kootenay lake

Fish Surveys

Lower and Middle Columbia River, British Columbia. 2009-2011. Assessment of sport fish populations in large river indexing programs (For Golder Associates Ltd. and BC Hydro).

Beaver River tributaries, British Columbia. 2008-2010. Assessment of fish populations and analysis of potential for Westslope cutthroat trout translocation and monitoring of translocated fish (For Selkirk Power Company Ltd.).

Lardeau River, British Columbia. 2008-2010. Annual snorkel survey to estimate juvenile Gerrard rainbow trout abundance throughout the river (For HCTF).

Girnock Burn, Scotland. 2002-2005. Quarterly electrofishing survey to estimate juvenile Atlantic salmon and brown trout densities and growth at six index sites (For FRS).

Population Ecology

Alouette Reservoir, British Columbia. 2009-2010. Age-structured population analysis of Kokanee (For BC Ministry of Environment and Redfish Consulting Ltd.).

Columbia River, British Columbia. 2007-2010. Age-structured mark-recapture analysis of rainbow trout and mountain whitefish abundance (For BC Hydro and Golder Associates Ltd.

Girnock Burn, Scotland. 2006-2007. Analysis of European eel population characteristics (For FRS).

Stock Assessment

Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. 2007-2010. Estimation of angler exploitation of adult Gerrard rainbow trout from tag-return and telemetry data (For HCTF).

Scotland. 2005-2008. Changes in the abundance of Atlantic salmon over half a century as inferred from monthly rod and net catches (For FRS).

River Spey, Scotland. 2006. Estimation of Atlantic salmon angler exploitation from tag-return data (For FRS).

Scotland. 2004-2005. Assessment of the role of automatic fish counters in monitoring changes in the abundance of Atlantic salmon (For SNH).

Fish Movement and Habitat Use

Duncan Reservoir, British Columbia. 2009-2011. Fish habitat use monitoring of reservoir and its tributaries. (For BC Hydro and Masse Environmental Consultants.)

Columbia Basin, British Columbia. 2007-2008. Evaluation of aquatic habitat losses and gains due to BC Hydro Dams in the Columbia Basin (For FWCP).

Loch Garry, Scotland. 2005-2008. Analysis of vertical and horizontal movements of ferox brown trout (For Ferox85).

Salmonid Spawning

Lower Duncan River, British Columbia. 2010-2011. Spawner habitat use and egg mat surveys of mountain whitefish (For BC Hydro and AMEC Earth & Environmental).

Lower Duncan River, British Columbia. 2009-2010. Spawner and redd surveys of Gerrard rainbow trout abundance below Duncan Dam (For BC Hydro and AMEC Earth & Environmental).

Gerrard, British Columbia. 2006-2008. Field studies to estimate intra-gravel water quality and egg-to-fry survival of Gerrrard rainbow trout (For MOE, FFSBC and FWCP).

Population Conservation

San Francisco Estuary, California. 2009. Review of impacts of water extraction on delta smelt (For CESAR).

Loch Rannoch, Scotland. 2007. Analysis of angler mark-recapture data to estimate ferox trout abundance (For Ferox85).

Regulated Rivers

Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, British Columbia. 2010-11. Assessment of stranding issues, analysis of stranding assessment database in order to provide quantitative recommendations on fish stranding issues. (For BC Hydro and Golder Associates Ltd.).

Lower Duncan River, British Columbia. 2010-11. Assessment of stranding issues in lower Duncan River water licensing requirement studies and recommendations for change to system stranding protocol. (For BC Hydro and Golder Associates Ltd.).

Lower Duncan River, British Columbia. 2009-2010. Ramping experimental studies and interpretive report of five years of experiments and recommendations for future assessments of fish stranding in the system. (For BC Hydro and Golder Associates Ltd.).

Lower Duncan River, British Columbia. 2008-2009. Literature review of ramping studies from 2004-2007 to determine remaining data gaps and recommend future directions for research (For BC Hydro).

Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, British Columbia. 2004-2008. Analysis of stranding risk of juvenile salmonids in response to changes in discharge (For BC Hydro).