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Development of methods for monitoring and analyzing salmon river thermics
February 5, 2025 - Description: Thanks to the deployment of numerous thermographs along salmon rivers by FQSA, the organization has now a continuous important quantity of data. FQSA intends to analyze the data to...

National strategy for the deployment of counting gates on Quebec salmon rivers
February 5, 2025 - Description: The project will support the installation of counting fences to monitor upriver runs on targeted priority rivers and financially support salmon counting. The second generation automatic IchtyoS meter developed...

Literature review on the cohabitation of recreational activities on salmon rivers and the carrying capacity of the environment
February 5, 2025 - Description: Since 2020, the pandemic and the exceptional traffic in the Gaspé region and elsewhere in Québec led to questions on recreational uses of salmon rivers and their impact. Since...

Minimizing the impact of culverts on Atlantic salmon habitat Phase 2
February 5, 2025 - Description: In phase 1, a multi-criterion analysis method in geomatics which was based on a spatial analysis approach made it possible to identify and characterize river crossings that can pose...

Atlantic salmon knowledge forum
February 5, 2025 - Description: Created in 2022 after the amalgamation of CIRSA’s annual scientific symposiums (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur le saumon atlantique) and FQSA (Fédération québécoise pour le saumon atlantique), the Forum...

Awareness of the importance of wild Atlantic salmon and its habitats: first scientific forum of the FQSA
June 1, 2022 - We want to hold the first FQSA scientific Forum with the interuniversity Alantic salmon research center (CIRSA), which will be take place in person and partially on the web. It...

National strategy for counting fence deployment on Quebec salmon rivers
June 1, 2022 - The second generation automatic IchtyoS meter developed by WSP is an efficient tool to count the number of salmon entering in the river in summer, therefore the number of spawners...

Minimize the impact of culverts on Atlantic salmon habitat
June 1, 2022 - The project objective is to complete the inventory of water crossings in salmon rivers watersheds in Quebec to evaluate their potential and known impacts on the fragmentation and the loss...

Developing a method to assess the hydromorphological sensitivity related to logging operations in the watersheds of salmon rivers in Gaspésie and Bas Saint-Laurent
June 1, 2022 - How do freshwater ecosystems (e.g. temperature, hydrology, biological interactions, land-use practices) influence wild Atlantic salmon populations? Development of an assessment of watercourses hydro-morphological sensitivity in relation to logging operations with...