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Fish inventory

stun the fish for a second or
_ twa, Gordon points out the

fish can also. sense the cur-

_ rent-:coming’:through~ the -

water even before it’s strong
enough to stun them, °
-Which is why the big one
triéd:to make a break for it:
The® -electro-shocker — is
used over 100 ‘square meires
-of each habital sample. The
captured ©. fish-- . - are
anaesthetised and their size,
specie and numbers -reé-
corded. fe
‘In-some studies, Gordon
adds, samples of .DNA are
also taken.
In. swampy areas where
the electro-shocker doesn’t
work. as well, roe-baited
minnow traps are used. _
Although fish are their pri-
‘mary reason for being there,
he notes they are in a posi-
tion:to gather a lot more in-
formation than that.

“Along Eagle Creek, for
example, the crew's sight-
‘ings. of a black bear and
cubs, ‘moose, wolf tracks

and-even tailed frogs are in
effect an informal wildlife
survey,

Because the trout and dol-
lies find tadpales a delicacy,
they’ ve found the frogs stick
ta. the’ non-fish . bearing
streams running into Eagle
Creek. That could end up af-

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fecting how. those streams
ue. managed in. any cutting
plan. are

Harvey: notes ‘the fish’ in-

ventory. is the first of three
surveys being carried out in
the watershed. Next year. it

will be terrain mapping and:
in 1998. eco-system -map-.

ping takes "place to establish
where. -there ‘are’ wildlife
corridors, =." 2
All the
gathered

information,
will © then: be

~. plugged in to the designing:

of culblocks. "Planning is
no problem, ‘if you've -got
the information," Harvey
points out,

He says it'll be ‘another
five or six years before any
logging takes place and the
first cutblocks will likely be
near the salt chuck,

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Gordon says one of the
differences in this system
from days past-is the entire
watershed -is “surveyed “be-
fore “any - logging - takes
place,” oo
“The problem with survey-
ing ‘only’ the ‘next planned
cutblock was you would get
to the upper reaches and dis-
cover something there that,
if you'd -known about it,
would ° have changed
downstream activity.

” Harvey notes’ any informa-
tion gathered by ‘the forest
company. is- shared with the
provincial Environment
ministry and federal

Fisheries. He also makes no
secret of the faci surveying
on this scale and time frame
would not have happened
without FRBC bucks,

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