Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP)

The purpose of the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) is to provide a forum for coordinating state, federal, and tribal aquatic habitat and salmonid monitoring programs. PNAMP partners strive to improve communication, sharing of resources and data, and work towards compatible monitoring efforts that will ultimately provide increased scientific credibility, cost-effective use of limited funds and greater accountability to stakeholders. PNAMP provides leadership through the development and the advancement of recommendations and agency level agreements that are considered for adoption by the participating agencies.

PNAMP has adopted the following goals:

• Improve communication between monitoring programs across state, tribal, and federal organizations.
• Improve scientific information needed to inform resource policy and management questions and decisions.
• Seek efficiencies and cost-effectiveness across monitoring programs through compatible and cooperative monitoring efforts.
• Promote science-based credibility of monitoring and assessment efforts.
• Share resources and information between monitoring programs across state, tribal, and federal organizations.

In addition to supporting a forum for Steering Committee interaction, PNAMP supports standing and ad hoc working groups for key elements of monitoring, with emphasis on watershed condition monitoring, action effectiveness monitoring, fish population monitoring, estuary monitoring, and data management. PNAMP has adopted a Charter to formalize the agreement among federal, state, and tribal entities to participate in PNAMP and support coordination of monitoring programs. PNAMP has also developed a coordination plan to facilitate coordination of aquatic monitoring efforts in the Pacific Northwest titled, "Strategy for Coordinating Monitoring of Aquatic Environments in the Pacific Northwest".