The Fraser is one of the world’s great rivers. Historically it produced more salmon than any other place in North America. Its delta is one of the Pacific Coast’s largest and most important estuaries. It is the rearing and feeding grounds for over 50 species of fish, many of which play a crucial role in a foodweb that links fish, birds and marine mammals across thousands of kilometers of the Pacific Ocean.
Just a few hundred meters from where we captured Chinook (see second photo) a tug boat is raised after sinking in the Fraser with thousands of litres of fuel onboard, disaster nearly avoided!
Also Juvenile Chinook salmon captured in the …
Went on a bit of a safari on our way home this afternoon!
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Just when I thought field work was over I find myself back out at Sturgeon Bank. Today Riley Finn and I are mapping marsh islands as part of long term monitoring investigating marsh recession as well as baseline data …
Last day of the Fraser Connectivity Project field season for 2018 and I could not be happier to have captured both juvenile sockeye (left) and Chinook (right) at our last site in the middle arm just south of YVR! Thanks …
Can’t believe it’s already August, the Fraser Connectivity Project team is almost finished for the season but managed to catch this beautiful juvenile sockeye salmon this morning along with a few Chinook! Our day also included bringing some drone footage …
Starting our last week of field work for the Fraser Connectivity Project for this season with some beach seining and fyke netting in the blazing heat! Caught a lonely juvenile coho and a few Chinook this morning still using the …
Today the Fraser Connectivity Project field work included downloading our water chemistry data! Thanks to this little data logger we have been able to record the salinity and temperature of the water in our project areas every five minutes since …
Today the Fraser Connectivity Project team is heading out in the heat conducting marsh vegetation surveys in our project and sampling areas! Thanks to Daniel Stewart and Ducks Unlimited-BC for training us last week, today we put our new skills …
The Fraser Connectivity Project team enjoyed some cloudy weather for once today while purse seining on the sandflats of the Fraser estuary. We don’t catch a lot of fish in these areas compared to the eelgrass and marsh which provide …
bcHad a great time learning more about the important role of salt marsh and eelgrass habitats in carbon sequestration and sharing our research with a great bunch of learners today at the #cityofvancouver blue carbon forum!
Thanks for the invite! …
Another beauty day for sampling in the Fraser estuary! Here is a juvenile Chinook we captured in the eelgrass with deltaport in the background. Structures like the port causeway impact the natural migration pathways that juvenile salmon need to reach …
Fraser Connectivity Project team pulling the fyke net this morning in the rain! This set up deployed is to sample on top of the high marsh to investigate juvenile salmon use of these habitats. Four months after we started juvenile …
This morning’s field work site… through wind and rain @raincoastconservation @dave.scott.bc
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Fraser estuary team setting nets at what can appear to be the end of the Earth.
Beautiful day for purse seining in the Fraser estuary at Roberts Bank. …
Today was amazing! Caught more than 80 stream type Chinook like this beauty, first time ever catching these in large numbers!! Usually we catch ocean-type Chinook only a few months old but these stream type Chinook rear in freshwater for …
Fraser estuary team working hard! #fykenet …
