Creekwalking in Heiltsuk Territory
All 27 streams that we survey can only be accessed by boat.
This past fall, Raincoast’s Wild Salmon team and technicians from the Reynolds Lab at Simon Fraser University conducted fieldwork for a long-term chum and pink salmon spawner monitoring project in Heiltsuk Territory. Started in 2007, the project monitors spawning populations in 27 small streams throughout the territory, and the data is used to inform fisheries management measures by both the Heiltsuk Nation and federal decision makers.
Click to expand and scroll through the photos. Photos below are by Auston Chhor.
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