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March 4th

Eulachon Conference

‘I am Hungry’ said an elder

DFO Eulachon site good place to start for the Science

  ‘I watched the Kitimat River die, now I am witnessing the Kemano dying too’ – elder R Green

1st day agenda --- below

 

Both these graphics show abundance

I include this one because it shows many smaller streams where Eulachon found other than the 9 distinct units below

It was pointed out no (sustained) Eulachon runs on Islands --- glacier fed rivers seems to be the clue here for homing using scent etc

 

 

Note here quantitative data vs qualitative 

I will come back to these later --- when this graphic done the Skeena & Nass both considered healthy (2008)

 

Most the real interest of conference is in the ‘stories’ etc from individual 1st nations reporting on their Eulachon river – and its significance – especially to elders

 

 

Doug Hay comes out of retirement to talk Eulachon

While Uriah Orr did some of the first studies on North Coast – Doug Hay was Eulachon studies for many years – working on a budget of 10T$ he managed to provide earliest info on this forgotten forage fish – his work mainly on Fraser River at first – more later

 

Status of the Rivers

Fraser done here --- and we have some of best long term data from there – though Don Roberts (Kitsumkalum), along with Clyde and Willie Beynon now providing excellent Skeena River info (more later)

 

 

 

Links on my other Eulachon pages might not work because of site name changed to e-princerupert.com

Previous publications this site

Probably the best of series is 2002 page where Columbia low etc

But also the 2006 where again Columbia --- and 2006 more general page on forage fish

 

See also

My Apr 2000 page for Biology; and

Eulachons cooked

 

especially Rivers graphics in my previous

 

 

Innlander on fire

While photo does not show it well, the fire truck the mayor wants to sell has its basket extended above the Innlander looking down at the fire – downstairs the from windows broken in and fire hoses inserted – a large crowd had gathered by 8PM

Created by LG on Feb 1, 2006

Last updated on Thursday, March 05, 2009