a variety of partners and sources and is available in our ArcGIS online account.
SEAKFHP is currently in production of a data hub to showcase the most robust and up-to-date data sources available in our region. The hub can be found in our Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Data Portal.
Explore our resources tab for other regional data producers and archives.
If you would like to join our user group in ArcGIS online, contact our project associate Khrystl Brouillette at khrystl@sawcak.org for more information.
Decision Support Tools
SEAKFHP aims to create robust data applications to allow our partners to discover and use regional data in their decision making processes. By supporting accessibility of spatial data through intuitive applications, our partners can utilize data efficiently to make important decisions on fish habitat across our region.
WESPAK
SEAKFHP has revitalized WESPAK, an application to help prioritize wetland restoration in Southeast Alaska. It is specifically designed to aid in filling out an office form before heading into the field for ground surveys in the prioritization and planning process.
WESPAK combines a variety of layers that interact with wetland function, like anadromous waters and land cover, and includes a variety of infrastructure layers, like roads and mariculture locations.
For a full list of layers, check out the app on ArcGIS online.
Southeast Alaska Fish Pass
Southeast Alaska’s waters support some of the most robust populations of anadromous fish in the world. Have you ever wondered how many salmon streams you drive over just on your way to work?
Urbanization often times presents a large obstacle to migrating fish. As more roads are built, more streams are diverted or segmented, causing many of our salmon supporting streams to be impassable.
To mitigate this, fish passage projects across the region create corridors for fish to pass under roads. These projects allow development to occur while also maintaining our high-value salmon streams.
Check out our google map of fish passage locations to see how many you encounter daily!
Fish passage is critically important to maintaining healthy fish populations. Determining locations of new fish passage locations require a lot of information about development plans, locations of anadromous streams, area usage, and much more.
We support our partners in prioritizing these decisions and are in the process of creating a Fish Passage Application. Similar to the google map shown above and WESPAK, this application combines related layers when considering fish passage projects, such as current locations of fish passage, roads, anadromous waters, and land ownership. Fish data and more are being added as it becomes available.