Fisheries Habitat Assessments
One of our Hinton-based Environmental Consulting Services
Poseidon’s aquatic biologists can help determine which species of fish are expected near your works and develop a plan to mitigate any risks to those fish and their habitat.
Fish habitat characteristics vary by region. Fish expected in the foothills such as Bull trout and Cutthroat trout occupy fast flowing, cold, high gradient streams. These defined channels often have rocky substrate and pools and riffles.
In the boreal, watercourses are warmer and have slower flows due to lower gradients which leads to less channel definition and often silty channel beds. There is a higher species diversity in these watercourses, expected fish like Suckers, Pike and many minnows turn up in unexpected places.
