Michael Berry is evaluating how different harvest control rules affect community objectives from Gwich’in and Inuvialuit Dolly Varden fisheries to provide a fresh perspective on MSY-based thresholds proposed by DFO. Angela Ratzburg is taking this a step further to determine how best to manage the fishery given uncertain Arctic climate change.

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.

Amanda Rajala is working with Fiona to see how physical characteristics of watersheds and dam configurations constrain how different systems can act to improve ecological outcomes, which limits the relevance of different performance measures in structured decision-making processes with partners and stakeholders.

Olivia Schaefer is collaborating with the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship 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.

Samuel Ofoe is working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to understand spot prawn population dynamics in the Straight of Georgia. Dylan Perlini is using this model to evaluate different management regulations given very different population dynamics across managed populations.

Brendan Guraliuk is working with the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC (FFSBC) to understand how new and established anglers value different aspects of small fisheries to determine if changing access (docks especially) may dissuade people in either of those groups from fishing at a site. This helps determine where to invest in dock installation.

Tad Iritani and Travis Hackett are exploring mechanisms behind hyperstability in recreational fisheries. Travis will explore how divergent motivations to fish drive persistent site choice differences between novice and experienced anglers. Tad will look at how different mechanisms of hyperstability interact in real fisheries to determine when to trust catch rate data.

Brett and Brendan are also working to determine how demography, fishing behaviour, and economic expenditures of fishing app users relative to the broader fishing community.

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.

Sierra Sullivan is exploring how limited access to watersheds means genetic samples of introgression are commonly taken from historic nonnative stocking sites. She is further evaluating conservation implications of multiple stressors on BC cutthroat and Vancouver Island steelhead.

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