Principal Investigator:Hovel, Rachel A Licensed Year(s):
2021
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5062.
The two primary objectives are to: 1) maintain a community-based monitoring program of luk dagaii (broad whitefish, Coregonus nasus; herein referred to as whitefish) in the Peel River watershed, based in the communities of Fort McPherson, Aklavik, and Tsiigehtchic. Specifically, the research team measure fundamental b...
Principal Investigator:Moore, Jonathan Licensed Year(s):
2018
2017 Summary:
The objective of this research is to establish a community-based monitoring program in the Peel River watershed, based in Fort McPherson.
Previous research has shown that multiple whitefish ecotypes (non-anadromous, semi-anadromous and anadromous, utilize the Peel River as spawning habitat, but it is unclear how much each ecotype contributes to harvester catches. As different ecotypes occupy d...