David Scott finds a rare ocean-going ecotype - a cutthroat trout way out on the North Arm jetty this afternoon during his fieldwork for the Fraser River connectivity project.
Phase 2 breach construction at the Steveston jetty east breach wrapped up Friday and everything went great. We are conducting our construction in two phases...
Sockeye fry in the estuary in August? We caught this little beauty in the estuary this morning, the first time we have ever captured a juvenile sockeye rearing in the estuary this late in the season!!
Fraser Connectivity Project monitoring continues at our jetty breach locations yesterday! The west breach is looking great with a nice channel developing onto the foreshore, transporting freshwater, fine sediment and fish into the estuary instead of out to sea!
Great to see DFO fisheries minister Wilkinson and minister Popham talking an interest in restoring the Fraser River watershed, thanks Fraser watershed initiative!
Boom! Check me out on theBass Coast workshop schedule for this year! So stoked!! If you’re there on Thursday please come check out my workshop about the salmon and nature of the Coldwater River!!!
Putting lessons into practice! The Fraser Connectivity Project team started our marsh vegetation surveys this afternoon thanks to the id clinic we attended last week, put on by the very knowledgeable Dan Stewart. Thanks Ducks Unlimited-BC for the invite!!…
Thanks to everyone who came out tonight to learn about the road to recovery for the Southern Resident killer whales at the temple of stoke! It all starts with recovering Fraser River Chinook salmon populations!…
This is a picture of water flowing through one of our breaches of the Steveston jetty, note the rock on the right hand side blocking the water from flowing that way! Check out our new video about the whole project! …
I enjoyed presenting and learning from all the great research presented at the salmon ocean ecology meeting in Portland this weekend. There were many great talks...
