British Columbia's Babine Lake system has three populations of sockeye salmon smolts which travel different routes to the outlet on their seaward migration. The objective of this study was to determine if the directional preferences of these populations are...

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...

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...

Total angler effort and rainbow trout catch at Fulton and Pinkut Creeks in Babine Lake was estimated from May 1 to June 9, 1990 to document the catch of mature or spawner size fish. At Fulton, anglers fished for 313 days (average length = 2.39 h) and caught...

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...

The marking of young migrant salmon by removing certain fins is a well-established practice. The recapture of such individuals may provide information on times and routes of migration; the degree to which fish return to their "home" streams or "wander"...

The Babine Lake Watershed is the principal sockeye salmon (Oncorhyncus nerka) rearing area for Skeena River sockeye salmon, producing up to 90% of the sockeye returns to the Skeena River over the last few decades. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has...

The Skeena Bulkley RMP was originally developed in 1999 and has been refined and updated annually. This document is the third section of the overall Skeena Bulkley RMP, and outlines the environmental issues and priorities associated with the provincial...

A secondary lake inventory was conducted on Unnamed Lake (WBID 00891BABL, ILP 51148) located approximately 11.6 km northwest of the outlet of Fulton Lake and 8 km east of the village of Granisle. The main objectives of the secondary lake inventory project...

A secondary lake inventory (RIC 1999, 2000) was conducted on an Unnamed Lake located approximately 13 km west of the outlet of Morrison Lake and 13.3 km north of Smithers Landing on Babine Lake, B.C.. The main objectives of the secondary lake inventory...

Babine Lake is the largest unimpounded lake entirely within the province of British Columbia, and likely receives more annual angler days than any other lake in Skeena Region. It is also the most important sockeye salmon nursery lake in the Skeena...

Portions of the Fulton River watershed, and a series of inlet streams to the west shore of Babine Lake between the Fulton River and Newman Island were surveyed in July 1997, June 1999, July— August 2000, and July — August 2001 to assess fish habitat...

This document presents an assessment of the status of coho salmon (Onchorhynchus kisutch) in the Canadian northern boundary areas with emphasis on the Skeena River. The content of this assessment has largely been drawn from published assessments. There are...

The 1996 harvest was unprecedented in a number of ways. It was the first time that all three nations in the Skeena watershed have worked together on such a huge scale. It was the largest harvest undertaken on Babine Lake in modern times in terms of the...

Pacific Brooker Minerals is proposing to develop the Morrison Copper/Gold Project on the east side of Morrison Lake, north of Babine Lake. The project will require the construction of a Tailings Storage Facility, including tailings and seepage control dams,...

The purpose of this project was to compile existing fisheries information relating to fish species under provincial jurisdiction and, where appropriate, add the information to the FISS database. Additionally, as part of the project, an overview of fisheries...

This report deals with the catches of sockeye and other species of fish made in the course of fishing for marked sockeye during the spring, summer and fall after their entry into the Babine Lake (1966-1968).

Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) conducted hydroacoustic surveys in two sockeye salmon rearing lakes in the Babine watershed in 2015. Nilkitkwa Lake and the North Arm of Babine Lake are considered to be the primary rearing areas for the progeny of sockeye...

This report summarizes background fisheries information available for the Morrison Watershed. It focuses on Morrison Creek, Morrison Lake, and its inlet tributaries, with the objective of providing an overview of the fisheries resources of the entire...

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...