Fisheries
When it comes to freshwater and marine species and their habitats, SWCA staff conducts a wide variety of biological activities for agency clients and industries including development, mining, energy and transportation. Our fisheries specialists employ a number of studies in order to determine where fish are located, what factors influence them, and what management practices can most effectively maintain and enhance fish populations.
Services include:
- Fish surveys, including presence
and distribution surveys
- Fish passage evaluations
- Fish population estimation
- Freshwater, estuarine, and marine
fish habitat mapping
- Fish habitat inventories, including channel typing for forest practices
- Subsistence use studies
- Egg and larval retention studies
- Watershed assessment
- Fisheries monitoring and modeling
- Habitat enhancement/restoration design and monitoring
- Fish diet and habitat use research
- Statistical data analysis
- Threatened and endangered species surveys
- Underwater videography