Fishery Biologist - Chinook Monitoring Plan

Position: Fishery Biologist 2- Chinook Monitoring Plan
Minimum Experience|Minimum Experience* (231)* (162)* (75)### Fishery Biologist 2
- Chinook Monitoring Plan| Benefits | Full-Year Employees working at least 30 hours a week are covered by the Company's Life, LTD and AD&D plan. They are eligible to enroll in medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as short term disability, voluntary Life, LTD and AD&D insurance, flexi || Min. Experience | |Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission is recruiting candidates to fill the role of a Fishery Biologist 2 located in La Grange, California.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position with an anticipated start date of January 11th,  the first year, the biologist will lead the development of a comprehensive Spring-run Chinook Salmon life cycle monitoring plan, integrating field methods, analytical approaches, and adaptive management strategies to support basin-wide conservation goals. In the second year, the biologist will oversee a team of technicians to implement the monitoring plan, ensuring high-quality data collection and consistent field operations across diverse habitats.

This role is ideal for candidates who thrive in both outdoor fieldwork and data-driven scientific analysis, and who are motivated by meaningful environmental stewardship.
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* Essential Functions:

** Included in this band are professional positions that perform recurring assignments ranging from moderate difficulty where conventional or straight-forward biological concerns are encountered to complex assignments where specialized knowledge and demonstrated competence in advanced techniques are required. (The functions listed below are characteristic of the type and level of work associated with this group and pay band. They are not all-inclusive.

Individual positions may perform some or all, as well as other similar work.)At the lower end of the range, Fishery Biologists have a solid working knowledge of established scientific methods and techniques to perform recurring assignments of moderate difficulty. Methods and techniques are well established, apply to most situations, and do not require significant deviations. Resource planning reports generated by employees at this level involve conventional biological concerns.

Reports generated may be short-range management plans or portions of annual work plans. Lower range work examples include:
* Develop age composition structures, stock assessments, escapement totals, harvest levels, run reconstruction frameworks, and/or run forecasts for designated fish species and stock. Evaluate and direct sampling efforts or reporting practices to best meet data requirements. Write memoranda and reports necessary for transfer of information to the appropriate individuals, agencies, and organizations.
* Plan, design, schedule, and conduct fish catch and effort surveys for marine fisheries. Utilize existing general creel survey protocols and determine modifications that address specific marine fisheries conditions or special fisheries. Work with state, federal and regional fishery management councils to provide data on fisheries catch and effort and population trends as well as biology of marine fish species. Work with stock assessment biologists in relation to fisheries-specific data utilized in their stock assessments.

Assist with database presentations of the data collected. Prepare reports and presentations as requested. Provide expertise in improvements to the design of creel surveys

At the upper end of the range, the Fishery Biologist has specialized knowledge and demonstrated competence in advanced techniques of a complex area of fish biology sufficient to serve as a troubleshooter or specialist. The employee is competent to modify or adapt standard techniques, processes and…