Salmonid Names
Project Background:
There is a need to standardize species names to support coordination of environmental resource information management. Management of information associated with salmonid species from the “Salmonidae” family of species classifications needs further standardization across the West Coast of the United States to support Federal management of species listed protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) or the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) and state and tribal management of fishery and hatchery management. To support regional coordination an effort to standardize nomenclature has been undertaken by NOAA Fisheries, Tribal entities, and state fishery management agencies.
Objectives
1. Standardize ESU names in order to make data exchange and data aggregation as easy as possible (minimize the cost incurred by having to create data mappings/crosswalks).
2. Standardize the display of ESU names (on screen, in pick-lists, in reports, in emails, etc.) in order to facilitate communication across agencies and organizations, and to get name display logic out of various applications and centralized in one place.
3. Agree to ownership of fish name data names and method of update information
Related Documents:
Salmonid Names White Paper - 10/2009 Draft
For more information contact: Russell Scranton (rwscranton@bpa.gov)