Fisheries Field Skills Certificate Program

Format: Online and field training

Description

Bolster your abilities and acquire key field skills and qualifications to conduct fish and fish habitat field procedures, projects and fieldwork in this two-week program. Under the direction of industry experts, engage in realistic scenarios, where you will learn how to perform valuable technical skills and procedures.

Objectives

• Conduct standard fish and fish habitat inventory and assessment procedures
• Conduct backpack electrofishing surveys
• Perform water quality sampling procedures
• Conduct fisheries field hydrology procedures
• Conduct advanced fish habitat and fish population assessments
• Conduct biological sampling methods and design a biological sampling program
• Conduct fish inventory & capture procedures
• Design and conduct a stream invertebrate sampling program
• Construct and install streambank restoration techniques and structures
• Isolate an instream construction project and conduct a fish salvage

This Course Includes

• NRTG Fisheries Field Skills (FFS) Certificate (accredited by BC’s College of Applied Biology or CAB)
• Customizable option
• Free, lifetime access

Equipment

You are required to bring your own equipment:

• Chest waders
• Wading belt
• Non-slip footwear
• Polarized glasses
• Hat with a brim (e.g., ball cap)
• Clinometer
• Compass
• Waterproof field notebook
• Eslon or other 30m measuring tape
• Minnow trap, ziplock bags
• Metric meter stick (1.2 m wooden doweling)
• Bucket

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Prerequisites

• None 
• A standard one to two-day First Aid course is required as a co-requisite to the Electrofishing Certification training
• Previous experience with Fish Habitat Assessment or NRTG Fish Habitat Assessment – Level One (recommended)

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