Evaluation of IEP Gear Efficiency and Smelt Distributions

This funding announcement is a Notice of Intent to Award (NOI): PLEASE DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. Federal regulations require that all funding opportunities be posted on Grants.gov. This posting is intended to comply with those regulations. This is a single source opportunity. Purpose: 1) to provide estimates of gear efficiencies for delta smelt survey data for calculating absolute delta smelt abundances over particular intervals, and; 2) to support models of smelt population dynamics using integrated data (including gear efficiency estimates) from several of the existing Interagency Ecological Program (IEP) surveys.