Skeena River – 2008

A pilot project using acoustic telemetry was designed and deployed in the Skeena and Bulkley River system in summer 2008 with the intention to test the technical feasibility of using acoustic technology in the free-flowing Skeena River to answer several important questions about the survival and migratory behaviour of returning adult steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Fish were collected and tagged at two sites: (a) the Tyee sockeye test fishery near the Skeena River mouth and (b) a site located 300 m below the Moricetown Falls in the Bulkley River canyon.  Read report