Working alongside managers in Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Kelcy Tousignant is evaluating how institutional governance affects decision making and eventual fisheries outcomes.

Philip Lemp is working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to evaluate their fishing effort estimation process to determine if shifts in spatial and temporal patterns of fishing are appropriately detected by their current approach.

Maya Townend is working with Gwich’in and Inuvialuit knowledge holders and harvesters to understand fishery objectives and thresholds as seen by their communities in a Dolly Varden fishery co-managed with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Parks Canada. Michael Berry will evaluate how various harvest control rules affect these fisheries objectives under the limitations imposed by the community-derived thresholds.

Fiona Johnston is working with BC Hydro to evaluate data from decades of experimental flow manipulations to understand how power generation interacts with social and ecological values of communities and ecosystems.

Hannah Hunter and Kelcy Tousignant are working with various partners in and out of the lab to provide guidance for fisheries managers on why and how to develop fisheries objectives.

Olivia Schaefer is collaborating with the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development to create a sustainable management plan for Bull Trout in Meziadin Lake. This work integrates data from acoustically and PIT tagged fish and creel surveys to help understand population productivity, fishing mortality and spawning behaviour.

Brett van Poorten is currently evaluating recovery targets for Bull Trout in Pinto Lake based on sporadic tagging data collected over four decades. This work is unique because of a cutthroat trout invasion perceived to influence recovery rates.

Samuel Ofoe is working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to understand spot prawn population dynamics in the Straight of Georgia. Dylan Perlini will use this model to evaluate different harvest control rules for managing spot prawn moving forward.

We have several projects focusing on mortality following catch-and-release recreational fishing. Brett van Poorten is working with local managers to understand how post-release mortality varies with temperature and how time-dependent closures can mitigate the effect of warming summer temperatures.

Additionally, Brett van Poorten and Philip Lemp are exploring how hooking mortality and catchability varies across genetic strains of rainbow trout to help informed stocked fishery management to influence angler expectation and satisfaction.

Mikayla More O’Ferrall is working with partners in the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, as well as the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC on the critically endangered Nechako River White Sturgeon to evaluate sampling strategies that will inform spawning site habitat restoration. Broader outcomes from this work will improve recruitment success of wild-spawned White Sturgeon.

Sophie Watson is working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to understand how habitat conditions affect growth and eventual survival of salmon from watersheds across the BC interior.

Jeremy Ross is conducting a evaluating utility gained by residents and visitors to Jasper National Park when they visit lakes in the park to estimate the social value of lakes, which allows for more balanced decisions when considering management actions affecting the landscape.

Brett van Poorten is evaluating various methods of invasive species control as a means to inform our understanding of population life history and to make decisions on how best to control these populations into the future