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Forgotten Giants of the Nechako River
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
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).