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Community engagement for aquatic conservation project
February 5, 2025 - Description: Corduroy Brook Enhancement Association Inc. (CBEA) has a fishway that was established in collaboration with Ducks Unlimited. However, although it is prohibited, they have noticed individuals fishing in this...

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...

Atlantic Salmon Education in Newfoundland & Labrador 2023
July 27, 2023 - The Atlantic Salmon Education in Newfoundland & Labrador 2023 project will build on expertise developed by offering education opportunities within Salmonier Nature Park as well as through outreach throughout the...

Romaine River salmon restoration program 2021
September 20, 2021 - The mission of the SSRR, which was created in 2011, after the construction of Hydro-Québec dams on Romaine River, is to restore salmon population in Romaine River and its main...

Atlantic salmon conservation plan and recreational fishing enhancement on the three Pabos Rivers
September 20, 2021 - The development of an Atlantic salmon conservation plan on Pabos rivers will enable us to regroup and analyze all studies, documents, and written material about this river to draw a...