Funding Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Funding Opportunity No: POA57AF-CESU-18-07
CFDA No: 12.632
Program Title: Legacy Resource Management Program, Sikes Act 670c-1
Issue Date: 22 August 2018
Application Due Date: 21 September 2018
Overview: POA57AF-CESU 18-07 INRMP MARINE SURVEYS WAKE ISLAND AIRFIELD, USA.
1. Overview of Marine Surveys of Wake Island.
2. Work Plan.
3. Annual Recreational Fishery Surveys.
4. Bumphead Parrotfish Surveys.
5. Sea Turtle Surveys.
6. Outreach Supply.
7. Educational Event.
8. Recreational Fisheries Report.
9. Bumphead Parrotfish Report
10. Sea Turtle Survey Report
See Scope of Work for detailed information
Estimated Total Funding: $775,000
Eligible Applicants – CESU Hawaii, N&W Alaska, PNW, CA, and Colorado Plateau.
Overview of Marine Surveys of Wake Island
The Cooperator shall conduct a series of surveys at WIA that focus on fish species surrounding the atoll as well as sea turtles. The three survey types include: annual recreational fishery surveys, Bumphead parrotfish surveys, and sea turtle surveys. The recreational fisheries surveys shall utilize the methodologies of predecessor site visits in order to ensure data are comparable across years. The fisheries surveys shall focus on not only commonly harvested sport fish targets, but also non-target species which are incidentally caught. In 2018, USAF funding was issued to the Bishop Museum to conduct the atoll’s first year of data collection under the revised recreational fishing program, instituted under the 2017 INRMP. The methods used by the Bishop Museum as described in Reference A shall be replicated by the
Cooperator to the greatest extent for the recreational fisheries surveys.
There is interest from the command to continue tracking the atolls bumphead parrotfish populations in surrounding waters, given the rare nature of the species and its sensitivity to human impacts elsewhere in its range. In 2011, population estimates were documented based on surveys of the surrounding waters of the atoll. The resulting publication, Reference B, shall be used by the Cooperator to replicate the survey methods and approach for this specific species survey, so as to compare results across years. The bumphead parrotfish surveys will be specific to this species and shall result in a population estimate or index that can be tracked in future years.
The third and final survey type is a sea turtle survey. The command would like more information about the species of turtle, the sex ratio, and the age classes of sea turtles using
Wake Island. In addition, further detail on how long they reside in waters near wake and where they venture to prior or before arriving to Wake Island is also of interest. This data can be captured using satellite tag technology. Sea turtle data yielded from this project shall be used by the USAF in future years for impact analysis exercises in alignment with the National
Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act.
POINTS OF CONTACT
The USAF Technical POC is Joel Helm.
Routine correspondence should be via email when appropriate.
Joel Helm
U.S. Air Force 611 CES/CEIE
10471 20th Street Suite 302
JBER, AK 99506-2201
Phone: 907-552-5230
Email: joel.helm.1@us.af.mil
The POC for USACE Project Management is Charis Cooper.
Cooperative Agreement questions should be addressed to the Grants Officer, Olen Northern.
Correspondence should be addressed as follows:
Charis Cooper
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Environmental &Special Projects Branch
ATTN: CEPOA-EC-EE
P.O. Box 6898
JBER, AK 99506-0898
Office: (907) 753-5692
Email: charis.a.cooper@usace.army.mil
Olen Northern
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Contracting Division
ATTN: CEPOA-CT
P.O. Box 6898
JBER, AK 99506-0898
Phone: 907-753-2525
Email: Olen.R.Northern@usace.army.mil
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