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Report: Kootenay White Sturgeon in British Columbia: 2018 and 2019 Summary Report.

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The acoustic telemetry work completed during this study period in BC included summarizing a three-year juvenile depth study (2015-2018) and an overview of new sonic tags put out in 2018 and 2019.

Author:  Sarah Stephenson, Aaron McGregor and Valerie Evans; FLNRO

Date Published:  Nov 2020

Report ID:  58999

Audience:  Government and Public

Specific goals of the monitoring program within the Canadian reach, completed in 2018 and 2019 were: - describe population trends related to age, body condition, size, and distribution of hatchery White Sturgeon; - compare lake and river sampling within BC; - identify recapture events of recent hatchery releases put in the lake; - describe capture efficiency of wild adults and body condition of wild adults; - index natural recruitment events in the Kootenay system through any wild juveniles caught; and, - using acoustic Vemco technology, tag hatchery White Sturgeon across the range of available brood years in Kootenay Lake and the lower river.

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  Fish and Aquatic Habitat Information
 
Subject
  Fish Species - White Sturgeon - Acipenser transmontanus
  Region - Kootenay
  Fish and Fish Habitat - Conservation Biology
  Fish and Fish Habitat - Monitoring
  Fish and Fish Habitat - Stock Assessment
  Watershed Groups - 340 - Lower Kootenay
 


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