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Implementation of the management framework for the Malbaie River nature reserve in Gaspésie for the conservation of Atlantic salmon
February 5, 2025 - Description: Malbaie River natural reserve of 327ha, includes protected properties by CNC, which extend along 4 km of the riverbanks and in its bed, and includes 14 salmon pools. In summer,...
Monitoring of smolt outmigration by capture-marking-recapture to assess striped bass predation on salmonicultural productivity in the Matapedia River
February 5, 2025 - Description: For the last few years, the presence of an important population of striped bass in Matapédia River has preoccupied local communities, fishers and managers of the territory. Few comprehensive...
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...
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...
Atlantic salmon conservation and sport fishing enhancement plan for the Laval River
February 5, 2025 - Description: Following the development of a Laval River Atlantic salmon conservation plan, the most recent studies on the river which were completed in 2018 and 2019 will be updated (Organisme...
Development of a modelling framework to quantify cumulative effects of land use and climate change on juvenile Atlantic salmon
February 3, 2025 - Description: This project builds upon a FCAS project entitled “Development and implementation of a modelling tool to investigate how freshwater ecosystems influence wild Atlantic salmon populations”. In this initial project,...