Salmon Enhancement Program - North Coast Area

2. • Changes to SEP reporting
– Major Facilities now reporting to RHQ
Vancouver
– CIP and RRU still reporting to North Coast
Area Section Head, Sandra Devcic

3. North Coast SEP Areas
• Central Coast
• Haida Gwaii
• North Coast
• Upper Skeena

5. Central Coast highlights
• CA Sandie MacLaurin retired and Ian
Douglas hired as new Central Coast CA

6. Central Coast highlights
• Atnarko Sockeye Recovery Plan
drafted
• Rivers inlet pilot incubation facility
initiated in 2015 and facility
construction initiated in 2016 with
private funding (photo?)
• CEDP and PIP facility upgrades
 McLoughlin Boardwalk rebuild
 Klemtu aeration tower

7. Snootli Hatchery Production
Manager: John Willis
. – Snootli Hatchery rebuild underway
Releases:
Chinook 2.6m
Chum 6.8m
Sockeye 50k
On Hand:
Chinook 2.7m
Chum 6.9m
Sockeye 55k

8. Central Coast Highlights
• Resource Restoration feasibility
– Bella Coola flood impacts
– Fish passage

10. North Coast highlights and priorities
• Kitimat Hatchery
aeration tower
upgrades
• Kitimat Hatchery re-
circulation incubation
• Hartley Bay CEDP
new rearing area
and accommodation
• Hartley Bay CEDP to
start their chum pilot
protect in 2016

11. North Coast 2016 Priorities
• Oldfield PIP intake upgrade
• Lakelse sockeye monitoring
• Kitimat LNG off-setting
review (support to FPP)

12. Kitimat Hatchery
Manager: Markus Feldhoff
Releases:
Chinook 1.3m
Chum 1.6m
Coho Smolts 333k
Coho Fry 30.5k
Steelhead 50k
On Hand:
Chinook eggs 1.38m
Chum eggs 1.7m
Coho eggs 585k
Coho fry 557k
Steelhead fry (2014) 51k
Steelhead fry (2015) 43k

14. Upper Skeena
Highlights for 2015
• New Houston stewardship/salmon
education facility - Upper Bulkley coho
(A Rocha Canada)
• Mission Creek gravel catchment
boulder weirs – Chicago Creek
Enhancement Society
• Upper Bulkley restoration feasibility –
Wet’suwet’en FN, A Rocha Canada,
Steelhead Society
• Lake Babine non-enhanced sockeye
tributary habitat restoration feasibility

15. Fulton Spawning Channels
Manager: Dennis Graf
Channel #1
Females 10,000 (54.4%)
Pre Spawn Mortalities 7.8%
Fecundity 2,564
Deposition 22.8 m
Males 8,373 (45.6%) (Jacks 162)
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Channel #2
Females 66,401 (51.9%)
Pre Spawn Mortalities 3.0%
Fecundity 2,618
Deposition 162.9 m
Males 61,129 (48.1%) (Jacks 3,039)
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Fulton River
Females 100,000
Pre Spawn Mortalities: 5.7%
Fecundity 2,525
Deposition 241.7 m
Males 97,235 (2,272)
Below Fence 325,000 (live count estimate)
ESSR 289,637
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16. Pinkut Spawning Channels
Operations Manager: George Chandler
Channel Loading
Females 27,848 (35%)
Pre Spawn Mortalities 1%
Fecundity 2,692
Deposition 70.55 m
Males 52,790 (65%)
Creek Loading
Females 8,625 (using Channel sex ratio)
Pre Spawn Mortalities 3%
Fecundity 2,692
Deposition 20.29 m
Males 16,375
Below Fence 40,000 (live count estimate)
ESSR 0

17. Watershed Planning and Priorities in
North Coast
• Skeena Habitat
Report Cards
– Completed in 2014
• The Skeena River
Estuary
– ID salmon habitat
indicators
– ID critical knowledge gaps
• Nass Habitat
Report Cards
– Cumulative habitat
pressures
– Many data gaps

18. North Coast Resource Restoration Unit
Highlights 2015
• Babine Tribs
• Upper Bulkley habitat/climate change
monitoring
• Williams Creek side channel feasibility
completion
• McLoughlin Hatchery, infrastructure upgrades
• Clements Creek beaver management
• Ongoing adult sockeye adult monitoring at
Lakelse
Williams Channel: sockeye spawner
Clements Creek: beaver management
Lakelse Lake: sockeye enumeration

19. Thank-you to all our
community grps
Without you, this work would not
be possible