Tag: river
Forgotten Giants of the Nechako River
Guest Blogger October 9, 2013
An artificial flow pattern has been created in the Nechako that is designed mainly to accommodate sockeye salmon as they travel up the Nechako before turning into the Stuart River to spawn. No consideration has been given to the Nechako white sturgeon or to the health of the Nechako River ecosystem as a whole.
A week of work I hoped would never end
Guest Blogger August 11, 2011
Have you ever had one of those weeks at work you hoped would never end? I recently did. But of course it’s not every week I get to join researchers on a week-long expedition angling, tagging, and collecting data on Canada’s largest freshwater fish, the Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens).
Oolichan… more than just a fish
Lisa Doolan May 27, 2011
I take great pride in my heritage; who I am and where I come from follows me wherever I go in life. If I could, I would go back to a time when my father prepared his annual trek to Fishery Bay from Gingolx (Kincolith), on the Nass River. Gingolx is one of four Nisga’a Villages within the Nass Valley; it is located at the mouth of the Nass River.