Monitoring salmon in our latest breach in the North Arm Jetty
Master’s research is looking into different life histories of sockeye salmon to better understand the impact of Raincoast’s breaches project.
Samantha Rhodes
Samantha is pleased to be conducting her Master’s of Science in partnership with Raincoast at the University of British Columbia, as a member of the Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation laboratory supervised by Dr. Scott Hinch. Sam’s research expands upon Raincoast’s Wild Salmon Program which has studied salmon in the Lower Fraser River for nearly a decade. Sam is investigating how juvenile sockeye salmon of different life-history strategies use the Lower Fraser River and estuary habitats while migrating to the ocean. These life-history strategies are known as yearling and subyearling migrants, which leads to variation in their life cycles and habitat use. The goal of the research is to understand variations in sockeye population’s life cycles and what habitats are important to sockeye for early development and migratory pathways before their ocean adulthood which can inform restoration.