Fisheries Conservation Steward-AmeriCorps

• Job Category Individual Placement, Ameri Corps, BIA
• Industry Fish and Wildlife, Fisheries Conservation , Water Corps
• Employee Type Ameri Corps

• Phone (970) 382
  -1947
• Email (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

Fisheries Conservation Steward - Ameri Corps

Western Washington Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office; 500 Desmond Drive SE, Lacey Washington 98503

Preference given to applicants who submit applications by November 16, 2026 . Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

• Ideal
  
  Start Date:
  
  March 1, 2027
• End Date:
  Aug 27, 2027
• Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 900 hours, 26 weeks

Stewards Individual Placements (Stewards), a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with Ameri Corps service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants serve with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits to provide institutional capacity, develop community relationships, and support ecosystem health. Stewards partners with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to facilitate the Water Corps Program to provide opportunities to federally enrolled Tribal Members seeking to gain experience in the water resources field.

This Water Corps position will be hosted by the Western Washington Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office, who is seeking a Fisheries Conservation Steward.

The Fisheries Conservation Steward is an Ameri Corps position that will support aquatic biological field research, population monitoring, invasive species removal, habitat projects, fish hatchery rearing, and fish hatchery evaluation efforts. In addition to supporting the mission of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, this Fisheries Conservation Steward will gain a wealth of career building field, lab, and hatchery experience. They will also gain exposure to the multiple federal, state, local, and tribal governments as well as non-profit conservation partners we work with.

This position also includes local and regional (WA, OR, , and HI) career development training that will prepare the participant to find and compete for relevant employment opportunities beyond this experience.

The mission of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is to work with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. Our office oversees a large variety of fish and aquatic work in western Washington. This includes population monitoring projects, fish behavior studies, invasive species removal, habitat restoration, and hatchery evaluation.

Our work plays an important role in informing land and fisheries management decision making.

• Biological field sampling in aquatic environments, including but not limited to minnow trapping, electrofishing, hook & line (angling), screw trapping, and netting (seining, gill and/or tangle nets) in rivers, lakes, and/or saltwater shorelines.
• Fish identification and data collection (species, length, weight, scale samples, tag scans, genetics, etc.).
• Fish marking, tagging, and tracking (coded wire tags, PIT tags, external tags, and radio telemetry tagging and tracking).
• Invertebrate and limnology sampling.
• eDNA water sampling.
• Abiotic data collection such as river substrate sampling, water salinity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, and temperature.
• Collecting and entering field data into a database. Database management.
• Laboratory processing and data collection, including fish stomach sample identification and sediment sample analysis.
• Fish Hatchery Evaluation: mass marking of juveniles, tag retention sampling, tag scans on adults, biological sampling of tagged adults, and tag extractions (lab) and linking tag number to biological sampling data.
• Supplemental Hatchery Support: fish rearing, spawning, and transfers. Raceway (tank) maintenance, water quality monitoring, fish health monitoring, and fish per pound size and growth tracking measurements.
• Supplemental support for education and outreach programming such as events and school activities such as Salmon in the Classroom. This includes tribal specific outreach programming.
• Supporting upkeep of sampling instrumentation used for core position functions.
• Conducting projects in and around rivers, lakes, and salt water. This includes wading and potentially motorized and/or human powered watercrafts.

• Must be a member of a Federally recognized Indian Tribe, Band, or…