The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund was established in Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 to address a coast-wide need to protect, restore and conserve Pacific Chinook, coho, chum, sockeye and pink salmon and steelhead, and their habitat. The Fund was designed to supplement existing state and tribal programs to foster development of federal-state-tribal- local partnerships in salmon recovery and conservation by providing grants for restoration of anadromous salmonids to eligible states and tribes.
The objective of the FY15 PCSRF is to supplement State and tribal programs for salmon restoration by allocating federal funding to projects and activities that provide demonstrable and measurable benefits to Pacific anadromous salmonids (Chinook, coho, chum, sockeye, and pink salmon and steelhead) and their habitat. In accordance with the Congressional authorization, these projects and activities are those "necessary for conservation of salmon and steelhead populations that are listed as threatened or endangered, or identified by a State as at-risk to be so-listed, for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing, or for conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat." [Public Law 113-235]
Priorities for FY PCSRF applications, in ranked order, are:
1. Projects that address factors limiting the productivity of Pacific anadromous salmonids listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), or those populations necessary for the exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing. Projects benefiting ESA-listed populations shall address the limiting factors and priority actions specified in approved, interim, or proposed Recovery Plans. Of particular emphasis are projects that include the restoration and protection of riparian habitats in identified priority areas. Projects benefiting populations important to the exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing may include efforts to restore or maintain such populations while limiting factors are being addressed. This priority also includes the development of engineering or project designs that are a necessary precursor to on-the-ground habitat improvement projects under this priority.
2. Effectiveness monitoring of habitat restoration actions at the watershed or larger scales for ESA-listed anadromous salmonids, status monitoring projects that directly contribute to population viability assessments for ESA-listed anadromous salmonids, or monitoring necessary for the exercise of tribal-treaty fishing rights or native-subsistence fishing on anadromous salmonids.
3. Other projects consistent with the Congressional authorization with demonstrated need for PCSRF funding. This includes projects that are necessary precursors to implementing activities under the above priorities including outreach, planning and coordination, assessment, research, and monitoring, or other engineering and design projects.
None available.
As program entities, the States and Tribal Commissions or Consortia will expend not more than 3% of the direct federal funds for administrative expenses.