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Skeena Salmon Skeena Estuary Habitat Report Card
This habitat report card is part of a 2013 project by ESSA Technologies that summarizes pressures on the habitat used by Skeena salmon Conservation Units (CUs) during their freshwater life history stages (migration, spawning and rearing), as well as their... -
Skeena Salmon Skeena River Basin Habitat Report Card
This habitat report card is part of a 2013 project by ESSA Technologies that summarizes pressures on the habitat used by Skeena salmon Conservation Units (CUs) during their freshwater life history stages (migration, spawning and rearing), as well as their... -
Analysis and Priority Identification of Existing Fish Passage Data: Bulkley R...
For this project, existing fish passage information in the Bulkley River watershed located near Smithers, British Columbia, was reviewed in order to prioritize and rank culverts for further assessment and/or rehabilitation. A detailed review and... -
Water Quality Effectiveness Evaluations and Fish Passage Culvert Inspection
Water Quality Effectiveness Evaluations arose out of the Forest and Range Practices Act as a way of measuring the effectiveness of the Act in accomplishing its forest stewardship objectives. The field procedure for Water Quality Effectiveness Evaluation... -
Technical Data Reports for Enbridge Northern Gateway Project
Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership proposed to design, construct, and operate two pipelines extending from Bruderheim, Alberta, to Kitimat, British Columbia. Field surveys completed included sampling of fish species assemblages and habitat... -
Northwest Cumulative Effects Case Study
The Northwest pilot has investigated a range of cumulative effect related topics as well as developed methods to assess impacts of industrial development on a selection of values at a broad spatial scale. The goal of the pilot was to improve the consistency... -
Recent Salmon Declines: A Result of Lost Feeding Opportunities Due to Bad Tim...
This study examined the effects of release time on the migratory behaviour and survival of wild and hatchery-reared coho salmon using acoustic and coded-wire telemetry. -
Concepts and Approaches to WSP Benchmarks and Managing Mixed-Stock Fisheries
Explain some key concepts needed to determine WSP benchmarks and how these are extended to development of a multi-stock fishing plan, with input from community/industry advisors. -
Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Technical reports contain scientific and technical information that contributes to existing knowledge but which is not normally appropriate for primary literature. Technical reports are directed primarily toward a worldwide audience and have an... -
Babine Lake Watershed Sockeye Smolt Population Estimation Project - Mark-Reca...
In the spring of 2013, the Lake Babine Nation (LBN), in collaboration with the Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC), successfully resumed the Babine Lake Watershed Sockeye Smolt Enumeration Project, and continued it again in 2014, and 2015. In 2014, the exact... -
Babine Lake Sockeye Smolt Enumeration - Hydroacoustic Feasibility
Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) conducted a study to investigate the feasibility of using hydroacoustic methodology to enumerate outmigrating sockeye smolts at the outlet of Nilkitkwa Lake in the spring of 2014 and 2015. Hydroacoustic techniques have the... -
Assessment of Sockeye Fry Passage at the Babine River Adult Salmon Counting F...
Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) conducted a study to investigate whether the Babine River Counting Fence prevented sockeye fry that drifted downstream of the structure from migrating back upstream to suitable rearing habitat in June 2015. An engineering... -
Assessing Estuaries as Stopover Habitats for Juvenile Pacific Salmon
Habitats along migratory routes may provide key resources for migratory species (e.g. stopover habitat). For example, migratory juvenile salmon transit through estuaries on their way from freshwaters out to the ocean, but they may also reside and feed in... -
Archaeological Evidence for Resilience of Pacific Northwest Salmon Population...
This paper examines the factors that could account for persistence of the indigenous fishery, despite numerous environmental and cultural changes over the last several millennia. -
An Investigation into the Feasibility of Modifying Derelict Dams to Improve S...
Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC), in partnership with the Lax Kw’alaams Fisheries Program conducted a feasibility assessment to determine whether salmon productivity in the Kloiya River and Rainbow Lake watersheds could be improved by modifying a series of... -
A Widespread Decrease in Productivity of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchusnerka) P...
This analysis report provides a foundation upon which other researchers can base investigations into drivers of sockeye productivity for the Fraser River and elsewhere. -
Wet'suwet'en Title & Rights and Coastal GasLink
The Office of the Wet'suwet'en (OW) presents this submission to British Columbia Environmental Assessment Agency (BC EAO). This submission is a component of the Wet'suwet'en response in respect of the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline project within... -
Wet'suwet'en Submission to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency - Pac...
This submission from the Office of the Wet'suwet'en (OW) to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) is a response to the CEAA report regarding the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG project near LeLu Island. -
Wet'suwet'en Rights and Title and Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipelines Project
The Office of the Wet'suwet'en (OW) presents this submission to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel. This submission is a component of the Wet'suwet'en response in respect of the proposed Northern Gateway project within Wet'suwet'en territory. The... -
Water Temperature, River Discharge, and Adult Sockeye Salmon Migration Observ...
Water temperature, river discharge, and adult sockeye salmon migration observations in the Babine watershed, 1946-2014. Historical meteorological and hydrological data were assembled to review the influence of changes in these environmental factors on...