Environmentally Sensitive areas PR Harbour 

from fisheries perspective

Click map to 30 K images of sub-areas;

Here is a link to 329K image of the above all on one figure at better resolution

Prince Rupert Harbour Foreshore Habitat Classification

The Port and DFO , joined later by local governments first did an inventory of the harbour habitats and then 

"In 1998, the Steering Committee commissioned a consultant to develop a foreshore classification scheme to classify the intertidal foreshore habitat into a three-class system based on fish habitat value"

The figure left was the result. 

Red areas are considered most sensitive, green the least.

Monitoring a site would make  great School biology project!!

The publication has some useful biology including good physical habitat descriptions. There is an ACCESS database, though the one I have has all the information stripped out of it except the numbers and some general notations like  "eelgrass beds present"

 

The Landsat image left is from BC Energy and Mines site. It is much the same area as the figure above

Original images and access database provided to me by the PR Port Corporation. Much thanks

 

 

Any Comments???

 

 


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