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Diel Vertical Movements and Feeding Habits of Underyearling Sockeye Salmon (O...
Sockeye underyearlings at Babine Lake. B.C. were observed to undergo diel vertical movement from July through to October 1967. This movement was more pronounced in August when the lake was most distinctly thermally stratified. The presence of a sharp... -
Upper Bulkley River and Toboggan Creek Overwintering Studies
An overwintering study was conducted over three winters (November 1998 to March 2001) in the Upper Bulkley and Toboggan Creek watersheds in north-central British Columbia. The study area includes the lower portion of the Upper Bulkley watershed upstream of... -
Upper Bulkley River Survey 1956
In August, 1955, a survey party inspected the Bulkley river from the falls to Bulkley Lake and sections of Maxam Creek and its main tributary, Foxy creek. Information on water velocities, temperatures, and amount of suitable spawning gravel available and... -
Strategic Stock Enhancement Program Report Upper Skeena: 1998/1999/2000
The Upper Bulkley River coho are an extreme conservation concern. The objective for Upper Bulkley coho was to release up to 80K fry to rearing areas in the watershed that are currently under-utilized. Coho released as fry would be subjected to natural... -
Report on the Upper Bulkley River - 1953
Habitat assessment of the Upper Bulkley River from April 1953. -
Report on the Occurrence of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Disease in Out-...
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) occurs naturally in wild and enhanced stocks of Sockeye Salmon, where it can result in severe infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) disease. We report the occurrence of an IHN epizootic in Sockeye Salmon fry... -
Proctor Creek Groundwater Channel Coho Assessment
A groundwater study was conducted from May 15, 2007 to August 07, 2007 on a small groundwater channel (GWC) located on private property near Proctor Road just east of Smithers, B C. For the purpose of this report, this groundwater channel is referred to as... -
History of Gill Net Catches in Tyhee Lake
History of gill net catches in Tyhee Lake from 1968 to 1992 and stocking history from 1955 to 1992. -
Bulkley River Project: Fabrication and Delivery of Structural Steel for Adult...
This document contains diagrams for fish fence models, such as guide frames, walkway panels, fry screen structures, and more. -
Biological Assessment of Skeena River Coho Salmon
This paper provides data on juvenile densities throughout the Skeena watershed in the year following record low escapements and documents the responses in escapement to the conservation measures taken in 1998. For the Babine Lake coho aggregate, advice is... -
Baseline Fish Health Monitoring Program Bulkley River and Babine River 2003
Six stocks of salmon from the Babine and Bulkley Rivers were sampled for prevalence of bacterial and viral infections and for presence and level of parasite infestation. On the Babine River mainstem downstream of the Babine Lake outlet and at the Babine... -
Assessment Update for Morice-Nanika Sockeye 2001/2002
The Morice-Nanika sockeye stock has been assessed by the DFO since the late 1940's. Over the past two years both DFO and Wet'suwet'en Fisheries have been addressing Morice-Nanika stock status with respect to productive potential and exploitation rate trends... -
Application of Microsatellite DNA Variation to Estimation of Stock Compositio...
Microsatellite loci can be used to estimate spawning escapements of individual Pacific salmon populations returning to remote spawning locations throughout large river systems by analysis of appropriately weighted samples from test fisheries near the river... -
An Inventory of Thautil River and Tributaries
On two separate occasions, June 21 and July 16-18, 1978, the Thautil River Watershed was surveyed to assess its fish presence and diversity. Personnel from the Inventory Section, Fish and Wildlife Branch surveyed the Thautil River with particular emphasis... -
1999 North Coast Stream Inventory Project: Final Watersheds Report
This report describes the results of a 1999 field assessment of fish and fish habitat in selected watersheds in DFO Areas 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 by participants of the 1999 North Coast Stream Inventory Project (NCSIP), managed through the Community Fisheries... -
1999 Lower Skeena River Sport Catch Monitoring Programs
The objectives of this study were to monitor the encounter rates of all species landed by angles in each fishery, report and assess the gear used in the fisheries, and assess the release condition of all salmon, with an emphasis on coho. -
1999 Buck Creek Juvenile Salmonid Trapping Program
In the spring of 1999, the Community Futures Development Corporation of Nadina (CFDCN) was contracted by Barry Finnegan, Northern Coho Stock Assessment Biologist of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, to operate a Rotary Screw Trap (RST) on Buck Creek in the Upper... -
Sockeye Reported to Spawn Outside Babine Lake
This Pacific Stock Assessment Review Committee working paper from 1994 attempts to assess status of all anadromous sockeye salmon populations that spawn within the Skeena River Watershed, excluding those populations that spawn within the Babine Lake... -
Assessment of Sockeye and Pink Salmon Stocks in the Northern Boundary Area Us...
A multi-time-period method of stock reconstruction was used to estimate harvest and stock interception rates by area and time period, exploitation rates and total run size by stock. The data required for these reconstructions were catch by time and area,... -
State of Canadian Pacific Salmon: Responses to Changing Climate and Habitats
This report presents the first high-level overview of Canadian Pacific salmon responses to a rapidly changing world, and provides a foundation for further detailed work required to assess the vulnerability of salmon populations. Here we compile...