The Finfish Program is tasked with
the management of all aspects of the finfish resource for the Skokomish Tribe.
The foundation of good management is having complete and accurate data. The
Finfish program has been using electronic forms for data collection for over 16
years. It started with handheld Tribble units used to collect spawning ground
data from Salmonids. Due to technology improvements and other driving factors,
it has involved in the now use of ESRI Survey 123 to collect spawning ground
data for Salmonids, Commercial Sampling Code and Wire Sampling information and
Skokomish Estuary Juvenile Salmonid Sampling.
With the advent of using Survey
123 we took to using R to manage data and transform it into formats that were
required for co-managers, contract deliverables and general data requests. The
R scripts we developed eventually evolved into separate R shiny applications to
manage each project/set of data. We eventually developed scripts to pull our
geospatial enabled survey data directly into R using ESRI API’s and
authentication protocols without using the ArcGIS binding package and download
survey photos directly onto a computer without the use of the existing Python
scripts.
Taking our R shiny applications a
step further we decided to create one Finfish shiny application “to rule them
all”. Currently our R shiny application combines all data sets into a single
application that can readily get near real time formatted data for adaptive
management decisions, download weekly deliverables for customized data
requests. It also utilizes Quarto to generate our annual spawning ground report
and contains management tools used to generate Salmonids escapements for the
co-managers. As with any application, we continually adapt our Finfish Shiny
application to meet the changing needs of managing the Finfish resources for
the Skokomish Tribe.
For
more information visit:
https://www.tribalexchangenetwork.org/tenc
