Potential effects on freshwater and marine species and their habitats
Assessed Values
- Salmon (chum and coho) and Cutthroat trout species and their habitats
- Marine fish, sediments and benthic communities (fauna and flora)
- Marine birds and mammals
Assessment Methods
- Review of background information, environmental setting and characteristics
- Fish habitat assessment and mapping, including sensitive areas and critical seasonal habitat
- Streams, wetlands groundwater channels and other waterbodies
- Intertidal and subtidal surveys
- Fish distribution and abundance (including salmon escapement counts in Groundwater channels and McNab Creek)
- Fisheries habitat modelling
- Water quality
- Geochemical water testing and modelling
- DFO and MOE habitat assessment methods
- Underwater video and dive surveys
- Sediment sampling and taxonomy