Principal Investigator:Low, Mike Licensed Year(s):2024
2023
20212019 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5348.
The objectives of this research project are: 1) to determine why fish mercury levels vary among lakes in the Dehcho region; 2) to identify best predictors of fish mercury levels; 3) to determine with fish have the lowest levels of mercury and the highest levels of nutrients; and, 4) to collect data on parameters that ...
Principal Investigator:Low, George Licensed Year(s):
2016
2015201420122011 Summary:
The objectives of this project are:
1) to determine through which lakes are important as food sources in four Dehcho communities and which fish species are used for human food from these lakes;
2) to train community monitors to collect fish and other samples according to Environment Canada and Department of Fisheries and Oceans protocol;
3) to involve local school children in the studies by ...
Principal Investigator:MacDonald, Donald D. Licensed Year(s):
1995
Summary:
The T.E.K. component of the study will involve a series of interviews with residents in the Liard River basin. These interviews will be conducted by an interviewer who is competent in English and Slavey. The interviews will be recorded on audio tape and transcribed later onto the questionaire and maps. The communities will be provided with copies of all raw and summarized information....
Principal Investigator:Fisk, Aaron Licensed Year(s):
1993
Summary:
The researcher plans to take samples of sediments and fish from sites near the three settlements in order to determine the types of contaminants that are present in the environment as well as those that collect or accumulate in the tissues of fish. This study will benefit other studies that have examined contaminants in NWT wildlife as fish are preyed upon by a variety of wildlife species. The r...