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Killutsal Creek Rearing Pond Enhancement
The Lakelse is a prized recreational area both locally and regionally. Many small and large creeks enter the river along its 14-km length and fish values in these creeks are exceptionally high. As a result of forest harvesting, road build, and utility... -
Annual Compendium of Aquatic Rehabilitation Projects for the Watershed Restor...
B.C.'s Watershed Restoration Program (WRP) was implemented under the Province's Forest Renewal Plan in mid-1994 in response to a historical lack of mechanisms for ensuring rehabilitation of logging-impacted hill slopes, riparian areas, and streams. This is... -
Scully Creek Restoration Project 2013
This report discusses the Scully Creek Restoration Project, which involved improving access to quality spawning habitat by the removal of beaver dams and improved beaver management. Habitat complexity was improved through the creation of undercut banks and... -
Maxan Watershed Stream Habitat Restoration Works 1998/99
This report included Habitat Restoration Prescriptions for 12 sites on the Bulkley River, 2 sites on Foxy Creek, and 1 site on lower Maxan Creek. -
As-built Report of Aquatic Restoration and On-farm Cattle Management Improvem...
This report describes the aquatic habitat restoration construction completed at the lower Craker Road site and repairs completed to two instream structures within the upper Bulkley River originally constructed in 2016. The objectives of the project were to... -
As-built Report of Fish Passage Improvement Projects within the Wet'suwet'en ...
This report describes the fish passage restoration projects completed at three high-priority sites on the upper Bulkley River within Wet'suwet'en First Nation territory in 2017. Restoration works involved the construction of rock riffles to backwater... -
As-built Report of Aquatic Restoration and On-farm Cattle Management Improvem...
This report describes the as-built aquatic habitat restoration projects undertaken at four high-priority sites along the upper Bulkley River within Wet'suwet'en First Nation territory. The objectives of the project were to provide stable complex habitat for... -
SSAF State of the Value Report for Fish and Fish Habitat 2020 - Data
The Skeena Sustainability Assessment Forum’s (SSAF) State of the Value Report for Fish and Fish Habitat provides an overview of the current condition of fish and fish habitat in the SSAF study area and describes some of the key drivers behind these results.... -
Skeena Salmon Conservation Unit Report Cards for Sockeye
These habitat report cards were developed by the Pacific Salmon Foundation with technical support from ESSA Technologies. This project summarizes pressures on habitat used by Skeena salmon for migration, spawning, rearing and incubation, as well as their... -
Skeena Sockeye Lakes Hydroacoustic Surveys
Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) conducted hydroacoustic surveys at five sockeye rearing lakes in the Skeena Watershed. The main objectives of these surveys is to enumerate and sample the sockeye fry populations, and to estimate the species composition at... -
Skeena Salmon Conservation Units: Key Population and Habitat Points
Key points on population and habitat of Skeena salmon conservation units. -
Atlas of Sockeye High Value Habitat in the Skeena Watershed
The goal of the project was to compile and share existing data that identify habitat of sockeye salmon in the Skeena watershed. This in turn supports implementation of the Wild Salmon Policy. Ecotrust Canada carried out this work for the Habitat... -
Slamgeesh Lake Smolt Sampling Project
For the past ten years the Gitksan Watershed Authorities (GWA) have been collecting information on adult and juvenile sockeye and coho in Slamgeesh Lake in the northern part of the Skeena watershed. -
Habitat Improvement and Outplanting Possibilities - Upper Bulkley/ Morice Sys...
The NCD Habitat Unit, along with coho biologists from the Science Branch, conducted a juvenile coho sampling program on the Upper Bulkley/Morice River systems during the month of August from 1987 to 1990. This study furthers the understanding of coho... -
Assessment of Steelhead Enhancement Opportunities in the Morice River System
Juvenile salmonid populations in two tributary streams to the Morice River system, Owen and Lamprey Creeks, were assessed by the Fish Habitat Improvement Section in the fall of 1980. Objectives were directed at steelhead enhancement opportunities in the two... -
Assessment of the Limnological status and Productive Capacity of Babine Lake
The objectives of this study are determining Babine Lake's current trophic status, plankton community structure, and biomass, and to estimate its current rearing capacity for juvenile sockeye. Furthermore, the study also checks for detectable limnological... -
BWMT Project Reports
This dataset contains eighteen reports initiated by the Babine Watershed Monitoring Trust between 2003 and 2013. -
Residual Impacts on water quality and sockeye salmon fry habitat: Twenty year...
The Morrison River enters Babine Lake from the northwest. Morrison and Tahlo Lakes are important sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) nursery lakes that collectively host the second largest wild sockeye population in the Skeena. Downstream migration of juvenile... -
Mid Skeena Watershed Restoration Effectiveness Monitoring
In 2006, Gitksan Watershed Authorities was retained by the Pacific Salmon Commission to conduct an effectiveness monitoring in three Mid Skeena sub-basins: the Kispiox, Kitseguecla, and the Suskwa. This watershed restoration effectiveness monitoring... -
Fish Passage Assessment of Kispiox Forestry Road Stream Crossing
The purpose of this report is to present background information and survey results for fish passage assessments conducted at Kispiox forestry road stream crossings. The Kispiox fish passage assessment is part of a larger regional effort to improve fish...