Fish and Aquatic Ecosystems

Coldstream Nature-Based Solutions offers full environmental services for fish and aquatic ecosystem projects. From salmonid counts to habitat assessments, monitoring and restoration, our team can help you design, implement, and monitor your fish and fish habitat projects. Our services include:

Fish

Fish biology services, fisheries study design, data analysis, reporting and mapping
Juvenile and adult stock assessments
Spawner enumeration
Juvenile growth assessments
Outgoing migration sampling
Fish salvage and risk assessments
Fish tagging and genetic sampling

First Nations Fisheries Management

Indigenous fisheries management services, data collection, data analysis, capacity development and training
Cultural mapping of traditional fishing grounds, travel routes to fisheries and trade routes
Study design

Salmon and Salmon Recovery Planning

Juvenile and adult stock assessments
Broodstock collection
Spawner enumeration
Juvenile growth assessments
Outmigration sampling
Fisheries study design and data analysis,
Risk assessments
Salmon habitat assessments
Salmon habitat restoration
Salmon habitat monitoring
Collaboration with DFO and provincial organizations and technical teams

Fish Habitat and aquatic environments

Fish habitat mapping, assessments, and monitoring
Fish habitat restoration and reclamation
Water quality monitoring
Stream flow monitoring
Biodiversity assessments
Riparian and riparian risk assessment
Shellfish assessments

Featured Project:

Bridge River Chinook Salmon Broodstock Collection

This project is a collaboration between the St’at’imc Nation, Xwísten, BC Hydro and Coldstream Nature-Based Solutions.

The goals of this project are to:

Mitigate the loss of natural production driven by modified hydropower dam operations
Preserve the genetic and phenotypic diversity within the Bridge River Chinook Salmon population.

We operate an Alaska-style fish fence from August through September, collecting biological data from Chinook salmon that swim into the fence trap box.

Chinook that are assessed to be in good condition have eggs and milt collected which are transported to a local salmon conservation hatchery. Once fertilized, the eggs are reared until the following spring at the hatchery and then transported back for release, thereby enhancing egg-to-fry survival of this highly threatened and culturally- significant Salmon population.