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Seymour lake is tested about once a month for dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pH, alkalinity, total hardness, total chlorine, water temperature and Secchi depth. Explore and download water quality data results on the Water Rangers website.

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...

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...

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...

This document is the first phase of the Wild Salmon Advisory Council's (WSAC) work. This report presents the Council members’ first and high-level consideration of what might be initiated or supported by the Province in three key subject areas: (a) wild...

The recommendations in this report aim to contribute to reversing the declining trajectory of wild salmon in B.C., and to help stimulate community economies through a focus on (a) increasing wild salmon abundance, (b) protecting and enhancing the benefits...

This guidebook has been prepared to help forest resource managers plan, prescribe and implement sound forest practices that comply with the Forest Practices Code. The information provided in each guidebook is intended to help users exercise their...

The presence of aquatic invasive plants in waterbodies throughout British Columbia have caused significant ecological and economic damage. Targeted aquatic invasive plant inventories and treatments were carried out in priority waterbodies throughout the...

A report studying sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) located in the North and Central Coast (NCC) of British Columbia. Given the limited resources of assessment for salmon located in these remote locations, limnological and population monitoring in many of...

The report includes a series of detailed recommendations to prevent the loss of the last of the very rare and highly important productive old forest, and to manage the remainder of the old forest to a reduced risk level in future.

This report provides an account of current participation in all BC commercial fisheries by Native individuals, companies, and organizations, background on licensing, policies and government programs affecting Native participation and base-line data for...

Evaluation of the efforts made to design a mark-recapture program that could potentially meet several objective in a cost-effective fashion.

This paper discusses nine issues related to the further development and application of end-to-end models, the future of end-to-end modelling, and it's relevance to managing decision making. This paper is based on the discussions at a workshop entitled...

BC Government Surface Water License GIS Data Files. This dataset includes live links to BC Open Data spatial files as well as customized GIS data clipped to the Skeena Watershed boundary. Data clipped is time stamped May 4, 2017. Data included in this...

DFO Area 4 Annual Narrative Reports from 1973 to 1984. Reports include comments on spawning summaries (coho, sockeye, pink and chinook), commercial fisheries, sport fisheries, Indian Food fisheries, water levels, herring, pollution (chemical spills),...

Department of Fisheries and Oceans Area 4 Annual Reports from 1918 - 1949. Reports include comments on spawning summaries (coho, sockeye, pink and chinook), commercial fisheries, sport fisheries, Indian Food fisheries, water levels, herring, pollution...

This report looks at First Nations and their historic connection to salmon fisheries, it enumerates the changes that occurred with the evolution of salmon fisheries into commercial venues, and it looks at present-day conservation issues and the challenges...

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.

The World Summit on Salmon evolved in response to growing concerns of scientists and others about the future of the salmon stocks of the world, in light of the recent collapses of a number of the fish stocks globally, including Canada’s North Atlantic Cod.

This paper analyzes responses of native food fisheries to fish abundance, using data from several areas in B.C.