Bridging the Understanding Gap

Regulators, stakeholders, and conservationists often have conflicting perspectives on solutions to fish population and aquatic habitat issues. Cramer Fish Sciences combines the extensive experience of its staff with a core discipline in fisheries sciences to help bridge that understanding gap.

Most of our senior scientists have served one to three decades as fish biologists with state, federal, and tribal fisheries agencies. We have studied virtually all major salmonid and sturgeon populations in the Pacific Northwest and have gained exceptional insight and influence in the fisheries profession.

Cramer Fish Sciences brings a lot to the table when helping our clients solve fisheries challenges. Our areas of expertise include:

Regulatory Compliance ESA Section 7 and 10 FERC relicensing procedures Clean Water Act 401/404 Federal fish conservation acts State watershed planning State forest practices rules Aquatic resource permitting NEPA and state equivalents	Environmental Impact Assessments Hydropower Water development Forest practices Urban development Harbor development Mining operations Oil/gas development Linear facilities
Water Use Projects Fish passage strategies Water quality issues Flow management FERC relicensing ESA consultations Mitigation programs Migration monitoring	Habitat Restoration Watershed analyses Habitat restoration planning Stream channel reconstruction In-stream wood and boulders Spawning gravel augmentation Riparian forest management Effectiveness monitoring
Harvest Management Run size/harvest rate estimates Sustainable yield estimations Selectivity and latent mortality Mixed stock analysis Regulation strategies Harvest monitoring	Hatchery Effectiveness Hatchery/wild interactions Genetic risk assessments Contribution analysis Effectiveness strategies Master planning Monitoring programs
Fish Habitat Monitoring Habitat suitability measurements Stream temperature monitoring Stream channel/sediment surveys LWD and stream shade surveys Macroinvertebrate/diatoms Riparian condition surveys Water quality monitoring	Advanced Statistical Analysis Time series/trend analysis Univariate/multivariate statistics Nonparametric methods Bayesian statistics Cluster/ordination analysis Maximum likelihood estimators Data censoring techniques
Fish Population Monitoring Electrofishing Migrant traps Resistance board weirs Radio and acoustic tracking Tagging (PIT, CWT, telemetry) Underwater video/infrared Snorkeling/diving	Fish Population Modeling Viability and extinction risk Juvenile salmon habitat capacity Growth and bioenergetics Salmon stock-recruitment Water operations effects Harvest/hatchery effects Watershed/riparian effects