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Prospects for using dredged material to develop rearing habitats for juvenile salmonids at two British Columbian estuaries

Although islet construction under certain conditions may be useful as a restoration strategy, caution is required to avoid irrevocable changes in the water volumes of the estuary. In addition, there are difficulties in experimental design for evaluating the success of such projects

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Date (Publication)
2019-09
Cited responsible party
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

West Vancouver Laboratory

Colin Levings

Principal investigator

Department of Fisheries and Oceans

C.D. McAllister

Principal investigator

Edward Anderson Marine Sciences

E.P. Anderson

Principal investigator
Presentation form
Digital document
Purpose

Dredged sand and gravel have been used in experiments at the Fraser and Campbell River estuaries in British Columbia to test if the material could be used to develop rearing habitats for juvenile chum and chinook salmon.

Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9

  • Earth Science > Biological Classification > Animals/Vertebrates > Fish > Ray-finned Fishes > Salmons/Trouts

  • Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Estuarine Habitat

DFO Areas

  • North Pacific Ocean > Fraser River and BC Interior

  • North Pacific Ocean > South Inner Coast(Johnstone Strait, Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca, inlets and passages)

Language

English

Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
Description

Campbell River Estuary and Fraser River Estuary

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Begin
1981
End
1984
Supplemental Information

Abstract from the Fifth International Ocean Disposal Symposium: Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. 10-14 September 1984

Distribution format
Name Version

electronic

none

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Isobel Pearsall

pearsalli@shaw.ca

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/index-eng.html

DFO Science website

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://soggy2.zoology.ubc.ca/geonetwork/srv/api/records/475f2a28-0d99-40e8-b1de-0a05ccef1c44/attachments/475f2a28-0d99-40e8-b1de-0a05ccef1c44.pdf 475f2a28-0d99-40e8-b1de-0a05ccef1c44.pdf
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Dataset
Statement

Levings produced paper copy. Fraser scanned with Fujitsu Scansnap s1500 (ABBY Finereader OCR software).

Metadata

File identifier
475f2a28-0d99-40e8-b1de-0a05ccef1c44 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-12-19T00:18:54.736Z
Metadata standard name

North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata

Metadata standard version

NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Sarah Fraser

fraser.sarahk@gmail.com

Author
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Language Character encoding
French UTF8
English UTF8
 
 

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Keywords

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9
Earth Science > Biological Classification > Animals/Vertebrates > Fish > Ray-finned Fishes > Salmons/Trouts Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Estuarine Habitat

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