Fish Habitat Monitoring
Fish habitat monitoring programs normally fall into three general categories:
- Compliance Monitoring
- Effectiveness Monitoring
- Environmental Effects Monitoring
Fish Habitat Compliance Monitoring
- Monitoring to ensure conformance with legisaltion, regulations, policies, etc.
- Monitoring to ensure conformance with terms and conditions of regulatory approvals
- Normally undertaken during project implementation
- Follow-up monitoring may be undertaken to ensure that fish habitat mitigation and fish habitat compensation works continue in their intended form and function
Effectiveness Monitoring
- Monitoring to ensure that fish habitat mitigation and fish habitat compensation measures are successful in achieving their intended effect
- Monitoring to ensure that fish habitat compensation measures are successful in achieving their intended effect
Environmental Effects Monitoring
- Monitoring to measure the overall effects of a project on fish habitat, taking into account mitigation and compensation measures
- Can include cumulative effects monitoring
- Examples of cumulative effects monitoring programs are presented below:
RAMP Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program - Oil Sands Region of northeastern Alberta
Jones, N.E., W.M. Tonn, G.J. Scrimgeour and C. Katapodis. 2003. Productive capacity of an artificial stream in the Canadian Arctic: assessing the effectiveness of fish habitat compensation. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60: 849-863.
Packman, G.A., D. Harper, S. Samis and D. Lampi. Review of approaches for estimating changes in productive capacity from whole lake / stream destruction and related compensation projects. Canadian Technical Report on Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership. 2004. Columbia River Estuary Habitat Monitoring Plan.
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