Table of Contents

Abstract

SECTION 1: GENERAL

1.PART 1 INTRODUCTION

1.0 FISH COLLECTION PERMITS

2.0 SPECIAL TRAINING

3.0 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS BY SNORKELING

SECTION 2: FISH INVENTORY METHODOLOGIES

4.0 Fish Handling Procedures

5.0 Fish Collection Methods

6.0 FISH SAMPLING PROCEDURES

7.0 FISH PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES

REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS

GLOSSARY

APPENDIX A: FISH COLLECTION FORMS

Chapter 1: Fish Collection Data Forms

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Lethal and non-lethal gear type.

Table 2: (a) Red-listed fish of BC and their known regional distribution

Table 2: (b) Blue-listed fish of BC and their known regional distribution

Table 2: (c) Extinct fish of BC and their last known regional distribution

Table 3: Order, mesh size and filament size standard in relation to the mean fork length of fish caught.

Table 4: Species measured for fork length or total length.

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Typical beach seine net. Inset illustrates the bunt.

Figure 2. Typical purse seine

Figure 3. Typical sinking gill or enmeshing net.
3a. Gill net mesh sizes
3b. Gill net set

Figure 4. Typical minnow trap.

Figure 5. Typical Fyke net designs with and without wings.

Figure 6. External Characteristics of a Typical Salmonid.

Figure 7. Diagram illustrating common length measurements for BC freshwater fishes.

Figure 8. Diagram indicating preferred locations on body for collecting scales for different species.

Figure 9. Diagram indicating preferred scales to be taken from salmonids for ageing.

Figure 10. The use of microscope slides for collecting fish scales.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Funding of the Resources Inventory Committee work, including the preparation of this document, is provided by the Corporate Resource Inventory Initiative (CRII) and by Forest Renewal BC (FRBC). Preliminary work of the Resources Inventory Committee was funded by the Canada-British Columbia Partnership Agreement of Forest Resource Development FRDA II.

The Resources Inventory Committee consists of representatives from various ministries and agencies of the Canadian and the British Columbia governments as well as from First Nations peoples. RIC objectives are to develop a common set of standards and procedures for the provincial resources inventories, as recommended by the Forest Resources Commission in its report “The Future of our Forests”.

For further information about the Resources Inventory Committee and its various Task Forces, please refer to   http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/

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The Fish Collection Methods and Standards were prepared by Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks’ Fish Inventory Unit, in consultation with Gordon Haas of the UBC Fish Museum, Fisheries Conservation Section and Regional Inventory Specialists. This document is an updated and revised version of the Fish Collection, Preservation, Measurement and Enumeration Manual, RIC draft (1994).

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