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2001 Upper Kispiox Sockeye Stock Assessment
This project focused on the enumeration of sockeye stocks within the Swan and Stephens Lake Watershed and the suitability of the methods used to carry out this task. To successfully achieve the objectives of this project the GWA constructed an adult fish... -
2001 Beach Seine Survey Project
The Beach Seine Survey project is a study of the juvenile salmonids distribution and their uses of the foreshore. Firstly, each site results were summarized individually by relating the incidence of each species over time. Secondly, impacted and... -
2000 Bulkley River Creel Survey: An Evaluation of the Angling Community on th...
A complemented creel survey was undertaken on the Bulkley River involving an access point survey, a roving survey, and aerial flights (i.e., survey design was access-roving) from September to October 2000. Thirty-two drifts in the roving survey resulted in... -
1:5,000 Fish and Fish Habitat Inventory in the Kispiox Watershed
The objectives of this study were to conduct fish and fish habitat inventories, using 1:20,000 scale maps, to classify stream reaches within or adjacent to proposed timber harvesting areas as per Forest Practises Code regulations. The information in each... -
1:5,000 Fish and Fish Habitat Inventories of Unnamed Tributaries to Toboggan ...
This report presents the results of the stream inventories, including stream classifications and a summary of fish captured, along with site, reach, and fish cards and site photos. The accompanying TRIM maps show sample site locations for only those sites... -
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... -
1996 Bulkley-Morice Rivers Sport Fishery Survey Summary Report
Summary of sport fishery survey catch and effort estimates for 1996 on the Bulkley River between the Skeena and Morice confluences and the Morice River from its confluences with the Bulkley River and Lamprey Creek. The purpose of the survey was to gather... -
1982 Investigations of Adult Coho Salmon in the Telkwa River
A study to provide more detailed information on the timing and distribution of adult coho salmon spawning in the Telkwa River Basin was conducted between September and December 1982. Five tributary streams and the mainstem Telkwa River were examined for the... -
Kitwanga River Salmon Smolt Assessments - Annual Reports
In 1999, Gitanyow Fisheries Authority (GFA) initiated a Kitwanga sockeye-rebuilding program to conserve, protect and recover the stock. One of the highest rebuilding priorities for the Kitwanga Sockeye Salmon Recovery Plan (KSRP), which was initiated in... -
1996 Reconnaissance Dahlaks Creek Fish and Fish Habitat Inventory
In the summer of 1996, Triton Environmental Consultants Ltd. was contracted by West Fraser Mills Ltd., Skeena Sawmills Division to perform reconnaissance level stream inventories of 17 watersheds within TFL 41 and FL A16820. This report describes the... -
Prospects for the 1948 Salmon Catch on the Skeena River
From time to time enquiries have been made of the investigators as to their opinions of the size of runs which can be expected in a given area in an approaching season. For that reason the following comments are being recorded for the Skeena river in 1948.... -
Toward a Fish Habitat Decision on the Kemano Completion Project: A Discussion...
The Kemano Completion Project is massive. The Aluminum Company of Canada (Alcan) proposes a capital expenditure in excess of $2.2 billion which could increase aluminum production from its present level of 240,000 metric tonnes per year to 582,000 metric... -
Stock Assessment of Early Run Skeena River Coho Salmon and Recommendations
Concerns have previously been expressed for the stock status of early run Skeena River coho salmon because of declining escapement levels. Available data on spawning escapements and subsequent recruitment were analyzed using a Ricker model under various... -
Synoptic Surveys Of Juvenile Coho Populations and Associated Habitat Characte...
This report documents the results of sampling conducted throughout the Skeena River watershed between 10 August and 2 September, 1996. Summary information is presented for physical and chemical characteristics of habitat as well as various estimates of... -
1995 Skeena River Sport Fish Coho and Steelhead Catch and Release Study
This report investigated the means by which shoreline anglers played and landed coho and steelhead, as well as observing the method of release and ultimate physical condition of each fish. Video tape and written records of each observed catch encounter were... -
Update of Stock Status Information for Early Run Skeena River Coho Salmon (Th...
This paper updates stock status information used in the previous two papers and examines some new information on juvenile rearing densities which has been collected over the past 7 years but which has not been formally analyzed to date. We do not review the... -
Record of Management Strategies, 1992, Statistical Areas 4 and 5 District 8
This report describes the record of fisheries management strategies for statistical areas 4 and 5 in 1992. -
Record of Management Strategies for Statistical Area 4, District 8
This report describes the fisheries management strategies for statistical area 4, district 8.