Fishery Biologist 1 - (La Jolla, CA)

Ocean Associates, Inc. (OAI) is seeking a Fishery Biologist one to provide support to the NOAA Fisheries Jones Beach Sampling Station in Westport, Oregon. OAI supplies personnel support services on contract to government and industry clients for marine fisheries and protected species. This is a seasonal position participating in a Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) survival study. Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags are used to estimate dam to dam (reach) and system-wide survival for juvenile salmonids in the Columbia River Basin. Tagged fish are released throughout the basin and tracked during their outmigration. To calculate survival to Bonneville Dam, the last dam encountered, a subset of fish must be detected downstream. To do this, we use a pair-trawl net with the cod-end removed and replaced with a pass-through PIT Antenna.