Program Authorization: La. Const. Article IX, Sec. 7
The mission of the Fisheries Program is to conserve and protect Louisiana’s renewable aquatic resources for present and future generations. The program goals are 1) to maintain a healthy fishery and 2) to ensure stakeholder satisfaction. This program has only one activity, Fisheries.
OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Unless otherwise indicated, all objectives are to be accomplished during or by the end of FY 1999-2000. Performance indicators are made up of two parts: name and value. The indicator name describes what is being measured. The indicator value is the numeric value or level achieved within a given measurement period. For budgeting purposes, performance indicator values are shown for the prior fiscal year, the current fiscal year, and alternative funding scenarios (continuation budget level and Executive Budget recommendation level) for the ensuing fiscal year (the fiscal year of the budget document).
RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR THE PROGRAM
The Fisheries Program is funded with State General Fund, Interagency Transfer of funds from the Department of Natural Resources for the Caernarvon and Davis Pond Projects; statutory dedications from the Oil Spill Contingency Fund, the Conservation Fund, the Artificial Reef Fund and the Oyster Sanitation Fund (Per R.S.39:32B.(8), see table below for a listing of expenditures out of each statutory dedicated fund). Federal grants are received from the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act, EPA, Department of Commerce National Marine Service, Dire Emergency, the Department of Interior - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.
ANALYSIS OF RECOMMENDATION
The total means of financing for this program is recommended at 114.3% of the existing operating budget. It represents 75.6% of the total request ($20,351,568) for this program. The adjustments in this program include: non-recurring carry-forward adjustments for expenditures that could not be liquidated prior to June 30,1998 -$979,297); non-recurring adjustment for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Water Quality study -$76,923; funding for Dependent Fish Sampling $173,542; funding for Commercial Customer Survey $40,000; funding for Recreational Customer Survey $40,000; funding for Oyster Cultch study $62,300; funding for the Atchafalaya Basin Program, including nine (9) positions $1,143,681; $799,895 of these funds are transferred from the Department of Natural Resources and is matched with $343,786 of Conservation Funds for the Atchafalaya Basin Program. Also included is a funding increase for Aquatic Weed Eradication $1,000,000.
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Artificial Reef Program - properly site and position reef materials and generate maps for public information |
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OTHER CHARGES
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$257,057 |
LSU Cooperative Agreement - information on largemouth bass stocks, using electrophoresis. |
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$21,000 |
LSU Cooperative Fish Disease Project |
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$8,000 |
Cooperative Fish Disease and Parasite Study |
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$40,000 |
Fish Population Recovery Monitoring Contracts assigned to LSU, Nicholls, State University and USL to perform creel surveys in the areas impacted by Hurricane Andrew. |
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$20,000 |
U.S. Fish Production Drug Development Program |
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$11,600 |
Estuarine and Marine Mercury Sampling and Anglers Consumption Surveys |
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$50,000 |
Finfish studies via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
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$15,000 |
Use of LUMCON vessel for Environmental Perturbations project |
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$94,084 |
Research by LSU Coastal Fisheries Institute |
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$55,000 |
Use of LUMCON vessel in SEAMAP cruises |
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$79,000 |
U.S. Geological Survey to maintain constant recorder meters |
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$50,000 |
Development of the G-WIS data base |
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$15,000 |
Dependent Fish Sampling |
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$40,000 |
Commercial Customer Survey |
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$40,000 |
Recreational Customer Survey |
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$62,300 |
Oyster Cultch Restoration Study |
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$118,445 |
Miscellaneous Fisheries services |
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$527,562 |
Atchafalaya Basin Plan |
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$1,000,000 |
Aquatic Weed Eradication program |
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$497,700 |
Underwater Obstruction program with the Department of Natural Resources |
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ACQUISITIONS AND MAJOR REPAIRS
