Coastal Forage Fish Network: Forage Fish Monitoring in the Salish Sea
Forage fish are small species that tend to school together and are a main food source for larger predators. They form a critical link in the ocean food web, providing energy transfer through the trophic levels by eating plankton, and then becoming food themselves for a multitude of other predators. Some key forage species include Pacific herring, surf smelt, Pacific anchovy, eulachon (also spelled oolichan or ooligan), Pacific sand lance, and Pacific capelin. Krill and squid can be considered forage species, and so can juvenile stages of larger fish like salmon and walleye pollock. These species or life stages are linked by their position in the food web, providing energy to middle and top predators.
The goal of the Coastal Forage Fish Network (CFFN) is to facilitate collaboration between individual groups working on forage fish. This helps determine where best to focus efforts, resources, and research to address data gaps in order to better inform management and regulatory decisions. The Network’s vision is thriving stable forage fish populations that can sustain the predators that rely upon them, and contribute to a healthy marine food web within the coastal waters of BC.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-03-25
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Project Watershed (CVPWS)
Jacqueline Huard
Principal investigator Project Watershed (CVPWS)
Kate McKeown
Principal investigator
- Credit
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The Coastal Forage Fish Network consists of many organizations in Canada and the western USA, especially including First Nations peoples. MABRRI (Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute) at Vancouver Island University collate the data. The Pacific Salmon Foundation through the efforts of Dr. Isobel Pearsall and the PSF Data Centre assist in hosting the information.
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- On going
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role MABRRI (at VIU)
Kyla Seward
Point of contact MABRRI (at VIU)
Virginia East
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Nature and Environment > Fish > Salt water fish
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Nature and Environment > Fisheries resources
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Nature and Environment > Habitats
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9
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Earth Science > Biological Classification > Animals/Vertebrates > Fish
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Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Coastal Habitat
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DFO Areas
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North Pacific Ocean > South Inner Coast(Johnstone Strait, Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca, inlets and passages)
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PSF_thesaurus
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Fish
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Fish Health
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- Access constraints
- statutory
- Use constraints
- Intellectual property rights
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English
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- Oceans
- Biota
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2017-01-01
- Distribution format
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Name Version Excel
xlsx
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Distributor
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none
- Ordering instructions
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download
- OnLine resource
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Metadata
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- 904a8e86-7992-424a-9b68-40906852f4e9 XML
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-27T01:02:04.484Z
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Pacific Salmon Foundation
Terry Curran
Author
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