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Effects of host migration, diversity and aquaculture on sea lice threats to...
This journal reports and discusses the results that characterize parasite threats of salmon aquaculture to wild salmon populations and show how host migration and diversity are... -
Conserving Skeena Fish Populations and their Habitat
This report constitutes the Skeena Watershed Fish Sustainability Process Stage I document. Conserving Skeena Fish Populations and Their Habitat describes the planning process... -
Conserving Kispiox Fish Populations and their Habitat
This report was prepared for the Kispiox Watershed-based Fish Sustainability Plan (KWFSP) planning table. It briefly describes the origin, purpose, and benefits of Watershed-... -
Babine Lake Watershed Sockeye Smolt Population Estimation Project - Mark-Recapture
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... -
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... -
Assessment of Sockeye Fry Passage at the Babine River Adult Salmon Counting Fence
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... -
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... -
An Investigation into the Feasibility of Modifying Derelict Dams to Improve...
Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC), in partnership with the Lax Kw’alaams Fisheries Program conducted a feasibility assessment to determine whether salmon productivity in the... -
2007 DNA Collection Report
In 2003 the Gitksan Watershed Authorities (GWA) initiated a project to collect genetic (tissue) samples for DNA analysis from chum and pink salmon in selected streams throughout... -
Upper Skeena Fish Passage Culvert Inspection
The purpose of this report is to present background information and survey results for fish passage inspections along the B.C. Rail grade located in the upper Skeena Watershed.... -
The Resumption of the Babine Lake Watershed Sockeye Smolt Population...
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... -
Stock-specific distribution of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Skeena River
The survey was conducted on microsatellite variation at 12 loci in approximately 1,360 juvenile Chinook salmon in the Skeena River drainage in northwestern British Columbia;... -
Sockeye Creel Study Skeena River 2011
The Skeena Watershed is the second largest sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) producing watershed in British Columbia. Sockeye recreational fishing on the Skeena River and the... -
Selling First Nations down the river
OIL AND GAS interests and the government recently offered a First Nation in the Skeena River estuary (BC, Canada) $1 billion to consent to construction of a controversial... -
Sediment Dispersion in Salmon Spawning Streams: The Influence of Floods and...
The geomorphic relationships among forest practices, sediment transport, and aquatic habitat have been the focus of a large number of studies in the Pacific Northwest. Many... -
Sea Lice Transfer between Wild Sympatric Adult and Juvenile Salmon on the...
In order to determine the levels of abundance between juvenile and adult salmon, the researchers examine sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, on both groups of salmon from the... -
Morrison Lake Hydroacoustic Surveys
The Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) conducted hydroacoustic surveys at Morrison Lake during the fall of 2011, 2012, and 2013 in order to determine the density and abundance of... -
McDonell Lake Hydroacoustic Survey
Gitksan Watershed Authorities (GWA) conducted a hydroacoustic survey of McDonell Lake in 2008. The main objectives of this survey were to enumerate and sample the juvenile... -
Live Capture and Tagging of Skeena Chinook Feasibility Study
The Skeena River supports over 75 separate spawning populations of Chinook salmon. Four river systems, the Kitsumkalum, Morice, Kispiox and Bear Rivers account for approximately... -
Lakelse Lake Hydroacoustic Survey
Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC) conducted a hydroacoustic survey of Lakelse Lake in 2012-2013. The main objective of the survey was to enumerate and sample the sockeye fry...