Monitoring the Mackenzie Delta exploratory fishery

Régions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region

étiquettes: economics, biology, fish, feasibility study, commercial fisheries

chercheur principal: Dahlke, Lothar (1)
Nᵒ de permis: 12481
Organisation: Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Année(s) de permis: 1993
Délivré: janv. 01, 1993
Équipe de projet: representatives from the area to be determined

Objectif(s): To assess the viability of a fishery on the resource; to obtain biological data from all species caught during the fishery.

Description du projet: Three crews of two people each will be stationed at the commercial fishing camps to obtain biological and catch effort data from the fisherman. A supervisor will oversee the project in the field and set some experimental nets in the vicinity of the commercial nets at one of the camps. A minimum of 200 whitefish samples will be obtained from the fishermen's catch.