Water Stewardship Information Sources
| ID | 581 |
|---|---|
| Citation | Ecoscape Environmental Consultants Ltd. 2011. Shoreline management guidelines for fish and fish habitat: Shuswap, Mara and Little Shuswap Lakes. Prepared for Fraser Basin Council. |
| Organization | DFO |
| URL | http://www.cmnbc.ca/sites/default/files/Shoreline%2520Management%2520Guidelines%2520for%2520Fish%2520and%2520Fish%2520Habitat_0.pdf |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | The guidelines presented in this report are based on technical results of shoreline inventories recently completed on the Shuswap Lake system (Schleppe, 2009b). These inventories provided important background information concerning fish habitats that occur on Shuswap, Mara and Little Shuswap lakes and fish habitat impacts caused by common development activities. The guidelines are intended to protect and restore important fish habitat values, consistent with conservation and restoration goals of the DFO Policy for Management of Fish Habitat (DFO, 2001). These guidelines do not address development risks to non-fish species (e.g., reptiles, etc.), or riparian or upland ecosystems that do not also provide fish habitat (e.g., provincially ﾓred-listedﾔ cottonwood riparian ecosystems on large river floodplains) because these lie outside DFO's legislative authority. Also, because completed inventories only describe features located within 50 meters of the high water mark, additional inventory and mapping projects such as Sensitive Ecosystem Inventory would be required to address concerns related to wildlife species and ecosystems along the shoreline. A solid understanding of aquatic and riparian fish habitat values, common development activities and the effects of these activities on fish habitat is required to identify and differentiate low and high risk works. Foreshore Inventory and Mapping (FIM) is a standardized, spatially explicit shoreline inventory methodology that was employed to map the shorelines of Shuswap, Mara and Little Shuswap lakes. This methodology has been used to map the shorelines of other BC lakes and provides a common basis for integrating environmental information into land use guidance documents. salmonids, aquatic habitat |
| Information Type | report |
| Regional Watershed | Shuswap |
| Sub-watershed if known | Mabel Lake |
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| Project status | complete |
| Contact Name | Ecoscape Environmental Consultants Ltd |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |