Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Benefits Overview

Supervise Idaho’s fish-marking program, including automated fin-clipping, coded-wire tagging, and PIT tagging operations across nine hatcheries. Maintain trailers, equipment, and government vehicles; schedule crews; arrange travel; hire and evaluate employees; approve time and expenses; manage supplies; and oversee data quality control, electronic recordkeeping, and annual reporting. The role requires extensive seasonal travel, fishery biology expertise, physical fieldwork, trailer towing, swimming, and work in laboratories and challenging outdoor environments.

Lead and mentor a small analytical team; provide statistical and modeling support for the Comparative Survival Study (CSS); develop and run statistical analyses of salmon and steelhead survival relative to environmental and hydrosystem variables; coordinate CSS deliverables and reports; communicate results to state, tribal, and federal fishery managers; advise on study design and data handling.