Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR)
The IFR office overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay.
P.O. Box 29196
San Francisco, CA 94129-0196
(415) 561-FISH (3474)
(415) 561-KING (5464) (fax)
IFR Webpage
Mentors:
Zeke Grader, Executive Director
Mentor Biography
Sara Randall, Project Director
Mentor Biography
Current Members:
Natalie Galatzer
Member Biography
Harmony Gugino
Member Biography
Site Description:
The Institute For Fisheries Resources(IFR) is a 501(c)3 organization. IFR’s mission is to protect and restore fish populations and the human economies that depend on them. By establishing alliances among fishing men and women, government agencies, and concerned citizens, IFR unites resource stakeholders, protects fish populations, and restores aquatic habitats. IFR fosters alliances between commercial fishing groups, conservation organizations, government agencies, and scientists. IFR seeks to advance its advocacy work on common resource protection and conservation issues. Through these cooperative efforts, we are helping to correct dangerous land use policies and practices, protect watersheds along the United States' Pacific Coast, and maintain biologically healthy ecosystems. IFR is dedicated to organizing and activating the commercial fishing community as a voice for protection of this nations' irreplaceable natural resources, including the protection of wetlands, clean water, and forest ecosystems. We also seek to educate the community at large concerning the protection of our biological resources. Toward this end, IFR staff prepare and publish a weekly newsletter that reports on impending legislation, upcoming events, and calls to action. IFR is committed to ensuring that environmental practices and policies designed to protect inland forests, rivers, wetlands, estuarine, and coastal ecosystems are adopted and properly implemented. For this reason, IFR is an active leader in several restoration efforts, including programs affecting Butte Creek, the Klamath River Basin, and the San Francisco Bay.
The Watershed Stewards Project (WSP) members at this site get to work on a variety of watershed and ocean policy related work. At IFR, the WSP member contributes to the weekly online newsletter, Sublegals. Sublegals is made up of condensed newsbriefs concerning water, watersheds, commercial fishing and the oceans. Members also teach the Real Science curriculum in the economically and ethnically diverse classrooms around San Francisco. The WSP member assists in creating outreach materials for IFR and WSP, and will attend various bay area outreach events and festivals throughout the year, including Oceanfest, the Salmon Festival, the Fisheries Forum, the Fishermen’s Swap Meet, various farmers markets, etc. The member participates in delta water right issues and dam deregulation projects by working to create awareness about how dams affect fish. In the past, WSP members have worked with the Russian River Coho Salmon Recovery Work Group (RRCSRWG) in the coordination of meetings, agendas and media events. The RRCSRWG raises and releases native Russian River coho back to their historic habitat.
A local fisherman giving schoolchildren a tour of his boat.
Time members spend on each of the following tasks at their site (WSP trainings and mandatory events not included in this breakdown):
Monitoring - 0%
Restoration - 5%
Field Surveys and Data Collection - 5%
Report Writing and Data Entry - 50%
Lab Work - 0%
Education - 20%
Outreach - 20%
Member comments:
"IFR is an amazing environment to become fully immersed in fishery, aquatic, and marine policy issues throughout California and the United States."
- Kristin Hunter-Thompson, year 13 member
Mentor comments:
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For a sample calendar of WSP member duties at this site, click HERE.
IFR staff.
