Planning and Designing Fish Habitat Assessments – Online – February 11th, 2025

  •  02/11/2025
     10:00 am - 2:00 pm Pacific Time

A well-designed stream fish habitat assessment collects the relevant information to accurately and concisely describe the site, but avoids spending time collecting unnecessary data that does not provide insights. The information collected by different aspects of the assessment should be complementary so that a full picture of site conditions at time of sampling, and also under different flows, may be created. This Micro-Course describes strategies and approaches to selecting specific methods, in a defensible manner and combining information from a range of scales, to complete efficient and effective fish habitat assessments. Participants are assumed to have working knowledge of the standard stream fish habitat assessment methods. Planning and Designing Fish Habitat Assessments is intended for fisheries people working in environments where the fish habitat assessment procedure is not rigorously prescribed by regulators. This is a companion Micro-Course to Interpreting Fish Habitat Assessment information.

Topics covered will include:

  • Determining purpose of assessment
  • Identifying species/assemblage most interested in
  • Desktop analysis to become familiar with watershed, functioning, use
  • Selecting methods – including assessing how you will interpret data (companion course)
  • Selecting locations to assess

Course will be 4 hours long.

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