Deadline for written questions: 5.19.2017
Deadline for submissions: 6.9.2017

The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) has a requirement for a trawl vessel and crew to conduct studies in 2017 to evaluate the performance of trawl gear being utilized in Alaskan fisheries and fish behavior in those nets. The base charter will consist of 10 charter days, with an option for the PSMFC to extend the contract for up to 10 additional charter days and for one-year option periods (2018 and 2019).

The purpose of this research is to better understand and determine mitigation measures for bycatch, bycatch mortality, and contact of trawl gear with the seafloor. Primary research goals for the charter trips will focus on, but are not limited to (1) increasing salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) escapement rates for commercial fishing gear; evaluating the dynamics of the pelagic trawl gear used to capture walleye Pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, hereaft.er, “pollock”); and determining optimal ways to monitor fish behavior in the trawl net.

Posted: 5.1.2017

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Deadline for written questions: 1.20.2017
Deadline for submissions: 2.3.2017

PMEP, a recognized Fish Habitat Partnership (FHP) under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP), is seeking a half -time coordinator/staffer to work with the PMEP Board and its committees to advance and further its mission and goals.

PMEP’s mission is to protect, enhance, and restore ecological processes and habitats to sustain healthy native fish communities and support sustainable human uses that depend on healthy fish populations. See http://www.pacificfishhabitat.org/ for information on PMEP’s work and publications

Its strategic framework recognizes, as a current priority, the importance of estuary habitat to the production of juvenile fish. It works with partners to increase habitat quantity, quality and connectivity for juvenile fish. It also works to further the understanding of habitat needs of juvenile fish in nearshore and estuary environments see http://pmep.businesscatalyst.com/.

Posted: 1.6.2017

RFP Q&A

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Deadline for written questions: 9.9.2016
Deadline for submissions: 9.28.2016

The first objective of the proposed project is to (i) develop a SAM for each of the six BCAs and (ii) develop a
multi-regional SAM (MRSAM) for each of the six BCAs. Five regions will be specified in each of the six
MRSAMs: a BCA in SW, rest of SW (RSW), rest of Alaska (RAK), West Coast (WC), and rest of US (RUS). The
second objective is to develop single-region and multi-regional economic models including SAM models and
computable general equilibrium (CGE) models using the SAMs and MRSAMs. In developing the SAMs/
MRSAMs, the contractor will need to combine non-seafood data from IMPLAN with seafood industries’
data from the surveys and interviews recently completed. Results from these models will be useful for
fishery managers and others who are interested in understanding the economic impacts of fishery
management actions or exogenous shocks (such as climate change) on fishing dependent communities in
SW region and other regions.

Posted: 8.26.2016

RFC BCA-level Regional Economic Models Q&A

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Deadline for written questions: 9.12.2016
Deadline for submissions: 10.7.2016

PSMFC is seeking to subcontract with an information technology (IT) company to provide support in the following key areas:

 * maintain and develop secure online data collection web application using Microsoft .NET and supporting development tools;

 * maintain and develop XML and relational database schemas and scripted database management procedures in Oracle, monitor automated ETL processes, and conduct routine data process QA/QC audit procedures;

 * provide ongoing technical support to PSMFC during periods of active user access to web application to ensure that application remains operational and data integrity is maintained, and address critical technical issues rapidly and efficiently

Posted: 8.22.2016

RFP Deadline changed to 10.7.2016

RFP EDR Web Form Q&A

EDR Architecture Specification

EDR Data Model

EDR Stage Data Model

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Deadline for written questions: 7.29.2016
Deadline for submissions: 8.15.2016

Development of an Integrated Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan for the Klamath Basin.

There is a widely recognized need for a transparent, basin-wide, science-driven approach to fish restoration in the Klamath Basin that integrates needs of listed suckers, Bull Trout, and Coho Salmon with those of tribal and public trust species, such as spring and fall Chinook Salmon, Steelhead, lamprey, and sturgeon.

There is a need to develop an integrated Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan for the Klamath Basin. The Final Plan will. This Plan should also be consistent with NRC’s 2008 recommendation’s that Klamath Basin stakeholders work towards “connecting science and decision making” and employ “conceptual and simulation models” towards that end in an “adaptive management” approach on a “Basin scale.”

Posted: 7.15.2016

RFP Klamath Restoration Q&A

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Deadline for written questions: 4.25.2016
Deadline for submissions: 5.6.2016

The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) intends to charter one vessel to
participate in a project looking to test a sorting grid bycatch reduction device
designed to reduce Chinook salmon bycatch and evaluate its efficacy in the Pacific whiting
fishery. This project seeks to conduct 12 sample days (depending on vessel charter rate) between
01 June and 30 September 2016.

Posted: 4.4.2016

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Deadline for written questions: 4.15.2016
Deadline for submissions: 4.29.2016

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) intends to charter three vessels
to participate in a fisheries research project in 2016. The project will be in
collaboration with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
The Contractor agrees to furnish a vessel, crew, fuel, and bait necessary for sampling
between 20 and 125 fathoms in the Pacific Ocean for shelf rockfish. The Captain and
crew for all selected vessels will support the scientific party in the use of hook and
line fishing gear deployed via rods and reels. In an effort to standardize gear, NMFS
will supply the fishing gear that will be used during the survey.

Posted: 4.1.2016

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