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This inventory project is part of a joint UNBC / School District (SD) 91, Nechako Lakes collaborative project, known as the Koh-Learning in our Watersheds: Transforming education by connecting students, communities and waterways.
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Author: UNBC
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Date Published: Jan 2022
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Report ID: 62087
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Audience: Government and Public
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We used minnow traps to examine the presence, presence-not detected of juvenile fish in a number of tributaries of the Nechako River Watershed. The project was also coupled with an eDNA project that was designed to explore the use of eDNA to as a tool to examine the distribution of juvenile salmonids in a selected number of streams.
This minnow-trapping project is part of joint UNBC/ School District (SD) 91 an educational program known as the Koh-Learning in our Watersheds: Transforming education by connecting students, communities and waterways. One of the goals of this program is for SD 91 teachers and students, in conjunction with the Koh-Learning in our Watersheds Team at UNBC to use the Pacific Streamkeepers sampling protocols established by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to determine the health of small streams. A part of this educational program was to use minnow trapping to further explore stream health my examining the presence, presence-not detected of juvenile fish in a number of tributaries of the Nechako River Watershed. Due to a range of issues related to COVID 19, the scale and focus of this sampling project changed. We sampled 15 creeks at 74 different sampling locations in 2021. This sampling work was paired with joint UNBC/SD 91 project that used eDNA to examine the distribution of juvenile salmonids in a selected number of streams in the Nechako River Basin. Minnow trapping was used to help corroborate eDNA signals that were detected in selected streams. Sampling for this project took place on the following water bodies: Dog, Nine Mile, Ormond, Tatsutnai, Nahounli, Sowchea, Greer, Swanson, Twin, Clear, Knight, Moss, Murray, and Stoney Creeks as well as the Necoslie River.
Overall, we caught a total of 1037 individuals from seven different species (Chinook Salmon, Rainbow Trout, , Lake Chub, Northern Pikeminnow, Redside Shiner, Sucker sp. and Prickly Sculpin). Chinook salmon were captured at eight of the streams sampled, rainbow trout were captured at ten of the streams sampled
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Fish and Aquatic Habitat Information |
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Fish Species - Chinook Salmon - Oncorhynchus tshawytscha |
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Fish Species - Lake Chub - Couesius plumbeus |
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Fish Species - No Fish Caught |
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Fish Species - Rainbow Trout - Oncorhynchus mykiss |
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Fish Species - Redside Shiner - Richardsonius balteatus |
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Fish Species - Suckers (General) - Catostomus spp. |
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Region - Omineca |
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Fish and Fish Habitat - Fish Inventory |
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Watershed Groups - 182 - Stuart |
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