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Great news: juvenile salmon moving through habitats reconnected after 100 years

Published on 2019 06 19 | by David Scott, Raincoast Lower Fraser Salmon Program Coordinator | in Conservation update

Raincoast Fraser River crew sampling juvenile salmon in the east breach.

Since the removal of sections of the Steveston jetty in February, we have been sampling our new jetty ‘breaches’ and have consistently caught juvenile salmon moving through them! This is a huge success and was realized just weeks after…

A jetty runs through it: restoring lost connectivity in the Fraser River estuary

Published on 2018 03 30 | by Misty MacDuffee & Dave Scott | in Notes from the Field

Dave Scott holds up a tiny salmon in the Fraser rive while he takes measurements

An amazing spring research season has begun. There was snow, and then suddenly we were in our boats with nets and buckets catching the year’s first juvenile salmon. This year brings renewed enthusiasm as we embark on a big plan to restore connectivity and natural processes on the delta of the Fraser River estuary…

Genetics results for Chinook salmon are in!

Published on 2017 02 08 | by David Scott, Raincoast Lower Fraser Salmon Program Coordinator | in Notes from the Field

A salt marsh at the mouth of the Fraser River is used by juvenile salmon, other fish species, and thousands of resident and migratory birds. Photo: M. MacDuffee

When you picture a research biologist’s day you probably imagine them on a boat or in a forest, immersed in nature with a notebook in hand. However, for much of the year we are tucked away in labs or at our desks, analyzing data…

Three months in the Fraser River Estuary

Published on 2016 07 09 | by Raincoast | in Notes from the Field

We have been out on the vast flats of the Fraser River estuary with purse seine and beach seine nets to document the arrival and use of different habitats by juvenile salmon…