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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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