The Salmon Health Program will focus on:
Independent Research + Monitoring of Aquaculture: related to sea-lice and pathogen transfer to advance the federal government’s 2025 commitment- deadline to transition away from open net aquaculture and validate eDNA water monitoring for future environmental impact research.
Broughton Partnership: we’re working with the Mamalilikulla, ’Namgis, and Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nations to implement the Indigenous Monitoring and Inspection Program. The scope is to monitor the fish health of salmon in the farms and the distribution of pathogens in the waters surrounding the farms while actively measuring the presence of and the potential exposure of wild salmon to infectious pathogens.
Cumulative Environmental Stressors: Our team will deploy cutting-edge Fit-Chip technology to understand the combined impact of changing environmental conditions on the health of wild Pacific salmon in relation to long-term survival.
