Salmo Telemetry Study

Baxter Environmental
$15,000
Salmo, BC

This is the second year of a project to identify spawning, feeding and over-wintering areas of rainbow trout in the Salmo River watershed through use of radio telemetry. Radio telemetry has been utilized as a technique in previous studies on rainbow trout in the Kootenay Region to address management and habitat issues. The data derived from this project will document possible critical habitats for conservation, and identify whether habitat compensation options should be focused on the mainstem Salmo River or tributaries.

The radio tags will be used in conjunction with snorkel surveys to derive a population estimate with precise confidence limits for the second year. This will be done by estimating the sightability of fish during the surveys to allow an estimate of the actual number of fish that are being seen during the swims.

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