Job Title: Supervisory Fish Biologist (DEU)
Department: Department Of The Interior
Agency: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Job Announcement Number: R1-10-349733-LF

SALARY RANGE:
57,408.00 - 74,628.00 USD /year
OPEN PERIOD:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 to Wednesday, June 16, 2010
SERIES & GRADE:
GS-0482-11
POSITION INFORMATION:
Full TimeCareer/Career Conditional
PROMOTION POTENTIAL:
11
DUTY LOCATIONS:
1 vacancy - Neah Bay, WA
WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED:
United States Citizens

JOB SUMMARY:
Working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is more than a career. It is a commitment shared by more than 9,000 men and women representing a diverse range of professions, backgrounds, and specialties who are dedicated to conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats. From the Arctic Ocean to the South Pacific, from the Atlantic to the Caribbean, Service personnel are working hard to ensure future generations will be able to enjoy nature's beauty and bounty.

This position is located at the Makah National Fish Hatchery, in Neah Bay, Washington.

Incumbent serves as assistant manager of the Makah National Fish Hatchery (NFH) located near Neah Bay, Washington. The hatchery is charged with the propagation of Fall Chinook, coho and winter steelhead in support of Treaty Trust obligations, commercial and sport fisheries and conservation of Sooes River salmonid stocks.

Makah NFH is a salmon and steelhead trout facility, rearing fall Chinook, coho salmon, and winter steelhead trout for release into rivers on the Makah Indian Reservation. The hatchery also assists the Makah Tribe (Tribe) with the recovery of the ESA listed Lake Ozette sockeye salmon by providing a secure facility for isolated egg incubation and otolith thermal marking. Makah NFH was authorized on October 4, 1973 with facility construction beginning in 1976 and fish production operations being undertaken in 1981. The Hatchery was established with the primary goal of restoring declining salmon and steelhead trout fisheries on the Makah Reservation and to provide greater fishing opportunities in the region. The fish production program at the Hatchery is guided by the current Hatchery Operation Plan, a business lease agreement and several cooperative agreements with the Tribe. Makah NFH produces approximately 2.7 million salmon and steelhead smolts weighing close to 100,000 pounds for release into the Sooes and Wa’atch Rivers located on the Makah Indian Reservation. Returning adults make a substantial contribution to tribal, U.S. and Canadian sport and commercial ocean harvests and support an important tribal commercial, ceremonial and subsistence, and non-member sport river fisheries. In addition, the Makah NFH supports the Makah Indian Nation’s recovery program for the endangered Lake Ozette sockeye salmon by providing a secure incubation facility for use from fertilization to egg eye-up and thermal marking of the otoliths.

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http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=88203557&JobTitle=Supervisory+Fish+Biologist+%28DEU%29&q=349733&where=&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y&x=128&y=11&AVSDM=2010-05-26+00%3a03%3a00