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Morice River Steelhead Trout: the 1976 and 1977 Sport Fishery and Life Histor...
The Morice River, located in West-central British Columbia, is one of several Skeena River tributaries that support a late summer and fall sport fishery for steelhead trout. In response to declining angler success on the Morice over the past decade, an... -
Migration Timing and Harvest Rates of the Steelhead Trout Populations of the ...
Migration timing and harvest rates of steelhead trout were examined in relation to the harvest of sockeye salmon in the mixed-stock fishery of the Skeena River. Summer-run steelhead overlap in their migration timing with sockeye salmon to a significant... -
Marine Fish and Fish Habitat Technical Data Report: Proposed Aurora LNG Project
This Technical Data Report (TDR) presents information on existing conditions for marine fish and fish habitats within local and regional assessment areas. The purpose of the TDR is to support the Project’s Application for an Environmental Assessment... -
Managing the Skeena River Sockeye Salmon Fishery - the Process and the Problems
The purposes of this report are to review the development of the management of Skeena sockeye, to describe the current process of managing the Skeena sockeye fishery with emphasis on objective setting and in-season decision making, and to recommend... -
Juvenile Coho Studies at the Telkwa River Ponds
The purpose of these studies is to undertake coho smolt enumeration at Km 1010 and 1011 in the Bulkley River, to compare mark-and-recapture population estimates, and to measure the extent and timing of fry and yearlong immigration into the two pond... -
Interception of Skeena River Sockeye Salmon Stocks in Northern Boundary Marin...
This report estimates the marine interception of Skeena River sockeye salmon stocks in Northern Boundary fisheries. -
Historical Population Structure and Run Timing in the Upper Bulkey-Morice
Summary of the numbers of salmon spawning and run timing for the Upper Bulkley-Morice from 1958-1968. -
First Nations, Salmon Fisheries and the Rising Importance of Conservation
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... -
Factors in the Population Biology of the Sockeye in the Skeena
The purpose of this paper is to examine these features of the population biology of Skeena River sockeye, to indicate factors that may have contributed to influencing the population changes, and to assess with a computer simulation, whether a synthesis of... -
Evaluation of a Mark-Recapture Procedure to Assess the Catchability Rate of ...
Evaluation of the efforts made to design a mark-recapture program that could potentially meet several objective in a cost-effective fashion. -
Effects of a Rock Slide on Babine River Salmon
This report summarizes the results of the investigations on the rock slide of 1951 on Babine River and the following salmon runs of 1951 and 1951. -
Distribution, Timing, and Numbers of Steelhead Returning to the Skeena Waters...
This report summarizes the data collected during the July to November 1995 period and describes the fate and timing information of steelhead movements to the end of November 1995. Fishwheels operated by the Kitselas Band Office were used to catch and apply... -
Commercial Interceptions of Steelhead Trout in the Skeena River: Radio Teleme...
Radio transmitters were placed in 102 Skeena River steelhead during the summers of 1978 and 1979 in order to determine time of entry of specific stocks into the estuary and their potential interception by the commercial gillnet fishery. -
Commercial Interceptions of Steelhead Trout in the Skeena River - A Prelimina...
Test fishing at Tyee was conducted by Fisheries and Marine Service from the first week in June until the last week in August, using standardized drift gillnet sets to monitor the timing and abundance of salmon. -
Chinook Radiotelemtry Project: Skeena River 2010
In 2010 we carried out the first watershed-wide radiotelemetry project for Chinook salmon in the Skeena River. Our objectives were to tag Chinook and trace them to their spawning sites, determine the effectiveness of the latest Skeena Chinook microsatellite... -
Babine Steelhead - A Future
The project was designed to capture wild juveniles of these species during or before their seaward migration, and mark them by inserting a coded wire tag in their snout and removing the adipose fin. The marked fish would then be released. In this manner,... -
An Exploratory Investigation on Possible Approaches Used to Minimize Terminal...
The objective of the present investigation is to formulate an approach that could potentially be used for decision making purposed. -
A Preliminary Investigation of Kitsumkalum River Steelhead Trout 1980-81
Increasing angling pressure combined with intensive logging in the upper watershed and growing human development in the lower watershed during recent years prompted the B.C. Fish and Wildlife Branch to conduct a preliminary investigation of Kalum River... -
Lakelse Sockeye Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation Feasibility Project 2007-08
This report aims to present background information and preliminary project results identifying and prioritizing sockeye habitat rehabilitation that will improve sockeye fry production and recruitment into Lakelse Lake. The goal of the project is to improve... -
Consequences of Catch-and-Release Angling on the Physiology, Behaviour, and S...
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the sub-lethal impacts and survival of wild steelhead following C&R angling. Steelhead were assessed for the presence of the righting reflex (an effective and non-invasive proxy for stress and mortality...