Fisheries Technician - AmeriCorps

• Location Conservation Legacy, Sitka, AK, 99835, United States
• Job Category Individual Placement, Ameri Corps
• Industry Fisheries, Ecology, Monitoring
• Employee Type Ameri Corps

• Name Cassie Sebas
• Email (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

Fisheries Technician – Ameri Corps

Stewards Individual Placements

Sitka Tribe of Alaska, 204 Siginaka Way, Sitka, Alaska, 99835

Preference given to applicants who submit applications by 01/04/2027. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the posting will be closed when filled.

• Ideal
  
  Start Date:
  
  March 1, 2027
• End Date:
  September 27, 2027
• Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 900 hour, 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 Sitka Tribe of Alaska, who is seeking a Fisheries Technician.

The Fisheries Technician is an Ameri Corps position based in Sitka Alaska, a small close-knit community on Baranof Island. The Technician will serve within Sitka Tribe’s Resource Protection Department to implement fisheries research and monitor projects that support Tribal access to culturally important resources and Haa ?usteeyí (“our way of life”).

Focusing primarily on sockeye salmon research and enumeration, the Technician will collaborate closely with Sitka Tribe’s Fisheries Biologist and U.S. Forest Service staff to implement and staff Redoubt Lake weir, implement cutting‑edge computer vision systems, conduct limnological sampling, assist in the construction and installation of video chutes and solar power systems, harvest and distribute traditional foods, and process samples and data.

Redoubt Lake is the first site in Alaska to incorporate computer vision technology to automate salmon identification and enumeration for in‑season monitoring and management of salmon. Data collected by this team is critical for management of Southeast Alaska’s largest subsistence sockeye salmon harvest population.

• Conduct projects safely in all weather conditions in a remote field environment in brown bear habitat.
• Catalog salmonids by species and collect age, sex, and length data.
• Collect environmental data and conduct limnological sampling.
• Build, maintain, and break down picket weir, field camp, and project equipment, such as skiffs, outboard motors, and solar panel arrays.
• Coordinate and collaborate with multidisciplinary interagency teams.
• Participate in small teams at remote field camps for up to 10 consecutive days.
• Safely operate skiffs up to 16’ in length in nearshore waters.
• Record, check, and report data to Fisheries Biologist and U.S. Forest Service daily.
• Travel by boat and float plane.
• Assist with Sitka Tribe of Alaska fisheries projects.
• Assist in Traditional Foods Program harvest and distribution.
• Assist with routine lab work, such as processing shellfish samples.

• Must be a member of a Federally recognized Indian Tribe, Band, or Village;
  Alaska Native; or meet one of the following descriptions:
• Persons who possess at least one-half degree Indian blood derived from Tribes Indigenous to the United States.
• Descendants of Members of Federally recognized Indian Tribes,…