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Public information and awareness activities
February 5, 2025 - Description: The SSRR Web site was refreshed in 2018, but no updates have been made since then. It is important to ensure that SSRR continues to be very visible on...
Thermal refuges and citizen science
February 5, 2025 - Description: With climate change, heat waves and low water episodes are observed more and more frequently. During heat waves, salmon is thermally stressed and needs areas where the river is...
Assessment of Atlantic salmon recruitment prior to the restoration of river processes
February 5, 2025 - Description: Log drive activities linearized and leveled several areas of Escoumins River. If wood transportation accelerated, substrate generally became too coarse for Atlantic salmon spawning. Also, the shallow depth of...
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...
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...