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Development of a management plan for the Baie des Chaleurs watershed and characterization of Atlantic salmon habitat
February 4, 2025 - Description: This project will support the organization’s efforts to develop a management plan for the watershed. The group works with GINU as part of the federal initiative of the Aquatic...
Letting Rivers Run Wild: Monitoring of iBoF Atlantic Salmon in Irish River
February 4, 2025 - Description: ACAP Saint John seeks to expand monitoring efforts in Irish River, an iBoF river, to confirm salmon presence and abundance. The presence of salmon was confirmed in this once...
Immediately improving estuary survival of Atlantic salmon smolts by active management in the Miramichi River
February 3, 2025 - Description: Through previous research work, combined effort from UNB-INTEL and ASF has unequivocally determined that the largest factor currently negatively affecting survival of ocean-bound salmon smolts in Miramichi River is...
Eel River Bar Atlantic Salmon Habitat Recovery Project
August 3, 2023 - This project will continue to build upon implementing the 2010 and 2016 strategic and operational fisheries management plans for the Eel River drainage waters and Restigouche County. The following management...
WATERSHADE Phase 1: Development of a policy and an implementation plan
August 3, 2023 - This project consists in implementing a restoration plan for thermal refuges on the Restigouche River watershed. In the first phase, a policy will be codeveloped for thermal refuges, namely: premices,...
Reproductive breaching of beaver dams and logjam dismantling
August 3, 2023 - With aerial flyover and computerized tools, dams were localized on the Patapédia, Upsalquitch and Kedgwick sections of Restigouche River. Field teams will be deployed to open the habitat a few...
Assessing Barriers (Lower) & restoring access (Upper) to Fish Passage in the Belleisle Watershed
August 2, 2023 - The purpose of ‘Assessing Barriers to Fish Passage in the Lower Belleisle Watershed’ is to identify, assess and delineate barriers to fish passage in the lower Belleisle watershed. Specifically, the...
Letting Rivers Run Wild: Broad Range Monitoring of iBoF Atlantic Salmon
August 2, 2023 - ACAP Saint John will expand our monitoring efforts in Black River, an iBoF river, to confirm salmon presence and abundance. The presence of salmon was confirmed in this once thought...
Lower trophic level subsidies for juvenile Atlantic Salmon production: Can primary and secondary production be linked to juvenile salmon production?
July 27, 2023 - Following the many years of data collection and accumulation on production of juvenile Atlantic salmon and secondary (e.g., benthic invertebrates) and primary (e.g., nutrients, algae, and biofilm) by many organizations,...