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This report summarizes a comprehensive survey of the Sustut river, a major tirubtary of the Skeena river, in 1986. This report is 32 pages long, and contains one area map. For report summary see the long description.
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Author: Spence, C.R., M.C. Beere, M.J. Lough
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Old Reference Number: sk64
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Date Published: Feb 1990
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Report ID: 1671
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Audience: Government and Public
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Report summary: The B.C. Ministry of Environment (Recreational Fisheries Branch) has identified summer steelhead in the Skeena River drainage as a top management priority. Although comprehensive fisheries information has been gathered for most major tributaries of the Skeena, the remote nature of some systems has permitted only minimal, preliminary surveys. The Sustut River, situated approximately 200 km north of Smithers, remains as the last major tributary of the Skeena to be investigated. It supports significant populations of summer steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and chinook salmon (0. tshawytscha), and relatively small numbers of coho (O.kisutch), sockeye (0. nerka), chum (0. keta) and pink salmon (0. gorbuscha). Resident populations of rainbow trout (0. mykiss) and Dolly Varden char (Salvelinus malma) also occur throughout the drainage. Proposed logging developments and improved access are expected to affect fish resources in the Sustut watershed. In recognition of this, the Fish and Wildlife Branch carried out detailed surveys of the Sustut between August and October, 1986 and in June, 1987. The objectives were to: 1. estimate the size of the 1986 summer steelhead population in the Sustut River; 2. examine in-stream movements of summer steelhead in relation to the Sustut sport fishery; 3. gather steelhead life history data; and 4. establish an enforcement profile on the river. The following report documents the 1986 survey and summarizes all previous information regarding the Sustut fishery.
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Fish and Aquatic Habitat Information |
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Subject
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Fish Species - Steelhead - Oncorhynchus mykiss |
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Region - Skeena |
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Fish and Fish Habitat - Stock Assessment |
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Watershed Groups - 490 - Sustut River |
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