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

DNR: Department of Natural Resources

DOE: Department of Ecology

DOT: Department of Transportation

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 Woody Debris

Mitigation: in Layman's Terms

• https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/habitat-conservation/mitigation-banks-conservation-banks-and-lieu-fee-programs-west

• https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/00972
• https://www.epa.gov/cwa-404/mitigation-banks-under-cwa-section-404

MPG: Major Population Group

OHWM: Ordinary High-Water Mark

Phenotype: Any observable characteristic of an organism, such as its external appearance, development, biochemical or physiological properties, or behavior (as contrasted with Genotype)

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

Productivity: The average number of surviving offspring per parent. Used as an indicator of a population’s ability to sustain itself or its ability to rebound from low numbers.

Radio telemetry: Transmission of data from tags attached to an animal and transmit radio signals. The signals are read at either fixed receiving stations or by mobile tracking devices. Radio tags for fish are usually inserted into the stomach or surgically into the body cavity.

Recovery Unit (bull trout):
A USFWS term for one of the nested units delineated for recovery efforts. Biologically, recovery units are considered groupings of bull trout for which gene flow was historically or is currently possible. The Yakima Core Area is one of many core areas within the Middle Columbia recovery unit, and there are multiple recovery units within the Distinct Population Segment (DPS).

Redd: A cavity or “nest” dug by female bull trout and other salmonids in streambed gravels where females deposit and bury eggs fertilized by one or more males. Redds can be distinguished in the streambed gravel by a cleared depression and an associated mound of gravel directly downstream

Resident: Life history strategy in which the entire life cycle occurs in a water body, such as that of resident Ahtanum Creek bull trout, which occur in small headwater streams.

Salmonid: Fish of the family Salmonidae, including bull trout (and other trout species) salmon, chars, grayling, and whitefish. In general usage, the term most often refers to salmon, trout, and chars (subfamily Salmonidae).

Stochastic: Describes a natural event or process that is random or unpredictable. Examples include environmental conditions such as rainfall, runoff, and storms, or life-cycle events, such as survival or fecundity rates. species: Animals that are behaviorally, genetically, or reproductively isolated from similar groups of animals. subpopulation: Groups of local populations between which migration is presumed to occur. supplementation: The release and management of artificially propagated fish in streams with the intent to increase or establish naturally spawning fish populations while minimizing associated genetic and ecological risks.

Riprap: rocky material placed along shorelines, bridge foundations, steep slopes, and other shoreline structures to protect from scour and erosion

RM: River Mile

RME: Research, monitoring, and evaluation

Rock barb: (stream barbs?) a low rock sill structure angled upstream to decrease flow stresses on a bank. They are designed to redirect streamflow away from the near bank region.

Rootwads: A root wad is a bank stabilization and aquatic habitat improvement strategy that involves burying a dead tree into the streambank with the root system still attached. Benefits of installing root wads include bank stability, fish habitat and insect habitat

Sympatric: Occurring in the same geographic area but without interbreeding as with closely related but distinct species.

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

Threatened: Any species that is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range—as defined in the Endangered Species Act.

USGS: US Geological Survey

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

Wasting/mass wasting??

Watershed: Term applied to catchment area of a sloping landscape that collects precipitation and drains the resulting surface and groundwater.

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 (tells you where fish passage barriers are; not comprehensive)

SWIFD: State-Wide Integrated Fish Distribution database (tells 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