Glossary

In progress!--CM 12/6/2024

See PDF pg 222 of YBTAP for extra acronyms ALSO an actual glossary of fish terminology!!!

Bridget Wood: Juvenile Salmonid and Small Fish Identification Aid adfg.alaska.gov/static/home/library/pdfs/habitat/adfg_hr_id_cards_v1.1.pdf

Organizations/Groups

YBFWRB: Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board

TAG: Technical Advisory Group

CC: Citizen Committee

LE: Lead Entity (There are 25 across WA. Ours includes the TAG, the CC, the LE Coordinator, and a grant administrator—the YBFWRB Board of Directors)

BTWG: Bull Trout Working Group

SWG: Steelhead Working Group (last time this group met was 2014 (?); to be reconvened asap to update Steelhead Recovery Plan)

SRFB: Salmon Recovery Funding Board (who runs the annual grant round for all LE’s across the state)

RCO: Recreation & Conservation Office (Lead Entities are contracted through this office. Elizabeth Butler works for RCO as our regional grant manager)

GSRO: Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office (partners with RCO)

NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (their fisheries dept helps fund our SRFB grants via the PCSRF)

PCSRF: Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (a source of grant funding; established by Congress to reverse the decline of West Coast salmon)

BPA: Bonneville Power Administration (federal hydropower marketing administration within the Dept of Energy; a source of grant funds)

BOR: Bureau of Reclamation (water management agency in the Western US; a source of grant funds)

BLM: Bureau of Land Management

USFS: United States Forest Service

USFWS: United States Fish & Wildlife Service

WDFW: Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

WRCD: Washington Resource Conservation & Development council

WWT: Washington Water Trust

NPCC: Northwest Power & Conservation Council (created following the 1980 Northwest Power Act to “inform and advance a regional vision for power and fish & wildlife in the Columbia Basin”) Sponsors:

Sponsors

CD: Conservation District

KCT: Kittitas Conservation Trust

MCF(EG): Mid-Columbia Fisheries (Enhancement Group)

TU: Trout Unlimited

YN: Yakama Nation

Grant Round Terms

RFP: Request for Proposal (to solicit grant applications)

PRISM: Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (nobody really refers to it as anything other than the acronym)

RP: SRFB State Review Panel

POC: Project of Concern (a rating the SRFB review panel can give projects following site tours; means the project is at high risk of not being approved to be considered for funding by its Lead Entity)

NMI: Needs More Information (a rating the SRFB review panel can give projects following site tours; might mean the project passes easily by supplying the requested additional information, or might not)

SARM: Salmon Recovery Model (a project scoring matrix developed by the TAG) Legislation/Plans:

Legislation/Plans

ESA: Endangered Species Act

YBIP: Yakima Basin Integrated Plan

YSBP: Yakima Sub-Basin Plan

BTAP: Bull Trout Action Plan

YSRP: Yakima Steelhead Recovery Plan

YTAHP: Yakima Tributary Access & Habitat Program

YKFP: Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project

YRBWEP: Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project (a study done by the BOR)

CCA: Climate Commitment Act (legislation passed in WA in 2023). Initiative 2117 (2024) aimed to repeal this act, but it did not pass.

Technical Terms

APE: Area of Potential Effects

cfs: Cubic Feet per Second

DPS: Distinct population segment > MPG: Major Population Group > Populations

ELJ: Engineered Log Jam

Entrainment: getting sucked through a dam/barrier such that a fish can't get back over

FMO: Feeding, migrating, overwintering

FS: Forest Service (also, Forest Service road)

Kelt:

LWD: Large Wood Debris

Mitigation: in Layman's Terms

MPG: Major Population Group

OHWM: Ordinary High-Water Mark

PIT tag: Passive Integrated Transponder tag (a tracking device implanted in fish to study their movements)

Redd: a spawning bed in the stream gravel bottom

Riprap:

RM: River Mile

RME: Research, monitoring, and evaluation

Rock barbs:

Rootwads:

Thalweg: the center of the mainstem of a river/the main flow path of a river

VSP: Voluntary Stewardship Program. Also: Viable Salmonid Population (not in current wide usage).

https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/00972

https://www.epa.gov/cwa-404/mitigation-banks-under-cwa-section-404

Foraging Migration Overwinter (FMO)

Wasting/mass wasting??

WRIA: Water Resource Inventory Area (fancy term for a sub-watershed; we have WA WRIA’s 37, 38, and 39)

Technical Resources

FPDSI: Fish Passage & Diversion Screening Inventory

SWIFD: State Wide Integrated Fish Distribution database—will tell you which fish live where

DART: Data Access & Retrieval Tool; UW’s database that includes tons of data on fish in the Columbia basin

Miscellaneous

Gap-to-Gap: The 10-mile stretch between Selah Gap and Union Gap