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Salary- $34,368.00 – $44,412.00 Annually
Our Puget Sound Samplers,
- Conducts angler creel interviews, provides feedback about sampling protocols, and accurately records data into iPad application and on scale card paper form.
- Samples all Chinook and Coho salmon with electronic CWT detection devices.
- Classifies, sorts, and enumerates marked (adipose fin-clipped) and unmarked salmon by CWT status.
- Uses a knife to remove snouts from Chinook and Coho salmon with CWTs, which are used to assess stock specific impacts for fisheries modeling.
- Samples salmon catch to obtain stock composition (DNA taken with scissors), age structure (scales taken with forceps), legal and sub-legal proportions (length taken by measuring device), and hatchery and natural-origin proportions (mark-status).
- Distributes Salmon Trip Report (STR) forms and collects completed forms.
- Conducts error checks of sampling data.
- Provides sport fishing regulatory information to the public.
- Liaison to regional supervisor on fishery violations observed in the field.
- Provides written reports on violations and may be called to give testimony informally or in court.
- May be responsible for operation and maintenance of an agency vehicle.
- Responsible for maintaining sampling equipment in good working order.
- Completes “TotalTime” to submit timesheets and submits travel and purchasing information when needed.
- Completes state and agency required trainings and attends staff meetings. Other tasks as needed.