Columbia River Coordinated Information System (CIS); Services and Features, 1993-1994 Annual Report.

Abstract

The goal of the Coordinated Information System (CIS) is to develop and provide an efficient system for obtaining and exchanging information needed to plan, monitor, and evaluate the protection, mitigation, and enhancement of anadromous salmonid populations in the Columbia River Basin. Since its inception, the development of CIS consisted of building a team of people representing agencies that manage fisheries and natural resources in the Columbia River Basin, and developing an administrative framework to maintain, enhance, and distribute anadromous salmonid information to public and private resource managers and researchers; assembling biological information on anadromous salmonids that could be used to evaluate system wide population dynamics; and developing the technology to deliver the information provided by CIS. This report summarizes the services that are now available to information users, and describes the administration through which services are delivered. Services and features that will be further developed during the 1994 fiscal year are also described.