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