Monitoring the Mackenzie Delta exploratory fishery
Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: economics, biology, fish, feasibility study, commercial fisheries
| Principal Investigator: | Dahlke, Lothar (1) |
| Licence Number: | 12481 |
| Organization: | Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1993
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1993 |
| Project Team: | representatives from the area to be determined |
Objective(s): To assess the viability of a fishery on the resource; to obtain biological data from all species caught during the fishery.
Project Description: 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.
