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Department of Fisheries & Oceans Central & Arctic Region 1995-1996 Science Sector Fisheries & Oceans Science Habitat Management & Environmental Science
103 .F57 C466 1995-96 /9.296.2 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector INDEX
INTRODUCTION 1 Organization & Description of Operation 2
FINANCIAL SUMMARIES By Division 3 By Collator 4 Office of the Regional Director of Science 6 Fish Habitat Management Division 7 Arctic Fish & Marine Mammals Division 8 Arctic Habitat Science Division 11 Aquaculture & Fish Health Programs 12 Fish Habitat Research Division 13 Directors Office (GLLFAS) 16 Ecotoxicology Division 16 Fish Habitat Studies Division 17 Ships 18
OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE 19
FISH HABITAT MANAGEMENT DIVISION 25
ARCTIC FISH & MARINE MAMMALS DIVISION 59 Arctic Fish Ecology and Research Section 61 Arctic Marine Mammal Ecology and Research Section 91 Resource Management Science 104
ARCTIC HABITAT SCIENCE DIVISION 112 Contaminants Research Section 116 Arctic Marine Ecosystems Section 132 FWI Library 135
AQUACULTURE & FISH HEALTH PROGRAMS 137 Aquaculture 137 Fish Health 143
FISH HABITAT RESEARCH DIVISION 147 Experimental Ecosystems Section 150 Experimental Lakes Area Observatory 165 Food Chain Studies Section 172 Fish Biology Section 185 Aquatic Chemistry Sub-Section 192 Toxicology Research Section 200 Environmental Biochemistry Section 210
GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR AQUATIC SCIENCES 216 Directors Office 216 Ecotoxicology Division 218 Fish Habitat Studies Division 235
SHIPS 252
APPENDICES LIZ. Appendix A: Organizational Charts 257 /03 • F51 6 ,104 Introduction & Budget Summary SCIENCE SECTOR
Mandate & Organization for Fisheries & Ocean Science Habitat Management & Environmental Science
Introduction
The Central and Arctic Region of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans comprises Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, and the NWT and covers an area of 6.5 million km 2 (64% of Canada). The region contains 510,710 km 2 of freshwater, 67% of Canada's supply, and has 173,000 km of marine coastline, more than double that of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts combined.
The extreme geographic, demographic and species diversity of the region is mirrored by a diversity of federal responsibilities for fisheries in the different provinces and territories. By virtue of the Constitution, the Fisheries Acts, and the Canada Shipping Act, Parliament and hence the Government of Canada has legislative jurisdiction over sea coast and inland fisheries and navigational charting. In the Northwest Territories and the Arctic Ocean, the Central and Arctic Region exercises the complete federal mandate. In Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, authority for the day-to-day management of inland fisheries has been delegated to the provinces. However, the federal government retains the responsibility for the conservation and protection of fish habitat. Historically, the Central and Arctic Region has acted as a service and advisory agency to governments and industry, applying knowledge, data and information to national problems of freshwater fisheries. The region undertakes sustained process-oriented research and, thereby, provides the context within which the Federal Government ensures the overall conservation and protection of the freshwater aquatic environment.
Under a Science reorganization effective in FY 95/96 the Science Sector now contains three elements with different responsibilities as follows:
1. Fisheries and Ocean Science - including stock assessment, aquaculture research and physical oceanography;
2. Habitat Management and Environmental Science; and
3. Hydrography as a line organization.
This inventory will only deal with Science projects in the first two elements because Hydrography now reports to DFO headquarters as a line organization.
page 1 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Organization & Description of Operation
As of April 1, 1995, the Science program (exclusive of Hydrography) had reorganized to reflect the Department's new Science elements.
In Winnipeg at the Freshwater Institute (FWI), there are four main Divisions as follows:
1. The Arctic Fish and Marine Mammals Division carries out studies to acquire knowledge for the management and protection of the fish and marine mammal populations of the Arctic.
2. The Arctic Habitat Science Division carries out studies of the composition of the Arctic marine ecosystem and assessment and monitoring of the levels of contaminants in Arctic fish, marine mammals, and the ecosystem. Contaminants are investigated for their impact on the suitability of fish and marine mammals as food sources for northern peoples, as well as impacts on the Arctic species and their environment.
3. The Fish Habitat Research Division carries out process research on the structure and function of freshwater and habitats with particular emphasis on national and transboundary habitat problems including acid rain, climate change, toxic chemicals and contaminants, and the ecological impact of man-made reservoirs.
4. The Habitat Management Division is the regional focus for habitat initiatives and develops conditions, positions or advice necessary to protect fish and marine mammals and their habitats from the effects of industrial proposals.
Also in Winnipeg (and in Toronto but managed from FWI) are two small groups which provide fish health certification services to the aquaculture industry in the Region. The Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre, which was formerly part of an aquaculture research group, is slated to be closed or sold to third parties as a result of recent Program Review decisions.
At the Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW) in Burlington, there is another research group: The Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (GLLFAS). GLLFAS is composed of two Divisions:
1. The Ecotoxicology Division conducts a biological monitoring and research program in support of Canadian Government commitments to Annexes 11 and 12 of the Canada/U.S.A. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Laboratory and field studies determine trends of toxic chemicals and their impact on Great Lakes biota. An "ultra trace" analytical facility equipped with both a high resolution and low resolution GC/MS is also part of this Division.
2. The Fish Habitat Studies Division conducts field and laboratory habitat studies in support of Canadian Government commitments to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC, sea lamprey research), the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and departmental research objectives arising from its Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat (1986). This Division is recently concerned with developing and applying habitat protection and restoration techniques in the International Joint Commission (IJC) "Areas of Concern". This Division has a small component located in Sault Ste. Marie.
page 2 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector 689.3 108.6 175.6 166.0 188.9 140.2 328.4 518.4 667.7 Total 1,113.9 2,985.6 1,803.2 1,372.1 2,985.6 1,960.8 1,632.7 5,249.8 2,235.0 2,105.5 5,321.0 19,906.5 11,671.1 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 35.0 35.0 CAP 336.0 259.0 294.0 as of August 20, 1995 as of August 20, 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 74.0 64.5 864.5 578.7 822.8 0&M 636.9 1,209.0 1,209.0 1,570.0 7,616.1 3,013.2 1,785.2 3,393.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.3 64.1 186.7 186.7 112.4 619.8 393.2 393.2 114.3 114.3 Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1996196 Non-A-Base 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.9 3.0 8.9 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs 13.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 10.0 10.0 20.0 65.2 61.2 56.3 46.0 179.5 114.3 CAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.0 10.4 19.2 81.5 17.9 56.4 167.8 385.7 553.5 124.3 362.5 362.5 122.8 227.2 155.8 897.4 262.7 262.6 0&M 1,487.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 89.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 12.0 17.9 22.0 14.6 OT 174.0 263.0 531.7 499.7 466.2 97.6 62.7 92.0 544.2 A-Base Resources 1996/98 A-Base Resources 235.8 780.0 151.2 163.7 975.9 975.9 140.2 834.7 656.6 331.1 177.6 246.9 1,802.8 9,136.2 1,254.4 Salary 1,011.6 2,940.0 6,357.5 1.0 3.0 2.0 3.3 5.4 3.0 6.0 2.0 3.0 10.6 14.5 25.1 14.7 17.0 12.5 17.0 PYs 33.2 19.0 50.4 22.0 164.3 114.1 3.0 0.0 2.0 3.0 7.0 3.0 9.0 0.0 2.0 14.5 11.6 26.1 14.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 37.0 PYs 19.0 54.0 23.0 175.0 120.0 Notional NOTE: THESE FIGURES REPRESENT RESOURCES BEFORE YEAR I PROGRAM REVIEW REDUCTIONS NOTE: THESE FIGURES REPRESENT RESOURCES BEFORE YEAR I PROGRAM SUBTOTALS Ships: Limnos & Launches CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-1996 BUDGET BUDGET 1995-1996 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL BY DIVISION RESOURCES Ships: Lauzier Habitat Management SUBTOTALS Fish Health Toronto SUBTOTALS Director, GLLFAS Ecotozicology Division Fish Habitat Studies Division Clean-up Fund Resource Management Science SUBTOTALS Fish Health Wpg Fish Habitat Research Division Division Regional Director Science Regional Director Science Science EARP/AFSAC Division Arctic Fish & Marine Mammal Arctic Habitat Research Division Arctic Habitat Research Division (SAS) Special Assignments Section 2512 2511 SHIPS [managed by Hydrography] TOTAL SCIENCE HABITAT MANAGEMENT 2930 2991 GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR AQUATIC SCIENCE GREAT LAKES LABORATORY 2921 2990 2920 2707 FRESHWATER INSTITUTE SCIENCE LABORATORIES INSTITUTE SCIENCE LABORATORIES FRESHWATER 2973-4 Aquaculture/Rockwood 2973-4 Aquaculture/Rockwood 2975 2900 2922 2960 2970 2980 2950 Coll
. . (..) .0 -0 0 A, CII A Coll FRESHWATER INSTITUTESCIENCELABORATORIES 2961 2960 2508 2922 2900 2970 2966 2950 2923 2981 2980 2972 2971 2983 2982 2975 2707 2925 2924 2986 2985 2984 2974 2973 Actic HabitatScienceDivisionAdministratk Arctic Fish&MarineMammalDivisionAdn Arctic FishResearchSection Marine EnvironmentalEmergencies Science AFSAC Special AssignmentsSection(SAS)•• Contaminants ResearchSection Regional DirectorScience Section Arctic MarineEcosystemsSection Arctic MarineMammalResearchSection EARP FVVISt. Library Aquatic ChemistrySub-Section Aquaculture RESOURCES BYCOLLATOR CENTRAL &ARCTICREGION:1995-1996BUDGET Toxicology ResearchSection Food ChainStudiesSection ELA Observatory Experimental EcosystemsSection Fish HabitatResearchDivisionAdministrat Fish Health:Winnipeg Rockwood Hatchery Resource ManagementScience Environmental ToxicologySection Fish BiologySection Note: SAS PYsinclude: Capel(0.6),Gibson(1.0),Rowes (0.7), &Tretiak(1.0). SUBTOTALS Work Area 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.1 Notional 120.0 PYs 10.0 11.0 10.0 12.0 10.0 10.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 3.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 4.0 7.0 6.0 6.0 4.0 3.0 5.0 1.0 3.0 5.0 114.1 PYs 10.0 10.0 10.0 11.8 2.0 3.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 3.3 3.0 6.0 4.0 4.5 2.0 4.1 9.5 3.0 9.0 3.2 5.0 5.4 1.3 Salary 6,357.5 A-Base Resources1996/96 593.4 177.6 592.9 549.4 105.1 215.4 706.2 219.1 537.7 ' 74.3 331.1 112.1 140.2 291.5 210.3 553.8 302.7 118.7 163.7 172.6 92.0 97.7 0.0 0.0 499.7 466.2 OT 10.9 14.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 O&M 897.4 122.8 154.3 95.0 27.4 34.8 17.9 29.0 23.3 81.0 44.8 94.0 33.1 24.1 19.2 34.0 10.0 19.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 9.7 CAP 114.3 36.0 44.3 10.0 12.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Non-A-Base Resources1995/96 Salary 114.3 114.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3,393.9 O&M 279.9 589.0 660.8 328.2 143.8 244.2 322.0 112.2 175.9 119.4 121.7 28.8 40.0 64.5 34.0 29.0 10.5 90.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 as ofAugust20,1995 294.0 CAP 203.0 35.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11,530.9 1,277.5 1,037.1 1,331.5 Total 993.6 204.3 518.4 256.9 212.6 188.9 230.8 192.7 667.7 995.2 857.1 435.0 437.9 396.2 324.4 709.5 40.0 34.0 97.6 92.0 0.0
_lopes aoueps uo! Bal oR9JV V leJluaO Od CI DF O Central & ArcticR egion Science Sector 689.3 108.6 1803.2 1113.9 175.6 Total Total Total 2,985.6 1,372.1 1,960.8 1,632.7 5,249.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 CAP CAP CAP as of August 20. 1995 as of August 20. 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 578.7 864.5 O&M O&M O&M 1570.0 3013.2 1,209.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.3 64.1 186.7 186.7 112.4 393.2 Salary Salary Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base Resources 1996/96 Non-A-Base Resources 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 8.9 PYs PYs PYs 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 10.0 10.0 20.0 65.2 61.2 CAP CAP CAP 0.0 11.0 81.5 10.4 167.8 385.7 553.5 124.3 227.2 O&M 362.5 O&M O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 89.0 12.0 22.0 10.0 10.0 174.0 263.0 OT OT OT 97.6 62.7 544.2 780.0 235.8 A-Base Resources 1995/96 151.2 834.7 656.6 A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1996/96 A-Base Resources 1996/96 975.9 1802.8 Salary Salary Salary 1.0 2.0 3.0 10.6 14.5 25.1 17.0 12.5 14.7 33.2 PYs PYs PYs SCIENCE SCIENCE 0.0 2.0 3.0 11.6 14.5 26.1 18.0 18.0 14.0 37.0 PYs PYs PYs Notional Notional Notional 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 Area 1.2 Area 1.1 Area Work Work Work SUBTOTALS Ships: Limnos & Launches Section Ships: Lauzler CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-1996 BUDGET BUDGET 1995-1996 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL Habitat Management Fish Health: Toronto RESOURCES BY COLLATOR (continued) BY COLLATOR RESOURCES Section Director, GLLFAS Clean-up Fund Fish Habitat Studies Division Ecotoxicology Division Section 2512 2511 2930 2990 2991 2920 2921 SHIPS [managed by Hydrography] SHIPS [managed by Hydrography] HABITAT MANAGEMENT Coll Coll GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR AQUATIC FOR LAKES LABORATORY GREAT Coll Ob 0 cn lo .0 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector 0.0 0.0 15.0 19.0 40.0 92.0 833.7 166.0 667.7 667.7 Total Total Resources as as EARP source 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CAP CAP as of Auguet 20. 1•SS as of Auguet 20. 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 19.0 40.0 74.0 74.0 O&M O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Salary Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 PYs 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 CAP CAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.9 17.9 17.9 O&M O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OT OT 466.2 466.2 466.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 92.0 92.0 269.6 177.6 177.6 Salary Salary A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 5.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 PYs PYs 10% 50% 100% 100% Arctic 100% 1111 1531 1130 1411 1411 4th Leader Bergmann Bergmann Bergmann Shortt Cooley # ID 2966-6602 2966-6601 2960-6000 2961.6100 2900-0000 SCIENCE CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY INVENTORY PROJECT 1995-6 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL EARP/CESA - Science Recovery ot the Arctic Blologlal Station Database Hudson Bay - Habbt Sensitivity Mapping (Brander-Smith - AFSAC SCIENCE SCIENCE Directors Office Regional Director of Science, Central IL Arctic Regional Director of Science, Central AFSAC/EARP Project Title Project Title 24 22 23 21 20
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al ° v D FO Central & Arctic Region ScienceS ector 5.0 76.5 78.1 42.6 74.1 76.0 60.6 61.6 54.3 95.2 15.0 55.5 10.0 29.6 40.0 68.2 53.0 24.9 59.8 84.7 58.9 102.6 117.4 178.0 124.1 145.2 107.7 264.0 182.3 207.9 365.9 Total 2,918.7 Total Resources other EARP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP EARP HAP, other HAP. CEAA CEAA CEAA HAP HAP CEAA source 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 CAP as of August 20, 1095 as of August 20, 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 50.0 50.0 90.0 48.0 15.0 48.0 90.0 95.0 20.0 44.0 10.0 53.0 20.0 50.0 40.0 63.0 15.0 35.0 110.0 176.0 O&M CAP O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.1 154.0 104.0 111.1 Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.9 393.2 1,157.0 35.0 3.0 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs Salary PYs 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 13.0 - 0.0 32.0 25.0 40.0 51.6 140.9 O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 OT 0.0 5.2 6.3 0.0 9.6 0.0 0.0 5.2 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.7 11.6 12.6 12.6 12.6 56.0 56.5 58.1 1t5 22.4 53.9 18.9 65.7 59.8 110.2 130.7 225.0 Salary A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1.1 1.3 1.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.2 1.1 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 2.3 0.0 0.3 4.3 0.2 16.8 959.0 10.0 362.5 0.0 PYs Salary OT O&M CAP PYs 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 13% 10% 40% % 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Arctic 1510 1510 1510 1510 1130 1510 1510 1510 1511 1512 1510 1512 1512 1512 1512 1512 1511 1511 1511 1511 1511 1511 1410 1511 1511 1511 1410 1512 1512 1410 1510 4th Leader McKenna Keast Fisher Katopodls Metikosh Ferguson Metlkosh Katopodla Katopodls Hopky Metlkosh Majewskl Katopodie Hopky Stein Metikosh Hopky Pryznyk Hopky Broughton Hopky Fisher Stlen Allen Bond Faille Stlen Broughton Katopodls Metlkosh Stekt ID # 2745-2009 2745-3003 2750-5001 2750-5002 2751-0000 2745-2008 2745-3002 2745-2007 2745-2002 2745-20051 2745-1002 2745-1003 2745.0006 2745-0007 2745-0001 2745-0002 2745-0003 2730-3008 2730-3009 2731.3101 2730-3004 2730-3005 2730-3006 2730-3002 2730-3003 2730-3001 2708-0800 2708-0801 2708-0802 2711-1100 2730-3000 FISH HABITAT MANAGEMENT DIVISION Habitat Management - Inuvik District Habitat Management - Yellowknife District Habitat Management - Nunavut Manitoba/Saskatchewan Habitat inventory Ontario Codes of Practice Habitat Struciures Audit Instream Flow Modelling Intake Screening GuidelinesIData Base Development Great Lakes Habitat inventory Saskatchewan - CFO GIS Development and Implementatiot Habitat Mitigatbn Techniques Alberta Habitat and Inventory Project Habitat Action Plan: Alberta Bull Trout Presereatbn and Pul Sturgeon Rehabilitation Ontario Habitat Restoration Northern Wows Study CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY INVENTORY PROJECT 1995-6 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL Saskatchewan/Manitoba EARP Saskatchewan/Manitoba EARP DOJ Legal BHP Diamonds DFO/Manitoba Fish Habitat Management GIS EARP - Uranium Mines FISH HABITAT MANAGEMENT DIVISION DIVISION MANAGEMENT FISH HABITAT Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Project Alberta Habitat GIS Project Ontario HabltatrCEAA Referral Alberta EARP adman River Dam Project Title Project Title Habitat Management - Program Administration Habitat Management - Program Program Dauphin Lake Stream Rehabilitation Fish Passage Ontario Habitat Management Program CEAA Administration 57 58 56 53 54 51 52 50 49 47 45 46 42 44 41 43 39 40 38 35 36 37 33 34 31 32 28 29 30 26 27 page tti --, iii lo .0 DF O C entral & Arctic Region Science Sector 8.6 9.6 9.5 6.0 8.2 7.2 18.0 16.1 91.2 76.0 16.6 42.9 79.7 30.0 43.1 31.9 47.1 44.0 42.0 20.0 56.4 19.9 31.1 60.6 35.7 57.3 12.2 23.8 48.9 993.6 204.3 204.3 Total PARKS PERD FJMC TFN FJMC NRBS PARKS FJMC PARKS GWICHN source TFN FJMC, PS AreCol, PS, 1 TFN PARKS GWICH'N FJMC GWICHN TFN TFN SAS 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 CAP as of August 20, 1995 as of August 20, 2.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 9.5 4.5 0.0 7.0 3.0 0.0 10.0 58.0 20.0 10.5 18.0 36.5 25.0 17.0 28.0 15.0 14.0 37.0 28.8 328.2 28.8 O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.0 36.0 CAP 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 ao 4.0 0.0 7.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.0 81.0 32.0 27.4 27.4 O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OT 7.6 6.1 6.1 6.1 5.0 5.0 6.0 5.0 5.2 5.2 5.2 17.2 15.0 21.0 18.1 19.1 12.0 34.9 43.2 27.9 27.0 27.1 42.4 10.4 27.0 53.3 53.6 20.8 16.9 549.4 112.1 112.1 Salary A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.9 0.7 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.5 0.7 1.1 0.1 0.5 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 10.0 0.1 0.3 2.0 2.0 PYs 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Arctic 100% 100% 100% 14 1112 1111 1115 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1513 1111 11 1110 1110 1111 1111 1110 1110 1111 1112 1111 1111 1410 1112 1111 4th Leader Mathias Relit Gyselman Chlperzak Tallman Rest Rest Tallman Tallman Rest Tallman Tallman Gyselman Chlperzak Gyselman Rale Chlperzak Mathias Chlperzak/Relst 1112 Gyselman Relst Babaluk Gyselman Babaluk Babaluk Babaluk Chlperzak Reist Babaluk Peet IDs 2971-7133 2971-7134 2971.7603 2971-7129 2971-7132 2971-7128 2971-7128 2971-7121 2971-7123 2971-7124 2971-7125 2971-7117 2971-7113 2971.7114 2971-7111 2971-7112 2971-7110 2971-7106 2971.7108 2971-7104 2971-7105 2971-7102 2971-7103 2971-7101 2971-4408 2971-2200 2971-4407 2971-1395 2971-7100 2970-0000 Arctic Fishes of Lake Hazen Area of the Arctic Char DNA Techniques for Fhh Stock Identificatior of of Hydroacoustic Assessment Research Broad Whitefish Fishery Model and Synthesis ISR Broad Whitefish Test Fishery Data - Technical Report Population Dynamics and Modelling Greenland Halibut Assessment Summary Assessment Population Dynamics and Genetic Stiucturing of Firth River Fbh and Fish Habitat Utilization In Slave River Arctic Marine Fisherles Assessment ISR Broad Whitefish Test Fbhery • Analysis of By-Catch Sp Hydroacoustics Assessment Research Assessment of Rat Meer Spawning Char Hydroacoustic Feasibility for Char Enumeration Assessment Shellfoh Survey Proposal Development for offshore waters Nearctic Fish Genetic Assessment Arctic College/DFO Training Survey Experimental Fisheries Management Cumberland Sound Turbot Stock Identification Hydroacoustic Assessment of Rat River Char Coastal Zone Research Micro•PIXE Analysis of Broad Whkefish Otollths for DIscrkni Micro•PIXE Analysis of Broad Whkefish Micro-PIXE analysis of Dolly Varden Char Arctic Fish Age, Growth and Early Llte History Greenland Halibut Aging Arctic Stock Identification CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY INVENTORY PROJECT 1995-6 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL Tagged Broad Whitefish Recovery Tagged Broad Whitefish Recovery Assessment of Micro-PIXE Analysis of Turbot Otollths Assessment of Micro-PIXE Analysis Arctic Fish Ecology/Assessment Research - Administration Arctic Fish Ecology/Assessment Project Title Project Title ARCTIC FISH & MARINE MAMMALS MAMMALS FISH & MARINE ARCTIC Arctic Fish & Marine Mammals Divisbn Planning and Admln Arctic Fish & Marine Mammals 90 88 89 87 85 86 84 82 83 78 79 80 81 I J 77 75 76 74 ...... 72 71 70 68 69 67 65 66 62 63 64 60 Division Mamagement Division Mamagement Arctic Fish Ecology & Research Section Arctic Fish Ecology page o gb co g ca -a DFO Central & A rctic R egion Science Sector 21.2 37.2 33.5 77.7 28.2 31.3 42.0 141.8 131.1 111.5 119.9 261.7 Total 2,235.0 1,037.1 Total Resources HWMI3 (ren) TFN MAWR TFN PCSP PCSP TFN TFN. FJMC source TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 CAP CAP 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 79.3 24.0 35.0 15.0 25.0 17.5 68.1 636.9 O&M 279.9 O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Salary Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 PYs 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 46.0 10.0 10.0 CAP CAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 5.0 9.0 0.0 8.3 0.0 23.0 262.7 154.3 O&M 100.0 O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OT OT 13.2 15.2 21.8 51.8 84.9 24.5 13.2 68.7 63.5 24.5 23.0 592.9 188.8 Salary 1,254.4 Salary A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1.0 0.4 1.3 1.5 0.1 0.2 1.0 0.5 3.0 0.2 0.5 0.3 22.0 10.0 PYs PYs % 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Arctic 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1115 1410 4th Leader Nielsen Ines Stewart Inns Cosens Cosens Stewart de March Ines Clayton Stewart Cosens ID # 2972-9009 2972-7207 2972-7208 2972-7205 2972-7208 2972-7203 2972-7204 2972-7202 2972-7201 2972-4302 2972-4303 2972-7200
, DIVISION DIVISION (continued) (continued) DIVISION ARCTIC FISH & MARINE MAMMALS ARCTIC FISH & MARINE MAMMALS Bann Bay Beluga Project Boy/head Abundance and Age Structure for Northern Huds Ringed Seal and Walrus Diseases Community Consultations - Baffin Bay Beluga Survey Marine Mammal Population Ecology Marine Mammal Population Ecology Research Erntonmental Impact Assessment CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY INVENTORY PROJECT 1995-6 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL Marine Mammal ProducttvIty Manna Mammal Dbtributkin Marine Mammal Population Genetics and Stock Diseriminat Marine Mammal Population Genetics 8cmhead Stock Identification on Beluga Biology Impact of Relative Population Size Project Title Arctic Marine Mammals Ecology & Research Section Ecology & Research Section Arctic Marine Mammals ARCTIC FISH & MARINE MAMMALS MAMMALS FISH & MARINE ARCTIC Arctic Marine Mammals - Administration Arctic Marine Mammals - Administration 99 98 96 97 95 92 93 94 103 102 101 100 page page 106 ArcticChartStockAssessmentandMonitoring 105 GreatSlaveLakeandOtherInlandFisheries-StockAssest 101 NarwhalAssessmentandMonitoring 107 Arc 109 Wain*StockAssessmentandMonitoring III 110 Project Title RESOURCE MANAGEMENTSCIENCE Beaufort SeaBelugaTagging Beluga StockAssessmentandMonitoring,Tagging CENTRAL &ARCTICREGION:1995-6PROJECTINVENTORY RESOURCE MANAGEMENTSCIENCE - 11c ChanAssessmentandMonitoring 2706-0601 2707-0702 2707-0701 2707-0700 2707-0704 2707-0703 2707-9016 ID # Day Day Day KrIstofferson Richard Richard Richard Leader 4th 1111 1115 1111 1111 1115 1114 1115 100% Arctic 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% % PYs PYs SalaryOTO&MCAP 0.9 0.9 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.1 1.4 6.0 331.10.0122.8 A-Base Resources1995/96 A-Base Resources1995/96 Salary 46.2 59.7 48.4 77.3 29.7 11.1 58.7 OT 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 O&M 45.0 16.0 46.8 9.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 CAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs Non-A-Base Resources1995/96 PYs Salary 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Non-A-Base Resources1995/96 Salary 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 O&M 0&M CAP 64.5 0.0 45.0 19.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 as ofAugust20,1225 CAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 source NIF NWMB ADM &len( Resources Total Total 103.7 124.1 518.4 75.7 93.4 36.6 55.2 29.7
Jopas aouap s uo! bai o!lani "S' leilua0 OACI DF O C entral & A rctic R egion Science S ector
70 4 0. 51.2 34.7 1 47.1 96.9 77.2 30.7 88.3 192.7 192.7 103.4 324.4 221.0 105.6 145.4 184.3 13 119.3 206.1 113.1 143.8 256.9 Total 2,105.5 1,331.5 Total Resources • SF ADM Science ADM Sclenct ADM Science NC NC NC NC NC NC MS, NC FJMC, ADM, TC Various source tc 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CAP CAP as of August 20, 1995 as of August 20, 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 16.0 24.0 55.0 15.0 45.0 10.0 30.0 50.0 36.0 40.0 29.0 90.0 139.0 100.0 822.8 O&M 143.8 589.0 143.8 O&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.3 34.5 11.1 11.1 40.3 114.3 114.3 Salary Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 2.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 2.0 0.0 0.0 PYs Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 0.0 PYs 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CAP CAP 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 7.0 0.0 95.0 18.0 19.0 95.0 34.8 11.1 11.5 12.2 155.8 O&M O&M 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OT 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 OT 0.0 0.0 97.7 12.4 97.7 18.7 50.6 27.2 89.3 20.9 27.2 32.1 28.0 18.5 87.6 39.0 48.2 203.0 215.4 593.4 106.1 105.1 105.1 Salary 1,011.6 Salary A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 3.0 3.0 3.8 4.0 0.2 1.4 0.4 0.8 0.3 1.6 0.5 1.7 0.5 0.4 0.8 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.8 19.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 PYs 10.0 PYs 30% 75% 90% 90% 50% % 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Arctic 1412 1132 1132 1532 1532 1533 1532 1533 1533 1533 1533 1533 1532 1533 1533 1532 1532 1410 1533 4th Leader Layton Welch Muir Welch Muir Lockhart Muir Muir Muir wagemann Muk Muir Lockhart Lockhart Lockhart Lockhart Lockhart Shorn &writ ID # 2508-0000 2984-8401 2984-8402 2923-2313 2923-2314 2923-2312 2923-2311 29232309 29232310 2923-2306 2923-2307 2923-2308 2923-2302 2923-2303 2923-2304 2923-2300 2923-2301 2922-2200 2922-2201 ARCTIC HABITAT SCIENCE DIVISION Library Arctic Marine Ecosystems Arctic • Lac des Gras Contaminant Profiles and Stock klentkicaton Contaminants In Arctic Marine Fish Spatial and Temporary Trends of Metals In Marine Mammal: Ident of OCs a PAHs in Air IAESI Sprite and Temporal Trends of Organochlorines In Arctic I Food Chain Effects In Yukon Laken Evaluating the Utility of Bbmarkers In Marine Mammals Evaluating the Utility of Bbmarkers Joint Agreements Projects Contaminant Trends In Arctic Markle and Freshwater Fish CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY INVENTORY PROJECT 1995-6 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL Contaminant Fluxes to Native People from Accelerated Con Contaminant Fluxes to Native People Contaminants Research Section - Administration Contaminants Research Section ARCTIC HABITAT SCIENCE DIVISION DIVISION HABITAT SCIENCE ARCTIC Arctic Habitat Science (*Won Administration Arctic Habitat Science (*Won Administration Toxic Chemicals Data Management .-- Mercury in Sediments In Hudson Bay 136 134 133 131 129 130 128 127 125 126 124 121 123 Arctic Contaminants Assessment and AMAP Report 120 122 Deposita! Trends-lake & Marine Sediment 118 119 114 115 FW1SL Library Arctic Marine Ecosysytems Section Arctic Marine Ecosysytems Section Contaminants Research Section Contaminants Research Division Management Division Management page Project Title page Project co -.. n /3 In D FO Central & Arctic R egion Science Sector 9.8 8.8 98.8 16.8 36.0 36.0 625.9 108.6 188.9 188.9 230.8 328.4 Total Total Resources him NRBS source 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CAP CAP as of August 20, 1I195 as of August 20, 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 10.5 10.5 0&M 0&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Salary Salary Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PYs Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 PYs 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CAP CAP 0.0 0.8 6.2 2.8 86.6 11.0 11.0 19.2 19.2 13.5 56.4 33.1 0&M 0&M 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OT 14.6 OT 14.6 14.6 9.8 6.0 97.6 87.8 16.0 22.5 29.8 508.2 163.7 163.7 172.6 246.9 Salary Salary A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1995/98 A-Base Resources 1.8 2.0 0.2 3.0 3.0 5.4 4.1 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.1 10.4 PYs PYs 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% % 10% Arctic 1121 1121 1121 1124 1125 1120 1123 1122 4th Leader Heiman Souter Heiman Olson Tabachek 011es Tabachek Tabachek ID # 2975-7503 2975-7502 2975.7501 2974-7400 2973-7303 2973-7301 2973-7302 2973.7300 Certification AQUACULTURE & FISH HEALTH AQUACULTURE & FISH Survey for Whirling Disease in the Great Lakes Diagnostic Pathobblogy CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY INVENTORY PROJECT 1995-6 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre Rockwood Aquaculture Research Section Administration, Aquaculture Section Administration, Aquaculture Fish Nutrition Fish Physiology Aquaculture Coordination Project Title Project Title AQUACULTURE & FISH HEALTH FISH HEALTH & AQUACULTURE ,, 140 Fish Health 145 146 144 142 140 141 138 139 Fish Health Section: Toronto Fish Health Section: Winnipeg Fish Health Section: page Aquaculture Section Aquaculture Section i° " to v c, DF as of August 20, 1995
CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY O FISH HABITAT RESEARCH DIVISION A-Base Resources 1995198 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Total C
page Project Title ID # Leader 4th PYs Salary OT O&M CAP PYs Salary O&M CAP source ent Arctic r
Division Management al & 148 Fish Habitat Research DArtsion - Administration 2980-8000 Papat 1530 20% 1.9 110.1 10.9 9.7 44.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 175.0 149 Enhanced Basic Knowledge of Lake Sturgeon 2980-8001 Papst, Fudge 1531 0% 0.1 8.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.0 0.0 SF 37.6 A rcti 2.0 118.7 10.9 9.7 44.3 0.0 0.0 29.0 0.0 212.6 c R Experiment Ecosystems Section 151 Experimental Ecosystems Section Plannhg and Admln 2981-8100 Hecky 1530 0% 1.2 48.7 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 68.7 e gi 152 Effect of Littoral Habbt Alteration on Productive Capacfty of 29814101 Campbell 1532 0% 1.0 65.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 53.0 0.0 SF 1 18.1 on S 153 Lake 302 North Acidification Effects/Arnelloration 29814104 Hecky 1531 0% 1.0 59.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.3 0.0 LRTAP 96.2 154 Ecosystem Interpretatbn and Special Projects 29814107 Hecky 1530 0% 1.2 86.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 200.0 50.0 ws•MAL 340.0
155 National LRTAP BlornonitorIng Program 29814109 Davies 1531 0% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 LRTAP 0.0 ci
156 Ccoperatke Uplands Experiments and Modelling 2981-8110 Hecky 1531 0% 0.8 46.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 67.1 0.0 SF, LRTAP 113.1 e nce S 157 Algal Physiology 29814112 Hendzell 1531 0% 0.4 20.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.8 158 Experimental Retrence Systems 2981-8113 Kasten 1531 0% 0.5 26.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.0 159 Long-term Analysts al Fish Populations & Physical Habitats 29814114 MIN 1531 0% 0.2 13.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 126.1 0.0 SF 139.8
'a e tu 160 Lake 221 BlomanlpulatIon Experiment 2981-8115 Mills 1536 0% 0.4 22.8 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.8 .2 ct CD 1 61 Lake 223 Acidification Effects/Recovery Experiment 2981-8118 Mills 1533 0% 1.2 63.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.2 0.0 LRTAP 127.1 or
41 la"i vc, Lake 382 Cadmium Addition/Recovery Experiment 2981-8117 Mills 1533 0% 0.2 13.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.0 TC 23.9 163 Lake 302 South Acidification Effects Experiment 29814118 Turner 1533 0% 0.9 46.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 104.6 0.0 LRTAP 151.0 164 Algal & MIcrobbi Research 29814119 Findlay 1533 0% 0.5 25.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0
9.5 537.7 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 660.8 50.0 1,277.5
ELA Observatory 166 ELA Observatory Planning and Management 29824200 Shearer 1530 0% 0.9 51.8 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 EXT 59.8 167 Experimental Lakes Area Hydrological Network 29824201 Beaty 1530 0% 0.3 15.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 54.4 0.0 LRTAP, oche 73.4 168 Experimental Lakes Area Meteorological Program 29824202 Beaty 1532 0% 0.3 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.6 0.0 LRTAP, othe 41.6 169 Experimental Lakes Area LirnnologIcal Field Support 29824203 Crulkshank 1530 0% 0.9 45.1 0.0 10.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 58.0 3.0 Tc, other 128.1 170 ELA Station Operations 2982-8205 Shearer 1412 0% 1.3 48.3 7.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 150.0 200.0 TC, other 475.3 171 Elf. Database and Atlas 2982-8208 Shearer 1412 0% 0.8 43.9 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 0.0 SF 78.9
4.5 219.1 7.0 94.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 322.0 203.0 857.1 CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY DFO C FISH HABITAT RESEARCH DIVISION (continued) A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Total ent page Project Title ID # Leader 4th % PYs Salary OT O&M CAP PYs Salary O&M CAP source
Arctic ral
Food Chain Studies Section & 173 Food Chain Section: Planning and Administration 2983-8300 Fee 1132 0% 0.1 7.7 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.7 A 174 Lake Variability Study: NW Ontario Lake Size Serbs 2983-8301 Fee 1531 0% 1.5 96.6 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 SF 116.6
175 Flooded Wetland Study of Hg at ELA 2983-8302 Rudd 1531 0% 1.0 62.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 75.2 0.0 TC 137.3 rcti 176 Effects of Wetland Flooding on Flux of Greenhouse Gases 2983-8303 Rudd 1531 0% 1.0 62.1 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.2 23.8 c 177 Zooplankton Ecology and Zoogeography 2983-8305 Salid 1132 0% 0.4 20.8 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 R 178 interactions of Contaminant Loadings 2983-8306 Paterson 1532 0% 1.6 75.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 ELARP 77.9 e
179 Stream and Littoral Invertebrate Community Studies 2983-8307 Flanagan 1132 0% 1.8 118.1 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.5 0.0 SF 163.6 gi
180 Benthic invertebrate Studies 2983-8308 Rosenberg 1531 0% 2.0 136.6 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 139.6 on S 181 Chironomk1 Emergence from ELA Lakes 2983-8309 Davies 1532 0% 0.5 26.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.2 0.0 AR, SF 55.0 182 Phytoplankton Ecology and Taxonomy 2983-8310 Kling 1531 0% 0.8 41.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 43.0 ci 183 Algal Ecology and Physiology 2983-8311 Guildford 1125 30% 0.6 32.7 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.2 54.3 ence S 184 BiornonitorIng at RA 2983-8312 Davies 1532 0% 0.5 26.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 28.3 0.0 AR 48 Encyclopedia of Aquatic Habitats In Central and Northern C 2745-2004 Fee 1520 0% 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 55.0 0.0 HAP 60.0
11.8 706.2 0.0 44.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 244.2 0.0 995.2 e ct
Fish Biology Section or 186 Influence of Organic Matter on Hg Availability 2985-8501 Bodaly 1532 0% 0.2 15.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 58.7 0.0 TC 73.9 SF 159.8 187 Lake 226 Drawdown 2985-8502 Bodaly 1532 0% 1.4 89.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 TC 12.6 188 Mercury in Fbzli ki Hydroelectric Resevoks 2985.8503 Bodaly 1532 0% 0.1 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 SF 96.3 189 Littoral Fish Habitat Dynamics 2985-8504 Franzln 1132 0% 0.7 48.1 0.0 6,0 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.2 0.0 0.0 20.6 190 LImnology and Fisheries of Lake Winnipeg 2985-8505 Franzin 1132 0% 0.3 20.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.1 191 Genetics of Coregonld Fishes 2985.8506 Bodaly 1532 25% 0.2 13.1 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.5 149 Enhanced Bask Knowledge of Lake Sturgeon 2980-8001 Papst, Fudge 1531 0% 0.1 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
3.0 199.9 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 175.9 0.0 385.8
Aquatic Chemistry Sub-Section 9.1 193 Aquatic Chemistry Sub Section Planning and Admin 2986.8600 Stalnton 1412 0% 0.1 6.1 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 TC, PERO, 6 223.8 194 Stable Isotope Assessment of Food Source S. Contaminant 2986-8601 Hesslein 1532 0% 1.4 105.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 112.2 0.0 28.6 195 Analytical Methods Development 2986-8602 Stainton 1412 0% 0.4 24.6 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 37.4 196 Analytical SeMces, ELA Laboratory 2986-8603 Stalnton 1412 0% 0.8 35.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 67.7 197 Analytical Services, Winnipeg Laboratory 2986-8604 Stainton 1412 0% 1.4 63.7 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.4 198 Ouaiky Assurance/Ouallty Control 2986.11605 Stalnton 1412 0% 0.5 24.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 44.9 199 Aquatic Chemistry Research and Data Analysis 2986.8607 Stalnton 1221 0% 0.8 42.9 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
5.4 302.7 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 112.2 6.0 437.9 CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-1996 BUDGET DFO FISH HABITAT RESEARCH C DIVISION (continued) A-Base Resources 1996/96 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Total
page Project Title 113 # Leader 4th % PYs Salary OT 0&M CAP PYs Salary 0&M CAP source e Arctic nt Toxicology Research Section ral &
201 Toxicology section - Administration 2924-0000 Maley 1533 0% 0.3 20.4 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 28.4
- 202 Cadmiun In a Lake Ecosystem 2924 2401 Maley 1533 0% 2.7 158.0 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.2 0.0 rc 196.7 A
203 Endouinailleproducive Tcadco1ogy 2924- 2402 Brown 1533 0% 0.7 46.1 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.5 0.0 rc 60.6 rcti 204 Microbial and invertebrate Toxicology 2924- 2403 Lawrence 1533 0% 2.0 120.9 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.0 0.0 135.4
Neuro- - 205 /Endocr1ne Tcadcology Chemosensory 2924 2404 Hera 1533 0% 1.0 84.6 0.0 14.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 99.1 c
206 Netroenclocrine Totcology. Histopathology and Morphornetrk 2924- 2405 Nara/Evans 1533 0% 0.9 SF 46.8 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.5 0.0 54.3 R
207 Behavioural EcobgyFroxlcology 2924-2406 McMcol 1533 0% 1.0 52.0 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.5 0.0 TC 61.0 e 208 °misting Hormones, Gonad Morphology and Vitamin Analyse 2924-2407 BrowrvEvans 1533 0% 0.3 18.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.9 0.0 NRBS 43.3 gi 209 Laboratory Study of Barbet Oxygen Recrairements 2924-2408 Brown 1533 0% 0.2 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.1 0.0 NRBS 30.7 on S 9.0 553.8 0.0 34.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 121.7 0.0 709.5 ci enc Environmental Toxicology Subsection 211 Erwfronmental Toxicology Section* Administration 2925-2500 Klaverkamp 1533 0% 0.2 13.7 0.0 10.1 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 rc 28.8 0.0 e
212 Biochemical Toxicology 2925- 2501 Klaverkamp 1533 0% 0.7 39.2 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 46.2 S
213 Environmental Chemistry 2925- 2502 Klaverkamp iu 1533 0% 1.6 91.6 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 98.6 ect a 214 Fish Health Monitoring 2925- 2503 Klaverkamp 1533 0% 1.5 86.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 85.0 0.0 IC 171.5
.... or in 215 Metal Miring Effects Study 2925- 2504 Klaverkamp 1533 0% 1.0 60.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.4 0.0 rc 89.9
5.0 291.5 0.0 24.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 119.4 0.0 435.0
A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Total
PYs Salary OT O&M CAP PYs Salary O&M CAP Resources
FISH HABITAT RESEARCH DIVISION 50.4 2,940.0 17.9 262.6 66.3 0.0 0.0 1,785.2 259.0 5,321.0 DFO Central & Arctic R egion ScienceS ector 27.4 78.3 10.2 78.0 92.7 16.2 90.0 37.3 71.5 116.3 175.6 151.6 176.6 332.2 234.4 255.8 146.2 224.7 Total 1,960.8 Total Total Resources source source NSERC TC GLFC rc TC TC TC rc CEAA, Hydro TC TC 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1995/96 CAP CAP as of August 20, 1995 as of August 20, 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 11.0 14.0 47.0 51.5 29.8 113.6 134.5 182.1 266.0 864.5 0.0 O&M CAP O&M O&M 2.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.9 24.2 22.3 64.1 Non-A-Base Resources Non-A-Base Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Non-A-Base Resources 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 PYs Salary PYs Salary PYs Salary PYs Salary 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 61.2 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 15.0 10.0 10.4 10.4 4.0 25.0 29.3 25.0 O&M CAP O&M CAP O&M CAP 1995/96 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OT 12.0 OT 10.0 Resources Resources 0.0 0.0 10.2 16.4 10.2 27.7 42.5 66.2 48.2 67.7 31.3 38.5 75.7 153.3 151.2 161.2 10.0 120.2 126.6 834.7 12.0 124.3 61.2 A-Base A-Base Resources 1995/96 A-Base Resources 1996/96 A-Base Resources 1996/96 1.2 1.5 1.0 3.0 2.3 2.3 2.6 0.8 0.0 0.7 3.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.7 0.2 14.7 PYs Salary PYs Salary PYs Salary PYs Salary OT O&M CAP 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% % % Arctic Arctic 1410 1533 1533 1532 1533 1533 1533 1532 1531 1534 1534 1530 1534 1534 1534 1533 1533 4th 4th Leader Leader Munawar BUM Servos Borgmann Munkitirick Nlirni Servoshluesils Munidttrick Mak Mimi Servos servos sergeant While Whittle Whittle 2000 Cooley 2122 2103 2104 2114 2115 ------IDN IDN 2921-2100 2921-2101 2921-2102 2921 2920 2921-2116 2921-2118 2921-2121 2921 2921-2125 2921 2921-2105 2921-2106 2921-2109 2921-2111 2921 2921 A, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries end Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries - Toxicity VVorkshcp CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-1996 BUDGET BUDGET 1995-1996 REGION: & ARCTIC CENTRAL DIRECTORS OFFICE: GLLFAS OFFICE: DIRECTORS ECOTOXICOLOGY DIVISION (GLLFAS) ECOTOXICOLOGY DIRECTORS OFFICE: GLLFAS DIRECTORS OFFICE: Project Title Director's Office Identification of Sublethal Effects and DoecIlve Components of ECOTOXICOLOGY DIVISION Ecotoxicology Division Program Delvery Food Web Structure end Dynamics - L Ontario& Erie trophIc tr. Food Chain Dynamics rod Contaminant Elloaccumulation Toxicant Idenliftcation using Aquatic Invertebrates ErMronmental Pathways and Rernediation Development of Curulative Effects Methodology Ecotoxicology Division Bioassay Laboratory Great Lakes Contaminants Survellance Program Great Lakes Fisheries Spedrnen lark Ullratrace Lab and Contaminants Research Contaminants Infomialion System - Oracle Database Aquatic Assessment of Threshold Exposure Levels for Biological Effec Chemical Fate end Effects In Aquatic Ecosystems Temporal end Spatial Trends of Toxic Contaminants In Great L. 217 232 234 231 225 228 222 224 220 221 233 229 230 226 227 223 219 page Project Title page Project fu 8 a -o so DFO CENTRAL & ARCTIC REGION: 1995-6 PROJECT INVENTORY as of August 20, 1995 C FISH HABITAT STUDIES DIVISION (GLLFAS) A-Base Resources 1995/98 Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Total
page Project Title ID !/ Leader 4th % PYs Salary OT O&M CAP PYs Salary O&M CAP source e nt Arctic ral &
237 Fish Habitat Studies DkAsion - Program Delivery 2990-0000 Cairns 1410 0% 0.7 45.2 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.2
87.4 A 238 The Occurrence of Tumors In White Sucluns/Brovm Bullhef 2990.0001 Cairns 1111 0% 0.3 20.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 67.2 0.0 lc Bbrnonitoring In Turkey Lakes (TIM and Pony Sound Reg 2990-0004 Shaw 1534 0% 0.7 26.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 22.0 81.0 0.0 LRTAP 129.3 239 rcti LRTAP 74.8 240 Turkey Lakes Calibrated Watersheds 2990-0005 Kelso 1530 0% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 17.8 50.0 7.0
LRTAP 19.6 c R 241 Response of Ontarb Lakes to Varying Abnospheric Depose 2990-0005 Kelso 1534 0% 0.1 9.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 8.5 2.0 0.0 0.0 LRTAP 108.5 242 Integrated Regional Risk Assessment and Modelling - IRV 2990.0009 Minns 1534 0% 0.1 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0
95.0 0.0 SF, UoT 274.1 e 243 Lake Ontario/Ede Blomonitoring Project 2990-0011 Johannsson 1536 0% 3.7 179.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 55.7 gi 244 Lake Trout Restoratbn 2990.0013 Fitzsimons 1531 0% 0.6 31.2 0.0 24.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 on S 0.0 CLAP!! 51.2 245 Impact of Quagga MUM*11 on Production of Benthic Comm 2990-0016 Dermott 1536 0% 0.8 41.2 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 SF 208.0 246 Product)." Capacity of Littoral Habash 2990-0017 Randall 1531 0% 2.1 121.0 0.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.0
0.0 15.0 0.0 SF 79.4 ci 247 Project Mkt' 2990-0015 Millard 1530 0% 1.2 64.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0 91.7 enc 248 Ecology of Littoral Young of the Year Fishes, Southwestern 2990-0019 Leslie 1536 0% 1.8 83.7 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 GLFC 132.2 249 Sea Lamprey Habitat RelatbnshIps 2990.0021 Kelso 1536 0% 0.5 26.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 105.5 0.0
GLFC 68.9 e S 55 Defitnsble methods for pre/post-development assessemnts 2745-3004 Minns 1513 0% 0.2 16.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 52.0 0.0 800.0 0.0 GLCuF, othe 832.1 250 Restoration of Fish and Fish Habitat In Hamilton Harbour 2930-3011 Cairns 1531 0% 0.5 32.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 is 30.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 770.0 0.0 GLCuF 800.6 ect al 251 Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup - Lake Superior and &Maris R 2932-3213 Kelso 1531 0% 0.5 ea■
a or .... Non-A-Base Resources 1995/96 Total ..4 • A-Base Resources 1995/98 PYs Salary OT O&M CAP PYs Salary O&M CAP Resources FISH HABITAT STUDIES DIVISION 13.7 736.2 0.0 81.5 0.0 1.0 48.3 2,200.7 7.0 3,073.7 page ProjectTitle 253 256 255 254 SHIPS: launches(IncludingTheShark) SHIPS: Limnos SHIPS: Lauber SHIPS: AdmInkstratlon SHIPS SHIPS (GLLFAS) CENTRAL &ARCTICREGION:1995-6PROJECTINVENTORY 2514-1401 2512-1201 2511.1101 2510-0001 ID # Lewis LevAe Lewis levee Leader 4th 1413 1413 1413 1413 Arctic % 0% 0% 0% 0% PYs SalaryOT0&MCAP PYs SalaryOT0&MCAP 12.9 10.6 34.1 1,157.0263.0610.520.0 9.0 1.6 A-Base Resources1995/96 A-Base Resources1995/96 377.0 475.6 235.8 68.6 160.0 89.0 14.0 0.0 345.7 167.8 40.0 57.0 10.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 Non-A-Base Resources1995/96 PYs Salary PYs Salary 0.0 186.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Non-A-Base Resources1995/96 186.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0&M CAP 0&M CAPsource 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 as ofAugust20,1595 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 NSERC Resources 2,237.2 Total Total 991.3 689.3 434.0 122.6
Jopas aouaps uo!6al opiv v leiwao oda Regional Director of Science Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg J. Cooley, A/Director
Program Co-ordinator, EARP, M. Bergmann Arctic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee, T. Shortt DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Office of the Regional Director of Science
The Regional Director of Science manages all of the Science Sector elements (exclusive of Hydrography) in the Central and Arctic Region (Ontario, Prairie Provinces, NWT). Staff in the office include a Secretary and a Program Co-ordinator. Permanent (A-Base) FTEs responsible to the Regional Director of Science in 1995 are in excess of 160 (excluding Ships Personnel) before Program Review reductions.
Primary clients are the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and senior departmental managers responsible for developing DFO positions and policies on major environmental and fisheries issues in inland and arctic waters.
Secondary clients are resource managers in DFO and in the Arctic, the native fishery and wildlife management boards (FJMC, NWMB). External clients are provincial governments, industry (e.g. hydroelectric utilities), and other federal departments including (DIAND, DEMR, DOE, DOA, DOT, and Coast Guard).
Other external clients include bilateral commissions (International Joint Commission, Great Lakes Fishery Commission), which receive advice and technical support for resolving environmental and fisheries issues in the Great Lakes; provincial research scientists, and management biologists on Lake Committees; corporate committees dealing with national and international issues.
Ultimate clients are the resource users such as natives, fishermen and industry groups, and the marine transportation industry.
The Regional Director of Science is headquartered in Winnipeg. The major laboratories reporting to this position are in Winnipeg (Freshwater Institute Science Laboratory) and in Burlington (Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences). Research takes place throughout Ontario, Prairie Provinces and NWT and Canadian waters bounding these areas.
page 19 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Regional Director of Science, Central & Arctic ID #: 2900-0000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Cooley, J.M. Arctic content (est) 50% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1411 (Executive and Regional Science Management) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DG Central & Arctic, Headquarters Senior staff in the Science sector, other Federal depts (e.g. DIAND, DOE) involved in arctic programs, provincial fisheries agencies in the region, DFO Fish Management sectors in the Region. Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 3.0 177.6 466.2 17.9 6.0 0.0 667.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 667.7 Totals: 3.0 177.6 466.2 17.9 6.0 0.0 667.7 L Description Head and coordinate all of the region's Science Sector programs; manage the fiscal resources and personnel for all three Science Sectors. Attend national and regional Science meetings. A 3% "tax" is applied to all soft money (sunset) programs to be redirected to unfunded priorities as needed. Management of Science Sector accounts. Represent region on National Science Directors Committee and the Science Sector on the Program Management Team. Coordinate regional science input to national programs including: AFSAC, PERD, LRTAP, Sustainable Fisheries and Brander-Smith. Science input includes representation on committees, development of regional proposals with Science staff, procurement of funds, and completion of mid-year and year-end reports as required. The Directors office in Winnipeg is comprised of the Director, a secretary, and a program coordinator. Reporting to the Director are 5 Division Managers in Burlington & Winnipeg.
Expected Results I Deliver on regional Science Sector programs. Coordinate output on a national level. Complete annual regional Science Project Inventory Report. Provide advice to RDG and Senior Managers in HQ. Develop and implement a plan to meet target reduction as dictated by the Program Review-regarding probable transfer of Freshwater Program to DOE. Manage within resource levels allocated to Science work activities.
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Project Information
Title: AFSAC ID #: 2960-6000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Shoat, T. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1411 (Executive and Regional Science Management) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Management, Arctic Resource Management Boards
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 2.0 120.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 120.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0:0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 120.2 Totals: 2.0 120.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 120.2 I Description The Arctic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee (AFSAC) is an internal scientific review body which provides scientifically - based management advice and research recommendations on a large number of Arctic fish and marine mammal species and stocks. The management advice is based on the most current scientific information available , often in the form of unpublished results from ongoing studies AFSAC consists of two Subcommittees: the Fish Subcommittee and the Marine Mammals Subcommittee. AFSAC serves managers in both C&A and Quebec region in responding to requests for advice from DFO resource managers and those from the Arctic Resource Management Boards.
Expected Results I Annual reports are forwarded to the RDG, RD Science and RD Fisheries Management on the results of the stocks/species reviewed by the subcommittees at their annual meetings. A biennial report is also published in the manuscript report series. Reports are also generated by AFSAC in response to issues referred to it throughout the year as they arise.
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Project Information
Title: EARP/CEAA - Science ID #: 2961-6100 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Bergmann, M. Arctic content (est) 10% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1130 (Ocean Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO Habitat Management and Habitat Science Biologists in Winnipeg & Burlington
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 EARP 0.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 40.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 I Description Science support under EARP/CEAA including Science staff participation in EIA reviews and travel to hearings. Activities include the coordination of Environmental Impact Assessment review materials between Science and Habitat Management staff. Funds are allocated in support of program support, literature studies, reviews of regulatory information, training of staff in stream hydrology and habitat assessment techniques. Funding levels have been decreased from $110K to $40K over two years. Although EARP funding has only been approved to the end of FY 96/97, funding for Environmental Assesment work in fisheries related activities is required. Discussions between DFO, DOE, and the provinces continue on this matter.
Expected Results
Science staff attendance at meetings related to EARP/CEAA activities. Timely delivery of EIA materials by regional Science reviews to Habitat Management staff. Support to regional staff for EARP/CEAA activities. Reports generated from various project objectives are published and distributed to clients. Report topics include: sediment toxicity, contaminants, hydro impacts, and habitat assesment.
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Project Information
Title: Recovery of the Arctic Biological Station ID #: 2966-6601 Region: Database Scientist/Manager: Bergmann/Chiperzak, M./D. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) nil
Clients: DOE, DFO, CCG, DFO Habitatat Management, DFO Quebec Region
Financial Information
(All money figures are in SK) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 BS 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 15.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0
Description
This project is being funded under the Brander-Smith Marine Environmental Emergencies Program and is designed to recover the DFO Arctic Biological Station marine database which was archived on a magnetic tape approximately 5 years ago. This physical, chemical and biological database contains valuable information collected through the 1960's and 70's on the Beaufort Sea, Northwest Passage and the eastern Arctic; and is in danger of being lost due to the lack of accessability and lack of information about the contents of the tape. This project will be done mainly on contract. The dat will be linked to existing reports and be GIS compatible. This data will compliment the activities being carried out by the AFEAR and Arctic Ecosysyems sections. Two years of funding have been made available for this sproject
Expected Results
Recovery of data into useable format and division of data into functional datasets. Included in the objectives is the conversion of data variables to PC format (Microsoft Office) and documentation of datasets.Depending on the difficulties encountered in the fractionation of the data from the magnetic tape, some data manipulation will be performed. A report which describes all databases and parameters listed will be generated. A summary report will also be completed by March 1997.
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Project Information
Title: Hudson Bay - Habitat Sensitivity Mapping ID #: 2966-6602 Region: (Brander-Smith - MEE)
Scientist/Manager: Bergmann, M. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DOE, DFO Hydrography, CCG, DFO Habitat Management, DFO Quebec Region
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 BS 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.0 0.0 0.0 19.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 19.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.0 0.0 0.0 19.0 L Description Two new regional projects are being funded by the Green Plan - Marine Environmental Emergencies Program. The first project is the recovery of the Arctic Biological Station Database under scientist/manager D.Chiperzak. The second project involves the mapping of marine habitat sensitivity data for the Hudson Bay area. This information will provide users with a GIS-based dataset which will allow them to accurately assess environmental emergencies and to gain valuable scientific perspective of regional fish and marine mammals resources. The data are collected from existing archived reports and publications dating back to 1960. The data will focus on biologigal information collected by govemement and non-government agencies. The project has been funded for two years. This project will be done primarily by DFO science staff with the support of contract in personnel as required.
Expected Results
Inventory and compilation of all reports containing available habitat sensitivity data from the Hudson Bay/James Bay area related to fish and marine mammals. The information contained in these reports will be made available in a GIS structured format and a complete user manual is to be published by March 1997. The information contained in the report will provide clients with an accurate perspective of marine habitat resources in the area and can be used to make informed decisions on environmental issues.
page 24 Fish Habitat Management Division Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington J. Stein, Manager DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector
Fish Habitat Management Division
Habitat management activities are conducted in several different units within the Central and Arctic Region. The Habitat Management Division is located in Winnipeg, while habitat biological staff are also in lqaluit and Yellowknife, N.W.T., and in Burlington , Ontario.The Habitat Management Division is the regional focus for habitat initiatives and provides functional guidance and assistance to the other units.
The Habitat Management Division develops conditions, positions or advice necessary to protect fish and marine mammals and their habitats from the effects of industrial proposals. Advisory responsibilities relate to various steering committees. Clients include DFO headquarters, DIAND, AECB, DPW, DOE, CEAA, EACC, IERC, provincial and territorial governments, industry and the general public. Field and laboratory activities are conducted as resources permit in support of advisory functions, and are designed to collect information on aquatic resources and habitat sensitivity in areas where the impact resulting from industrial development is expected to be severe and where existing knowledge is considered insufficient to manage the habitats effectively. The information is required to conduct reviews and to develop departmental advice, positions, and conditions. Field activities follow a long-term plan which is adapted to respond to major new issues requiring field investigations. Other activities, such as the review of industrial proposals and advice on habitat issues, are conducted on demand.
Staff in area offices review local development initiatives, participate in public reviews, conduct site visits and inspections, consult with local communities and groups on habitat issues, provide public education and information on the sensitivity and values of fish habitat, and support local habitat improvement initiatives.
No Net Loss of habitat is ensured through the staffs continued involvement in the environmental assessment and review process and by conducting various field and laboratory activities, designed to enhance or restore habitat or provide baseline habitat data for areas where significant development activities are anticipated. It is ensured also by the Division's functional guidance of other regional habitat units.
page 25 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Habitat Management - Program Administration ID #: 2708-0800 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stein, J. Arctic content (est) 40% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO HQ OGDs (DND, DOE, DPW, DIAND, Agriculture), provincial and territorial governments, industrial proponents, first nations, environmental interest groups and the general public. Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 4.3 225.0 0.0 140.9 0.0 0.0 365.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 365.9 Totals: 4.3 225.0 0.0 140.9 0.0 0.0 365.9 Description
I The Habitat Management Division develops conditions, positions or advice necessary to protect fish & marine mammals & their habitats from the effects of industrial proposals. Advisory responsibilities relate to various steering committees. Clients include DFO headquarters, DIAND, AECB, DPW, DOE, CEAA, EACC, IERC, provincial & territorial governments, industry & the general public. Field activities are conducted as resources permit in support of advisory functions, & are designed to collect information on aquatic resources & habitat sensitivity in areas where the impact resulting from industrial development is expected to be severe & where existing knowledge is considered insufficient to manage the habitats effectively. The information is required to conduct reviews & to develop departmental advice, positions, & conditions. Field & lab activities follow a long-term plan which is adapted to respond to major new issues requiring field investigations. Other activities, such as the review of industrial proposals & advice on habitat issues, are conducted on demand. Expected Results
I 1. Management & coordination of DFO's fish habitat responsibilities in the prairie provinces & the NWT; 2. Management & delivery of ongoing Habitat Action Plan projects, & other similar CEAA habitat initiatives; 3. Participation on environmental assesssment committees (EACC, REAC, REAC Working Group, AWCC, Oldman Dam FTWG & EMC, AWAC, RODAC, RERC, CPWCC, HQ Management Committees, etc). Staff sit on approximately 27 standing committees which meet on average about twice a year. 4. Publication of 4 technical reports. 5. No field programs are planned for 1995/96. 6. Partcipation in DFO/DOE transfer of freshwater habitat management responsibilities & provincial negotiations. 7. Most of the Divisions mangement resources are utilized to cover administrative costs (telephones, fax, copying, computer support) as well as travel costs for committee meetings, site visits, provincial discussions, etc. All staff training & conference costs are also charged to this budget. page 26
Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Title: Dauphin Lake Stream Rehabilitation Program ID #: 2708-0801 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Broughton, K. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Agricultural landowners participating, residents of the Dauphin Lake basin and agro-Manitoba. Provincial and federal natural resource, environment and agricultural agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 0.2 9.7 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 34.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 35.0 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 84.7 Totals: 0.2 9.7 0.0 40.0 35.0 0.0 84.7
Description
This is a long term cooperative initiative, now entering its 4th year, between DFO, Manitoba Fisheries Branch, the Dauphin Lake Basin Advisory Board & others. Excessive sediment & nutrient loading to the tributaries of Dauphin Lake resulting from stream channelization, degrading manmade drains & cleared riparian corridors has had serious impacts on the fisheries of Dauphin Lake &the health of the watershed. The goal is to rehabilitate riparian zones & unstable stream reaches in the basin to achieve a net gain of productive fish habitats. This is done by construction of instream rock spawning riffles to stabilize the stream bed & banks, fencing & revegetating riparian buffer zones, using rotational grazing plans for livestock, & providing restricted stream side watering sites or offstream watering facilities. Subject to funding, data is being collected yearly to evaluate the rates of recovery of vegetation in the riparian zones, the use of the spawning riffles by walleye & other species, & the effects of the riffles on stabilizing the bed & banks of the streams by monitoring changes in the stream profile & cross-sections.
Expected Results
The program is an ideal example of fish habitat rehabilitation in support of the "Net Gain" objective of DFO's Fish Habitat Management Policy. Stabilized stream channels & rehabilitated riparian zones will restore past losses of fish & wildlife habitat, & reduce sediment & nutrient loading to Dauphin Lake & its tributaries, leading to improved water quality, healthier fish & wildlife populations, & enhanced agricultural, recreational & tourism opportunities. The program is an excellent example of a cooperative partnership in action that can be used as a model for other programs. The results & experience gained through implementation of this program are of interest to other fish & riparian habitat rehabilitation programs being undertaken by DFO & other agencies in the Prairie Provinces & other Regions. The landowners participating in the program will benefit from improved management practices on their farm & be important partners in demonstrating the program's benefits to other landowners in the Dauphin Lake Basin & wider area of agro-Manitoba
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Fish Passage ID #: 2708-0802 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Katopodis, C. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Habitat (conservation, mitigation, compensation), Environment Canada, Public Works, Provincial Fisheries, Highway, Water Resources Agencies, other countries.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 18.9 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 58.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 58.9 Totals: 0.3 18.9 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 58.9
Description
This project consists of laboratory, field, and office studies on fishways, fish screens, instream flow needs for fish, and fish habitat structures (i.e. weirs, deflectors, pools and riffles, meanders). Laboratory studies use scale models to assess the hydraulic characteristics of various fish habitat structures and fishways. Designs that are effective in the laboratory are recommended for field testing. Field studies focus on assessing the effectiveness of fish habitat technologies for various species. Office studies consider literature reviews and data analyses, results from laboratory and field studies, mathematical modelling, and development of expert systems. Study results are generalized and applied to a variety of geographic locations and many fish species.
Expected Results
Complete laboratory testing on pool and weir fishways for large fish species (e.g. sturgeon). Initiate tests on vertical slot fishways. Complete draft reports and papers. Update data bases. The project assists the Central and Arctic Region with Fisheries Act approvals, environmental assessment decisions and the application of the No Net Loss Policy. The results are applicable in the Arctic as well as other parts of the Region. Most of the data are also used by other DFO regions, other Federal and Provincial departments, and other countries.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Ontario Habitat Management Program ID #: 2711-1100 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Metikosh, S. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Proponents (Industry Public), OGD's - Federal (DOE, CCG, PWC, TC), OGD's - Provincial (OMNR, MOEE, MTO, Conservation Authorities, Municipal Government) Financial Information -, I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 2.3 130.7 0.0 51.6 0.0 0.0 182.3 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 182.3 Totals: 2.3 130.7 0.0 51.6 0.0 0.0 182.3
Description
The Ontario Area Office provides the fishery operations focus for DFO in Ontario. It comprises a habitat management function, & liaison with the province on all fishery management issues. Direction & supervision are provided to the 4 major program thrusts consisting of: a) The cooperative habitat management program with the Province of Ontario; b) A portion of the habitat component of DFO's activitites within the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The habitat management function requires an ongoing liaison & cooperative effort with the Ontario provincial government to ensure the consistent interpretation & application of the DFO Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat in Ontario through the implementation of Canada-Ontario Memorandum of Intent on the Management of Fish Habitat (M01) leading to development of a Canada-Ontario Habitat Management sub-agreement.
Expected Results i 1. Regional advice provided as required on the Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat 2. Area communications initiatives such as the videos, brochures & fact sheets on the Fisheries Act & the Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat implemented in cooperation with Regional Communications Officer. 3. Scientific & technical review of referrals brought forward by federal or provincial agencies pursuant to CEAA & the Fisheries Act coordinated & managed. 4. Site inspections conducted and, in cooperation with OMNR staff, Inspector's directions issued for remedial action pursuant to Section 38(6) of the Fisheries Act. 5. DFO represented on intergovernmental & interdepartmental committees & work groups such as the EACC, Niagara River RAP Team, Fish Habitat & Hydro Work Group, GLFC Sub-Committees & other committees as required. 6. Guidelines, operating procedures & other documents developed by the Central & Arctic Region and/or DFO Headquarters reviewed as required. 7. Canada-Ontario Memorandum of Intent for the Management of Fish Habitat implemented. page 29 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: CEAA Administration ID #: 2730-3000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stein, J. Arctic content (est) 10%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients:
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 CEAA 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 0.0 L Description This project covers the administration costs (telephone, fax, copying, etc.) for CEAA staff as well as travel not related to specific projects (funded separately). It also includes costs related to the maintenance of the electronic refferal registry system (ERRS) and to the training of staff in CEAA procedures and the use of ERRS.
Expected Results
Efficiency and consistant processing of CEAA referals (approximately 1500 per year)
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Fisheries and Oceans
Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector Project Information
Title: Oldman River Dam ID #: 2730-3001 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Bond, W.A. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Ranchers, range managers, fish and wildlife professionals in provincial and federal agencies, resource users.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (AU money figures are in SK)
A-Base 2.0 110.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 110.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 145.2 Totals: 2.0 110.2 0.0 35.0 0.0 0.0 145.2
Description
The Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Project (ARHMP) involves a unique partnership that includes livestock producers, conservation groups, and provincial and federal government agencies. It addresses the widespread degradation of riparian zones and associated fish habitats that has resulted from livestock overgrazing and which is a major issue on North American rangelands. Through a series of demonstration projects that have been established on degraded streams in southwestern Alberta, the ARHMP illustrates principles of proper range management and documents biological changes occurring in riparian zones and upland areas in response to such practices. Changes occurring over time are documented through the development of a photographic reference library as well as by the application of classical stream and range monitoring techniques. The project promotes the objectives and goals of DFO's Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat (1986) and incorporates the implementation strategies outlined therein.
Expected Results
The results of this study will provide a database describing current riparian conditions in southwestern Alberta (primarily in the Oldman River sub-basin), and will facilitate the monitoring of changes over time. The long-term goal is improved watershed management, healthy, functioning riparian systems, and a net increase in productive fish habitat as mandated in DFO's Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat (1986). These results will be applicable throughout the Great Plains and where ever riparian degradation is an issue. Overgrazing by cattle has been identified as the most pervasive influence on native ecosystems in western North America - its detrimental impacts are magnified in riparian areas. These results will be used as an educational tool to influence ranchers to adopt proper range management practices and to advise the general public of the importance of riparian systems. The primary users of this information will be ranchers, range managers, and fish and wildlife professionals throughout Central and Arctic Region and other regions where cattle are grazed.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: EARP - Uranium Mines ID #: 2730-3002 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Fallis, B.W. Arctic content (est) 12.5%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Atomic Energy Control Board; Cameco Corporation; Cogema Resources Inc.; Cigar Lake Mining Co.; Rio Algom Mines Ltd.; Denison Mines Ltd.; Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management - Industrial Board Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.1 65.7 10.0 32.0 0.0 0.0 107.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 107.7 Totals: 1.1 65.7 10.0 32.0 0.0 0.0 107.7
Description
The provision of Departmental advice concerning the implications of uranium mining activities in Ontario and Saskatchewan to fish and fish habitat. Information generated by DFO scientists and their expertise relating to various aspects associated with the operating environment of uranium mines (hydrology, toxicology, radiochemistry, fish and invertebrate biology, sediment chemistry and water quality) is utilized to evaluate development and decommissioning proposals.
Expected Results
The provision of advice to EARP Panels, the Atomic Energy Control Board, other federal and provincial government departments and the environment departments of several major uranium mining companies (Rio Algom Limited, Cogema Resources Inc., Denison Mines Ltd., Cameco Corporation, Cigar Lake Mining Corporation) leads to enhanced protection of fish and fish habitat from the physical and chemical implications of uranium mining activities. Such advice influences the granting of approvals for the commencement of project development as well as the terms and conditions of operating licences and associated environmental monitoring programs.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Alberta EARP ID #: 2730-3003 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hopky, G. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Alberta, other federal departments, municipalities, Indians, proponents, NGOs, citizens
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (Alf money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 CEAA 3.0 152.7 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 202.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 207.9 Totals: 3.1 157.9 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 207.9 Description I Recent court decisions (Rafferty, Oldman) greatly increased the repsonsibilties of DFO under the former EARP Guidelines Order. Where DFO was not previuosly involved in fish habitat issues in Alberta, it became responsible for providing habitat advice to other federal departments, pursuant to the EARP. Even when EARP was not initiated, increased public awareness and clarification from the courts (Oldman) of habitat management responsibilities, and development of Canada-Alberta environmental assessment harmonization agreements, has required DFO to become actively involved in review of Alberta projects with potential to harmfully affect fish habitat. The proclaimation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in January, 1995, set DFO responsibilities in law and further expanded DFO's assessment duties in Alberta.
Expected Results
Specific outputs include: 1. Administration of the habitat protection provisions of the Fisheriies Act in Alberta to protect fish and fish habitat. 2. Implement the Habitat Policy in Alberta, including guidelines, public communication, inventory and monitoring. 3. Reviews, develops and delivers positions for Alberta-based projects, up to and including those subject to review by public panels, including managing DFO's responsibilities as a Federal or Responsible Authority under CEAA 4. Coordinates trans-boundary projects and/or issues. 5. Management of the DFO/CEAA referral registry system.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Saskatchewan/Manitoba EARP ID #: 2730-3004 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Fisher, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) nil
Clients: Industry (mining, forest harvesting, pulp and paper, energy devevelopmets, agricultural developments, etc.); Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, WED, HRD. Provincial Fisheres and Environment departments . Financial Information
(All money figures are in Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0 0.0 0.0 13.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 2.3 111.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 111.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 124.1 Totals: 2.3 111.1 0.0 13.0 0.0 0.0 124.1
Description
Provides staff and necessary support to DFO's involvement in industrial development proposals under EARP and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in Saskatchewan and Manitoba..
Expected Results
1. Provision of advice on Saskatchewan/Manitoba referrals. 2. Management of the Saskatchewan/Manitoba registry system. 3. Departmental reviews and positions developed and delivered for projects subject to review by public panels. 4. Development of Guidelines.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: DOJ Legal ID #: 2730-3005 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stein, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) nil
Clients:
Financial Information I (All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 CEAA 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 Description I
When inland provinces lay charges under the Habitat provisions of the Fisheries Act they normally turn the case over to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution. DOJ frequently uses private barristers to process these cases and charges DFO accordingly. This project provides the funding necessary to cover these charges.
Expected Results I Legal invoices paid as received.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: BHP Diamonds ID #: 2730-3006 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Allen, R. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients:
Financial Information I
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 CEAA 0.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 0.0
Description
The N.W.T. Diamonds Project (HP) has been reffered by DIAND to a CEAA panel for an environmental Assesment. This project covers the costs associated with data analysis, EIS review, and the preparation and presentation of the DFO position paper. Included as well are travel cost related to site inspection and participation in public hearings, both of which are often in remote locations.
Expected Results I Preparation annd presentation of the DFO position paper. Development of appropriate terms and conditions for the protection of fish and fish habitat. Project monitoring
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Alberta Habitat GIS Project ID #: 2730-3008 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hooky, G. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) nil
Clients: DFO, and other governments including primarily Alberta, proponents (eg. NOVA), environmental consultants, researchers, Northern River Basins Study
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.1 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.0 0.0 0.0 63.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 68.2 Totals: 0.1 5.2 0.0 63.0 0.0 0.0 68.2
Description
To provide resource managers & researchers with databases incorporated into a Geographic Information System (GIS). The Alberta GIS is being developed by DFO in cooperation with Alberta Environmental Protection, Fish, and Wildlife Services (AFWS). Done under contract, this involves the incorporation of many existing computerized databases compiled by govenmental agencies & NGOs. Results include: 1.A GIS software package for Alberta containing numerous databases related to fish, fish habitat, waterbodies, hydrology and water quality, & utilities including manuals describing technical details of their structure, elements and usage; 2.Detailed habitat & fisheries data pertaining to Sylvan Lake and the Alberta Habitat Inventory Program to be used to develop and demonstrate habitat modelling capabilities of the Alberta GIS system; 3.CJFAS data report containing electronic copies of bibliographic fish & fish habitat databasses for "stand alone" use outside of the GIS system, for distribution to OGDs and industry; 4.Input to the conceptual and design stage of the GIS standard adopted by Alberta.
Expected Results
This initiative will support the Sustainable Fisheries objectives by enhancing program delivery in support of the Habitat Policy and shared obligations under the federal and provincial environmental assessment processes. Specific applications will include a readily available inventory of biological and habitat specific information, capability to track habitat losses and gains, map development locations and areas of impact to assist in project referral decision-making and to assist in assessment of cumulative effects on fish and fish habitat. The Alberta GIS system will allow federal as well as provincial habitat and assessment personnel to have at their disposal relevant information databases and analytical capability to enhance habitat and assessment program delivery. If implemented, we will have assisted Alberta Fish and Wildlife in development of its provincial standard. All GIS system data will be readily transposable to whatever Alberta GIS standard is developed.
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Project Information
Title: DFO/Manitoba Fish Habitat Management GIS ID #: 2730-3009 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Broughton, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) nil
Clients: Provincial and federal fish habitat management OGDs (e.g. EC, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration,environmental assessment agencies). Proponents of developments, consulting firms
Financial Information
(All money figures are in 5K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.1 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.9 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 24.9 Totals: 0.1 4.9 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 24.9
Description
Federal & provincial fish habitat management staff require easy, expedient access to information on fish, fish habitat & related information in support of habitat management decision making. The DFO-Manitoba Fish Habitat Management GIS database is being developed by DFO in partnership with Manitoba Fisheries Branch (MFB) to meet this need. The GIS integrates existing fish & fish habitat related information with digital topographic map data & other spatially referenced databases (e.g. water quality, hydrology, existing developments) into a PCArclnfo database. This project is related to similar HAP initiatives underway with Saskatchewan & Alberta which could be integrated in future to enable DFO & its partners to utilize fish & fish habitat information on a watershed or ecosystem basis that is independent of provincial or other regional administrative boundaries.
Expected Results
The GIS database will primarily serve as a database management system used by federal & provincial habitat management staff & other clients for querying & mapping in support of habitat decision making. The database will also improve DFO's & MFB's ability to identify knowledge gaps, both spatial & temporal, & to jointly determine future inventory & monitoring requirements, thus making better use of limited resources. Some modelling & analysis will also be feasible with the more detailed habitat inventory data being collected under other HAP Inventory & Monitoring initiatives. GIS database development is important as a means to meet a primary goal of the Habitat Action Plan to synthesize & expand fish habitat related databases in order to better determine the extent of habitat gains & losses & to make defensible habitat management decisions. As a partnership between DFO & MFB, the project is also an example of DFO's commitment to work cooperatively with provincial agencies to improve the consistency & efficiency of shared habitat management responsibilities
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Project Information
Title: Ontario Habitat/CEAA Referral ID #: 2731-3101 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Metikosh, S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) nil
Clients: Proponents (Industry Public), OGD's - Federal (DOE, CCG, PWC, TC), OGD's - Provincial (OMNR, MOEE, MTO, Conservation Authorities, Municipal Government)
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 EARP 3.1 154.0 0.0 110.0 0.0 0.0 264.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 264.0 Totals: 3.1 154.0 0.0 110.0 0.0 0.0 264.0
Description
The review of projects affecting fish habitat on the Great Lakes and in the inland water of the Province of Ontario in accordance with the habitat protection provisions of the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act is a major focus of the Ontario Area Office.
Activities include review and approval of projects affecting fish habitat in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; fulfilling the role of both initiator and specialist department in the CEAA review of projects; and intervention at hearings and particpation on joint Canada-Ontario EA Board/CEAA Panels as required
Expected Results
Scientific and technical reviews conducted on approximately 250 habitat referrals brought forward by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, other federal and provincial agencies, or the private sector. Environmental impact of the undertakings assessed in compliance with the requirements of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act . Specialist department advice provided on fish and fish habitat to other Responsible Authorities. Fishery resources and fish habitats protected in accordance with the habitat protection provisions Fisheries Act and the Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat. DFO staff trained in environmental assessment and habitat evaluation methods and mitigation and compensation techniques necessary to implement the habitat protection provision of the Fisheries Act, and Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Class Screening Reports developed for specific projects according to Section 19 of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
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Title: Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Project ID #: 2745-0001 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hopky, G. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Alberta Fish and Wildlife Services, Alberta Public Lands, Trout Unlimited Canada, the Alberta and Canadian Cattle Commissions, and local livestock producers.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 166.0 0.0 0.0 166.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 176.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 176.0 0.0 0.0 176.0
Description
This project is designed to protect & restore fish habitat through pilot projects which demonstrate riparian grazing principles. In this regard the program involves the following steps: 1. Establish project sites in southwestern Alberta to demonstrate management options Which enhance & sustain riparian habitat for fish & wildlife; 2. Conduct resource inventories & mapping to establish baseline conditions; 3. Plan & implement grazing prescriptions; 4.Evaluate & monitor riparian sites & related fish habitats; and, 5. Conduct tours & field days for livestock producers. Steps 1 & 2, & part of steps 3 & 4 have been completed to date. Five project sites have been identified & arrangements have been finalized for continued access, use, & cooperation of livestock producers. As necessary background work, current range management practices have been documented
Expected Results
This program has, & will continue to be directly related to the objectives outlined in the partnerships component of the Action Plan for Fish Habitat. More specifically, objectives include: the formation of partnerships with NGO's, community groups, the livestock production industry, & Alberta provincial government agencies, to achieve the common goal of conserving & enhancing fish habitat & productivity; encouraging shared stewardship & integrated resource management of range lands & riparian areas; & establishment of organizational infrastructures needed to continue these efforts after the four year period ends. These initiatives, have, & will continue to be accomplished with funds provided from a variety of sources
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Project Information
Title: Northern Rivers Study ID #: 2745-0002 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Pryznyk, G. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: First Nations, OGD's (DOE, DIAND), NWT Government
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0. 0 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 5.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0
Description
The Northern Rivers Basin Study (NRBS) is a multi-year (ends on March 31/96) study of the riverine ecosystems of the Peace, Athabasca & Slave river basins. The purpose is to assess the cumulative effect of development on the aquatic environment of these river systems by examining a broad range of research & data inventory problems. The program relies on its own funding & on extensive partnership arrangements with other parties through the creation of companion studies. This project plans to implement companion studies with the NRBS in 2 areas: 1. A fish & fish habitat investigation of the Slave River, within the NWT.; and, 2.A study of habitat utilization by fish in a mainstem river (e.g. Peace) versus tributary streams. The Northern Rivers Study project is intended to build on the tremendous time & financial investments made by the NRBS in addressing fish habitat issues in these very large river basins, where ongoing development proposals continue to outpace our ability to provide sound fish habitat advice. Expected Results I 1.A synthesis report on the life history, movements & habitat utilization of an important commercially & domestically harvested species [inconnu (Stenodus Ieucichthys), burbot (Iota Iota), walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum)] from the lower Slave River. 2. A synthesis report on the comparative dynamics of habitat utilization & food chain relationships of fish species from mainstem rivers & tributary streams. 3. Development of increased 'in-house' expertise on the fish life history & habitat requirements of fish species of Alberta & NWT rivers for use by DFO habitat managers.
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Project Information 41•1111=1111111111MININIMMIII■11 Title: Habitat Action Plan: Alberta Bull Trout ID #: 2745-0003 Region: Preservation and Public Education
Scientist/Manager: Hopky, G. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Alberta Fish and Wildlife, Alberta Parks, Trout Unlimited, Trans-Alta Utilities, Parks Canada, Calgary Zoo, NGOs
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 43.0 0.0 0.0 43.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 53.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 53.0 0.0 0.0 53.0
Description
The purpose of this ongoing project is to form partnerships with the clients for the purpose of conserving and enhancing bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and bull trout habitat in the province of Alberta. This partnership will focus on increasing public awareness and education regarding bull trout and bull trout habitat, and facilitating the recovery of bull trout in Alberta. As a result of significant declines in Alberta bull trout populations, they are a priority management species, and listed as a "vulnerable species" by the Committee On the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEVVIC).
Expected Results
This program has, and will continue to be directly related to the objectives outlined in the partnerships component of the Action Plan for Fish Habitat. More specifically, objectives include: the formation of partnerships with NGO's, community groups, and other governments to achieve the common goal of conserving and enhancing bull trout and their associated habitat; encouraging shared stewardship in the survival of bull trout and their associated habitat; and enhancement of organizational infrastructure needed to continue these efforts after the four year period ends. These initiatives, have, and will continue to be accomplished with funds provided from a variety of sources. Specific outputs include: 1. Maintenance of an effective, coordinated, cooperative partnership among DFO and the clients for the purpose of enhancing bull trout and associated habitats; 2. Facilitation of the recovery of bull trout in Alberta; 3. Readily accessible, interactive, educational software that will increase public awareness and knowledge regarding bull trout and bull trout habitat.
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Project Information
Title: Sturgeon Rehabilitation ID #: 2745-0006 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stein, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated - vessel time) 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) nil
Clients: First Nations, Manitoba Government, Public Interest Groups
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 15.0 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0
Description
The lake sturgeon has historically been and continues to be, a unique and important fish in Manitoba. Unfortunately its unusual biology has not allowed it to withstand high harvest & habitat alteration since European settlement, and stocks have been decimated in many parts of the province over the last hundred years. The population continues to face threats of overharvest by commercial & aboriginal fishing & habitat alteration. Some are in danger of irreversible damage. Manitoba established a Sturgeon Management Working Group charged with developing a sturgeon management plan to provide assessments of the sturgeon stocks in the province, describe the problems that each face, & propose realistic management goals and suggestions for action. The success of the plan will depend largely on the development and success of various public education and communication tools designed to create an awareness of the plight of sturgeon stocks & support for their protection & rehabilitation. DFO is committed to the Working Group to develop or assist in developing these tools.
Expected Results
1. Translation of the Central and Arctic brochure lake Sturgeon in the Prairie Provinces from English to Cree was completed under the 1994/95 Habitat Action Plan. 2. Production of a lake sturgeon video focusing on the status of the species in Manitoba, sturgeon biology, habitat requirements, commercial and native fisheries and threats to critical habitats. 3. Development of a communicaitons strategy to promote public awareness of the plight of sturgeon in the province and support for conservation measures. 4. Publication of a periodicnewsletter featuring articles on sturgeon research and habitat management initiatives to promote coordiantion and cooperation between provinces/states on sturgeon issues. 5. Sponsorship of a national/international workshop on sturgeon research and habitat mangement issues in 1996/97.
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Project Information
Title: Ontario Habitat Restoration ID #: 2745-0007 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Metikosh, S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) nil
Clients: NGO's and interest groups
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 29.6 Totals: 0.2 9.6 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 29.6
[ Description
The Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat identifies Habitat Restoration as one of the goals through which the overall objective of Net Gain is to be achieved. Fisheries & Habitat Management - Ontario Area has been forced to focus most of their efforts on the goal of Habitat Conservation. Reaching the Habitat Restoration goal can best be achieved through assisting other government agencies & the multitude of interested & active ENGO's with ongoing restoration & enhancement projects. Partnership Agreements will be negotiated with ENGO's, NGO's, provincial government agencies & other interest groups such as Trout Unlimited (Gregory Clarke, Grand River, & Whitemans Creek Chapters), the Black Creek Project, Don River Restoration Project, Operation Clean Humber, lzaak Walton Fly Fishing Club, Canadian Water Resources Association, Credit Valley Conservation Authority, Grand River Conservation Authority, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.
Expected Results
This project was established to provide Grant & Contribution funds to interest groups or quasi government agencies such as Conservation Authorities through partnership agreements. These funds are to serve as "seed" money to support habitat conservation, restoration & enhancement projects undertaken by the various partners. Expected long-term results are to provide an increase in the quantity & quality of fish habitat throughout Ontario by providing interested partners with the financial assistance necessary to start or in some cases complete projects.. Short term results for 1995-96 are to negotiate a minimum of 4 new partnership agreements for habitat conservation & restoration projects in Ontario. Details of these agreements are not known as of this date (July 14, 1995). Discussions concerning partnership agreements are currently underway with several Conservation Authorities & interest groups such as the Friends of Ontario Streams, Chapters of Trout Unlimited, & the lzaac Walton Fly Fishing Club.
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Project Information
Title: Saskatchewan - DFO GIS Development and ID #: 2745-1002 Region: Implementation
Scientist/Manager: Majewski, H. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) nil
Clients: Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management - Fisheries Branch, Department of Fisheries and Oceans - Fish Habitat Management, Forestry Companies, and Proponents of developments, particularly those that require an Environmental Impact Statement.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.3 11.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 44.0 0.0 0.0 44.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 55.5 Totals: 0.3 11.5 0.0 44.0 0.0 0.0 55.5
Description
In order to meet shared responsibilities for fish habitat protection under the Fish Habitat Management Policy, Saskatchewan Environment & Resource Management - Fisheries Branch & DFO -C&A Region has engaged in the development of a fisheries based Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS system is designed to provide quick access to information on fish, fish habitat & existing land use; facilitate habitat mapping & run models which consider cumulative effects of changes resulting from resource developments, resource use, & natural causes. The GIS is currently being used to assist with development proposals pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) & other habitat related projects (ie. inventory, integration of GPS, species richness modelling, etc.). Products which are used by habitat managers & are provided to proponents & other clients upon request include maps displaying fish species distribution, fish habitat information & locations of existing & proposed developments.
Expected Results
The DFO/Saskatchewan Fisheries GIS will provide an easily accessible inventory of fish & fish habitat data that will be used in support of decisions made regarding development proposals. Fish habitat related databases are being expanded in order to better determine the extent of habitat gains & losses, thus facilitating more defensible environmental assessment & habitat management decisions. Integration of site-specific habitat inventory data will facilitate the identification & conservation of critical habitats. As databases are developed & updated, knowledge gaps are easily identified. Limited resources can be utilized to fill only these gaps. Ultimately the integration of fisheries GIS currently under development in the other prairie provinces will enable DFO & provincial fisheries managers to use the available information to promote decisions based on a watershed & ecosystem basis, thus ensuring sustainable fisheries. Another component of the 1995/96 project is an attempt to develop a computer model to determine fish species richness using watershed characteristics. Preliminary work by Saskatchewan Fisheries Branch found a relatively strong relationship between watershed area & species richness. page 45
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Title: Habitat Mitigation Techniques ID #: 2745-1003 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Katopodis, C. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1512 (Program Advancementd & Promotion) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Habitat (conservation, mitigation, compensation), Provincial Fisheries Agencies, other countries
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.3 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 54.3 Totals: 0.1 6.3 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 54.3 { Description I Field test several habitat mitigation works used at hydrotechnical projects such as: irrigation dams, water reservoirs, water control structures, hydroelectric developments, water intakes and highway crossings. Supplement studies conducted under the A-base "Fish Habitat Technology" project. Analyze results and incorporate into design.
Expected Results
-, I Conduct field assessment of fishways at Mannheim Weir and Dunnville Weir #3 on the Grand River, Ontario. Analyze and compare results from this and previous field studies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This project supplements A-base activities and assists with Fisheries Act approvals, environmental assessment decisions and the application of No Net Loss Policy. Most of the results are general and apply to the Arctic as well as other parts of the Region or other DFO Regions.
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Title: Alberta Habitat and Inventory Project ID #: 2745-2002 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hopky, G. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Alberta, Canfor Ltd., Weyerhaeuser Ltd., Manning Diversified Forest Products Ltd., City of Medicine Hat, Northern River Basins Study
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 95.2 Totals: 0.1 5.2 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 95.2 Description I The objective of this ongoing project is to initiate fisheries inventory studies in Alberta in cooperation with Alberta Fish and Wildlife Services (AFWS) and other clients. Baseline habitat inventory data will be collected from areas in Alberta and will contribute to DFO and AFWS database systems. The project will concentrate on areas of anticipated development with focus on filling outstanding data gaps, with the following subprojects: 1. An inventory and characterization of.bull trout spawning habitat from a watershed in the Eastern Slopes Region; 2. The development and implementation of a cooperative fisheries inventory program conducted with the forest industry in the Peace River Region. This involves the collection of habitat inventory data from selected forest management areas. The data collected will help to address serious information deficiencies which have been identified in the DFO's overview of forest harvesting impacts on boreal forests of the prairie provinces; 3. collection of baseline fish and fish habitat data from South Saskatchewan River leading a fisheries management strategy.
Expected Results
This project is linked to other projects under the Sustainable Fisheries Program most notably including: the Alberta GIS Database Project, the Foothill Model Forest Study & the Northern Rivers Study. The rationale is consistent with the first stated objective of the Inventory and Monitoring component of the Action Plan For Fish Habitat: "To obtain information on fish habitat utilization and sensitivity in priority areas (particularly sensitive areas or where development pressure is anticipated) which can be used to support current and future decision making". It promotes shared stewardship and an integrated resource management approach. It will enable DFO to determine if the objectives of the Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat (i.e. No Net Loss) are being achieved. The information from this project will help ensure that sound fisheries resource management decisions are formulated on the basis of best-available information and data. Information will be added to the existing fisheries data bases & may be added to other Sust. Fish.projects (eg. the Alberta GIS). Data will assist DFO in determining if the objectives of the Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat are being realized. page 47
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Title: Encyclopedia of Aquatic Habitats in Central and ID #: 2745-2004 Region: Northern Canada
Scientist/Manager: Fee, E. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1520 (Oceans Programs - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal and provincial fisheries agencies, proponents, general public, NGOs
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.5 83.3 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 88.3 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 55.0 0.0 0.0 55.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 143.3 Totals: 1.5 83.3 0.0 60.0 0.0 0.0 143.3 Description I I This project summarizes information on the structure and function of natural (unperturbed) aquatic ecosystems in central and northern Canada. This is baseline information that is required to assess probable impacts of developments in the region.
Expected Results i Expert-synthesized summaries for the many biotic ecoregions found in central and northern Canada. The information will be organized electronically, initially on a CD-ROM but eventually on the Internet in World Wild Web (VWVW) format. The encyclopedia will contain text, maps, graphs, and tables that support the text, which forms the bulk of the material. Habitat managers will use the encyclopedia as a template for evaluating proposed developments. Industrial proponents will use it to prepare proposals. Finally, it will be an educational resource that the general public will use to improve their knowledge of the freshwater resources in the region.
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Project Information
Title: Great Lakes Habitat Inventory ID #: 2745-2006 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Metikosh, S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: OGD's - Federal (DOE-CWS; DOE Great Lakes Programme), OGD's - Provincial (OMNR, and Conservation Authorities)
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 22.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 117.4 Totals: 0.4 22.4 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 117.4
Description
There have been no attempts to collect & consolidate information on Great Lakes fish habitats since Goodyear et. al. completed their Atlas of the Spawning & Nursery Areas of Great Lakes Fishes in 1982. The data set collected complement existing information that provides very general descriptions on the shorelines, mostly from a geomorphological perspective, & a general land use classification being prepared by OMNR. To address the data gaps that exists on near shore habitats in the Great Lakes, we plan to collect spectral imagery along the shoreline using an airborne sensor. When combined with the near shore fisheries assessment proposed by GLLFAS, we will have a much more complete understanding of the role different habitats play in supporting Great Lakes fish populations, & the relative value of individual patches of habitat. This will provide a much stronger position for the protection of unique or productive shoreline habitats, & assist with the development of compensation & mitigation agreements where harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of habitat can not be avoided
Expected Results
1. Report summarizing results of Durham West watershed-stream habitat studies on Lake Ontario tributaries with a discussion of opportunities & approaches for applying these methods to the Grand River Watershed; 2. Report summarizing results of Bay of Quinte near shore habitat suitability classifications with a discussion of opportunities & approaches for applying these methods to the shore line of Lake Erie; 3. Development of data assembly, sampling & data analyses strategies based on the work conducted in Phase I; 4. Multi agency workshop involving DFO, OMNR, GRCA, DOE & other collaborators to development of data assembly, sampling & data analyses strategies & select candidate sites; 5.Study Protocol describing data assembly, sample collection & data analysis; 6. Aquisition of CASI data from candidate sites along the north shoreline of Lake Erie; 7. Classification of aquired data & preparation of thematic maps will be prepared that illustrate the distribution emergent & submergent vegetation in the littoral zone, as well as substrate types where visible; 8. Report summarizing the results of data collection & analysis at sites selected page 49
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Project Information
Title: Habitat Structures Audit ID #: 2745-2007 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Katopodis, C. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Habitat (conservation, mitigation, compensation), Provincial Fisheries Agencies, other countries.
Financial Information I (All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 102.6 Totals: 0.2 12.6 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 102.6 Description 1 In the field of structural engineering, evaluations of structure functionality, impairment or failure, have a substantial history. This has allowed professionals in this field to develop standardized tests and criteria to assess factors that influence structure design, functionality and failure. Evaluations of artificial stream habitats lack this history, although recognition for this component appears to be increasing. Hundreds of habitat improvement structures have been installed throughout the Central and Arctic Region which offer assessment opportunities. Evaluations of such structures by utilizing or supplementing field data already collected, and by using laboratory tests to establish impairment or failure limits and better understand functional relationships of key design parameters, will allow the development of technically sound design criteria for such structures.
Expected Results 1 Continue data analyses from information gathered on habitat structures in the Region. Conduct selective field surveys to supplement this data base. Continue laboratory work on more typical habitat structures. This project expands A-base activities and allows the generation of data that assist in the evaluation, design, construction and maintenance of typical fish habitat structures. Comparisons of study results between different parts of the Region and other DFO Regions yield more general guides for designing and constructing habitat structures.
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Project Information
Title: Instream Flow Modelling ID #: 2745-2008 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Katopodis, C. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) nil
Clients: Habitat (conservation, mitigation, compensation), Environment Canada, Provincial Fisheries and Water Resources Agencies, Hydroelectric Agencies, other countries.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in SK) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.6 Platform Support B - Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 60.6 Totals: 0.2 12.6 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 60.6 1 Description Increased demand for multiple water uses in several prairie rivers has challenged DFO and Provincial Fisheries Agencies to define instream flow requirements for sustainable fisheries. Several models (e.g. Tennant, Instream Flow Incremental Methodology or IFIM) have been used for instream flow determination in high slope cold water streams. These models assume simplistic unidimensional discharge - depth - velocity - roughness relationships (e.g. IFIM). The use of such models in low slope warm water streams has not been tested. We will test a new two- dimensional model (the CDG-2D) providing a better representation of depth and velocity distributions for different river discharges. This model is suitable to simulate frequently encountered flow phenomena (subcritical & supercritical flows & hydraulic jumps). We will utilize existing data from high slope streams & collect data from the Assiniboine River (low slope) to test, verify, and validate the CDG-2D model and compare the results with other methods.
Expected Results
In cooperation with the "Environmental Analysis" project on the Assiniboine River, conduct field surveys to collect physical and biological data for model testing. In cooperation with Alberta Fish and Wildlife, re-survey one or two sites in Alberta to provide data for the new two-dimensional model (CDG-2D). Test and compare instream flow models. The physical simulation models developed by this project would have wide applicability for all parts of the Region and other geographic locations. The U.S. Group which developed the existing IFIM models is collaborating with in-kind contributions of staff time. The results will assist this and other DFO Regions with Fisheries Act approvals, environmental assessment decisions and the application of the No Net Loss Policy.
page 51
Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Manitoba/Saskatchewan Habitat Inventory ID #: 2745-2009 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Fisher, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1511 (Project Review & Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Provincial resource agencies. Forest harvesting, pipeline construction, road construction, mining, hydro, & recreational development enterprises. Conservation organizations .
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 11.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 61.6 Totals: 0.2 11.6 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 61.6
Description
The objective of this project is to collect fish habitat inventory information in selected watersheds in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The information will be used in the assessment of impacts of development activities on fish and fish habitat. 'The current level of information is inadequate to meet development needs. Habitat inventory information will be collected in cooperation with Saskatchewan Fisheries Branch and Manitoba Fisheries Branch in selected watersheds in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where development activities are likely. Data are collected through field surveys during summer months and interviews with key personnel. These data are compiled along with historical information into a inventory, which is compatible with the Manitoba Fish Inventory and Habitat Classification System and the Manitoba Fisheries GIS (also funded under HAP).
Expected Results
In 1994/95, information on fish distribution, fish habitat and hydrological characteristics of four river/streams in Manitoba was collected. Aerial video footage was collected on 3 streams for identification of obstruction to fish passage and riparian condition. In addition, 300 waterbody questionnaires were completed and critical fish habitat information was collected for 60 waterbodies. In 1995/95, similar inventory information is being collected in watersheds in Manitoba and Saskatchewan which are subject to foresting harvesting and agricultural activity. Information collected from the Saskatchewan inventory will be used in the development of a model to predict species occurrence in streams of various stream order (this is being funded under the Saskatchewan Fisheries GIS project). The inventory information will be available to developers, DFO and provincial fisheries branches and will be used to assess impacts of future development activities on fish and fish habitat and to support habitat management decisions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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Project Information
Title: Intake Screening Guidelines/Data Base ID #: 2745-3002 Region: Development
Scientist/Manager: Katopodis, C. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) nil
Clients: DFO Headquarters, Provincial Fisheries Agencies, Doe, Municipalities, Industry, Users of water intakes, Proponents of development.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 42.6 Totals: 0.2 12.6 0.0 30.0 0.0 0.0 42.6
Description
Through the collaboration of DFO Newfoundland, Central and Arctic and Pacific, develop National Water Intake Screen Guidelines for small (up to 0.125 m3/s), medium (between 0.125 and 5 m3/s), and large (greater than 5 m3/s) water withdrawal systems. This initiative was undertaken in 1993-94. A guideline for small intakes for end-of- pipe screens was printed in 1995. The next phase in the development of National Intake Screen Guidelines is the intake screen guideline to address fish and fish habitat protection at canals and large pipes. This is to be followed in 1996 with a guide for large intakes including hydroelectric plants.
Expected Results
This guideline will address withdrawals of 0.125 m3/s up to approximately 5 m3/s. A literature review and guideline development was undertaken in FY 1994-95. Completion of this guideline is scheduled for this FY. These National Guidelines assist all DFO Regions and Provincial Fisheries Agencies in Fisheries Act approvals, environmental assessment decisions and the application of the No Net Loss Policy.
page 53 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Ontario Codes of Practice ID #: 2745-3003 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Metikosh, S. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1130 (Ocean Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Proponents (Industry Public), OGD's - Federal (DOE, CCG, PWC, TC), OGD's - Provincial (OMNR, MOEE, MTO, Conservation Authorities, Municipal Government)
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): EARP 0.5 24.1 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 74.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 74.1 Totals: 0.5 24.1 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 74.1 L Description The interim policy directive for Section 35(2) of the states that only those projects that result in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat require DFO authorization. There is virtually no documentation available to guide regulatory agencies or proponents in deciding what specific activities result this or what measures provide acceptable levels of mitigation. DFO habitat staff & provincial counterparts must make these determinations on ad hoc basis. Development of activity specific guidelines, manuals, protocols & Codes of Good Practice will result in consistent application of the habitat protection provision of the Fisheries Act, reduce the time required for review of proposals, & focus the efforts of the DFO habitat staff on those projects authorization is required. Guidelines, manuals, protocols, & Codes of Good Practice to assess impact of specific activities on fish & fish habitat, ensure sufficient information is provided to allow DFO & OMNR to make regulatory decisions, & to identify methods to mitigate impacts of specific activities will be developed.
Expected Results
Development of Guidelines & Codes of Practice in Ontario is dependent upon partnerships with other OGDs & non- Government Organizations & driven by the priiorities of these groups. Areas where the need for Guidelines & Codes of Proctice has been identified & where interest has been shown include: 1. Review Road Maintenance Projects; 2. Stormwater Management for Ontario Highways; 3. Resolution of Conflicts Between Agricultural Drain Construction & Maintenance & Fish Habitat Protection; and, 4. Reservoir Operating Regimes Depending on the level of cooperation & interest shown by the respective agencies & interest groups, guidelines will be developed for each of the topics outlined above.
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Fisheries and Oceans
Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector Project Information
Title: Defensible methods for pre/post-development ID #: 2745-3004 Region: assessemnts in Great Lakes habitats. A Manual. Scientist/Manager: Minns, K. C. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1513 (Policy and Regulation Development) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO Fish Habitat Management Division, Provincial Fish Habitat Management Agencies
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 16.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.9 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 GLFC 0.0 0.0 0.0 52.0 0.0 0.0 52.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 68.9 Totals: 0.2 16.9 0.0 52.0 0.0 0.0 68.9 , Description I I This project will produce a procedural manual for DFO Fish Habitat Management Branch which will provide scientifically defensible guidelines for designing habitat projects, selecting sampling methods and showing how data should be used to assess productive capacity and net gains/losses. The manual will be developed using a combination of systems analysis and modelling techniques. Sampling methods will be evaluated for ability to reliably and accurately measure fish and habitat features. Survey designs will accommodate size range and characteristics of development proposal. The project is jointly funded by DFO science and DFO operations.
Expected Results I The long term objective is to prepare a technical manual of methodological guidelines for Great Lakes littoral fish habitats covering: a) pre-/post-development in situ surveys of fish and fish habitat and b) estimation of pre-existing productive capacity and net gains/losses for developments. Part I of the manual will provide a guide to appropriate survey methods, statistical advice, and interpretation of fish habitat measures obtained, and a menu of protocols for adequate survey designs applicable to assessing proposed habitat alterations. Part II will provide a procedure for evaluating productive capacity and net gain/loss of productive capacity with worked examples for an array of pre- development and mitigation projects. All partners will benefit from the clarification the manual will provide as referral processing will become standardized, defensible, and faster.
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Project Information
Title: Habitat Management - Inuvik District ID #: 2750-5001 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Ferguson, B. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: First Nations, NWT Government, OGD's (DIAND, DOE, DND), industry, general public
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.1 56.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 76.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 76.0 Totals: 1.1 56.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 76.0
Description
The Area Habitat Biologist develops conditions, positions or advice necessary to protect fish and marine mammals and their habitats from the effects of local industrial proposals. Advisory responsibilities relate to various steering committees. Field activities are conducted as resources permit and are in response to local community concerns related to habitat degradation. Other activites include meeting with local communities to discuss habitat issues, participating in public hearings related to development proposals and preparing and presenting educational seminars on fish habitat to local schools or to other interested groups.
Expected Results
This project provides administrative support to the Area Habitat Biologist, including partial payment for telephones, copying, fax machine, distribution of educational materials etc. It also covers some travel costs for site vistis, community or government meetings. Other travel costs are covered by the Habitat Management Division or are included in project specific budgets under EARP/CEAA.
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Project Information
Title: Habitat Management - Yellowknife District ID #: 2750-5002 Region:
Scientist/Manager: McKenna, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Clients: First Nations, NWT Government, OGD's (DIAND, DOE, DND), industry, general public
[ Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 1.3 56.5 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 76.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 76.5 Totals: 1.3 56.5 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 76.5 [ Description
The Area Habitat Biologist develops conditions, positions or advice necessary to protect fish and marine mammals and their habitats from the effects of local industrial proposals. Advisory responsibilities relate to various steering committees. Field activities are conducted as resources permit and are in response to local community concems related to habitat degradation. Other activites include meeting with local communities to discuss habitat issues, participating in public hearings related to development proposals and preparing and presenting educational seminars on fish habitat to local schools or to other interested groups.
Expected Results
This project provides administrative support to the Area Habitat Biologist, including partial payment for telephones, copying, fax machine, distribution of educational materials etc. It also covers some travel costs for site vistis, community or government meetings. Other travel costs are covered by the Habitat Management Division or are included in project specific budgets under EARP/CEAA.
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Project Information
Title: Habitat Management - Nunavut ID #: 2751-0000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Keast, M. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1510 (Habitat Management - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: First Nations, NVVT Government, OGD's (DIAND, DOE, DND), industry, general public
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.1 58.1 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 78.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 78.1 Totals: 1.1 58.1 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 78.1 I, Description I The Area Habitat Biologist develops conditions, positions or advice necessary to protect fish andmarine mammals and their habitats from the effects of local industrial proposals. Advisory responsibilities relate to various steering committees. Field activities are conducted as resources permit and are in response to local community concerns related to habitat degradation. Other activites include meeting with local communities to discuss habitat issues, participating in public hearings related to development proposals and preparing and presenting educational seminars on fish habitat to local schools or to other interested groups.
Expected Results
This project provides administrative support to the Area Habitat Biologist, including partial payment for telephones, copying, fax machine, distribution of educational materials etc. It also covers some travel costs for site vistis, community or government meetings. Other travel costs are covered by the Habitat Management Division or are included in project specific budgets under EARP/CEAA.
page 58 Arctic Fish & Marine Mammal Division Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg R. Peet, Manager
Arctic Fish Section, J. Reist Arctic Marine Mammals Section, R. Stewart Resource Management Science, R. Moshenko DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Arctic Fish & Marine Mammals Research Division
The Division consists of an Administrative Project and two research Sections - Arctic Fish Ecology and Assessment Research (AFEAR) and Arctic Marine Mammal Ecology and Assessment Research (AMMEAR). The Division is responsible for meeting the Department's mandate for marine and anadromous fish (fin fish, marine mammals, commercially important, invertebrates, etc.) research in the vast and remote areas of Central and Arctic Region. Its main clients are the co-management boards formed under various arctic land claims agreements, DFO resource managers, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans who has new obligations and information requirements under the land claims agreements, and the international scientific community.
The two Sections are organized similarly. They are structured to reflect the nature of the problems to be addressed rather than on species-specific lines. This allows them to apply the best expertise available to a problem, such as stock identity, over a broad range of species. Research staff are in continuous consultation with the resource users, co-managers, DFO managers and international organizations and scientists. These "grass-roots" interactions serve to identify crucial species or stocks requiring examination and can often allow the researchers to anticipate newly emerging fisheries issues at their early stages.
The Division relies on field equipment that ranges from dogs to satellite tags, lab equipment ranging from calipers to DNA amplifiers, and a variety of personal and mainframe computers. Field camps/platforms ranging from tents to chartered vessels are used seasonally according to the particular project and necessary logistics. The Division communicates its findings directly to resource users, co-managers, and other DFO staff and to the greater scientific community through verbal presentations and unpublished written reports, peer-reviewed publications, videos, conference presentations, oral presentations and unpublished written reports. Division staff serve on several international committees (e.g. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Canada/Greenland Joint Commission for the Conservation and Management of Narwhal and Beluga), National (e.g. Marine Mammal Peer Review Committee), and regional committees (e.g. Arctic Fisheries Advisory Committee), review licence applications, contribute to environmental impact reviews, review publications for international journals, and represent the department at international and national meetings and workshops.
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Title: Arctic Fish & Marine Mammals Division ID #: 2970-0000 Region: Planning and Administration
Scientist/Manager: Peet, R. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 50% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) 50% 1114 (Invertebrates and other species) nil
Clients: Scientific Staff of the Division
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 2.0 111.0 0.0 27.4 36.0 0.0 174.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 174.4 Totals: 2.0 111.0 0.0 27.4 36.0 0.0 174.4
Description
This project leads and coordinates the Division's program planning and execution. Based at FWI, it manages the Division's fiscal resources and personnel and ensures scientific audit and quality control of the Division's outputs (primarily reports and publications). It ensure appropriate transfer of information and advice from the Division to internal and external clients. It provides secretarial services to Division researchers and centralized office services, such as photocopying and travel coordination, for the Division. As well it coordinates and optimizes positive publicity for the Division; . The SAS funding amount remains unresolved at this time due to the uncertainty of contracts. Division administration employs networked PC's, photocopiers, FAX machines and Multi-unit telecomunications units to provide these services.
Expected Results
Division Adminsitration aims to facilitate the discharge of scientific duties within the Division. In FY 1995/96, this will include implementing reorganization of research sectors and budget cuts while attempting to ameliorate their possible negative impacts.
page 60 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector
Arctic Fish Ecology & Research Section
The co-management of arctic fisheries resources requires information regarding, and decisions to be made for various aspects of the fishery. This includes activities related to the sociological, political, jurisdictional and practical management of the resource. Underpinning sound decisions for all these aspects is the relevant biological understanding that ideally is gained from a synthesis of traditional and scientific knowledge. The role of the Arctic Fish Ecology and Assessment Research (AFEAR) Section is to gather, synthesize, interpret, and disseminate to relevant partners in an understandable manner the scientific aspect of this knowledge as regards arctic fish of subsistence, commercial or conservation importance at the local and international level.
Although relatively small (currently 10 personnel), the Section approaches this task from an integrated perspective to project management. Four key or critical areas of biological information have been identified - definition of what the management unit is (Stock Identification), how it works to produce more fish (Population Dynamics), how many individuals exist at a given time (Population Abundance), and how these are affected by human actions (Response to Perturbation). Within each of these areas as necessary, the development or adaptation of relevant scientific methods also occurs to allow the activity to proceed. The Section is organized by boundaries of scientific disciplines corresponding to the above four areas, rather than along organismal lines. This means that problems relevant to marine, anadromous, or freshwater fishes (or marine invertebrates of commercial significance) can be addressed by the relevant trained staff.
The primary business of the Section is the development of scientific knowledge by conducting sound and relevant scientific assessment, provision of credible information, and understanding regarding arctic fishes. This understanding is transferred to interested partners via a range of products that form the output of the Section. These products include: scientific publications; unpublished written reports to formal groups such as the Arctic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee (AFSAC), formal co-management boards, and fishery managers; advice in either written or verbal form to the above recipients as well as the resource users; workshops addressing particular issues; posters and educational information to resource co-managers and users; and, participation in community meetings to consider specific issues regarding arctic fishery resources. Another role of the Section is to act as a resource base for review of proposals or activities affecting arctic fisheries and to thus directly contribute to the Department's formal stance on relevant issues.
The various products from AFEAR staff are directed or disseminated to various partners and clients where relevant and as requested or required. These include: 1) resource users and others in the community; 2) Hunters and Trappers groups as formally recognized in Land Claims; 3) co-management organizations as formally recognized in Land Claims; 4) other co- management boards; 5) fishery managers within DFO; 6) other organizational groups and scientists within DFO; 7) other government departments; and 8) the national and international scientific community. Most of the Section's research is driven directly by the needs of the fishery co-management groups and is directly funded from relevant sources pertinent to those groups. The specific co-management boards which are primary clients of AFEAR are: 1) Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, 2) Fisheries Joint Management Committee, 3) Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board, 4) Sahtu Renewable Resource Board.
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Title: Arctic Fish Ecology/Assessment Research - ID #: 2971-7100 Region: Administration Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Scientific Staff of the Division
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 16.9 0.0 32.0 0.0 0.0 48.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 48.9 Totals: 0.3 16.9 0.0 32.0 0.0 0.0 48.9 Description I This project leads and coordinates the Division's program planning and execution based at FWI; it manages the Division's fiscal resources and personnel and ensures scientific audit and quality control of the Division's outputs (primarily reports and publications). It ensures appropriate transfer of information and advice from the Division to internal and external clients; provides secretarial services to Division researchers; provides centralized office services, such as photocopying and travel coordination, for the Division and coordinates and optimizes positive publicity for the Division. The project uses networked PC's, FAX machines and multi-net telecommunications units. The SAS funding amount remains unresolved at this time due to the uncertainty of contracts.
Expected Results
The project aims to facilitate the discharge of scientific duties within the Division. In 1995/96, this will include implementing reorganization of research sectors and budget cuts while attempting to ameliorate their possible negative impacts.
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Project Information
Title: Assessment of Micro-PIXE Analysis of Turbot ID #: 2971-1395 Region: Otoliths
Scientist/Manager: Babaluk, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1112 (Groundfish) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN), DFO fisheries managers
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 12.2 Totals: 0.1 5.2 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 12.2
Description
The project would assess the feasibility and applicability of micro-PIXE analysis of otoliths for differentiation of stocks and determining various life history patterns of turbot that are fished by residents of the Nunavut Settlement Area (NSA). Detailed chemical signatures specific to either spawning areas or rearing areas are laid down in the otolith during development. Analysis of these has the potential for providing information of stock structure as well as for providing for the identification of individuals to their stock of origin.
Expected Results
1. Retrieval of archived turbot otoliths (Cumberland Sound and Davis Strait); 2. preparation of otoliths; 3. micro- PIXE analysis of otoliths; 4. interpretation of results; 5. report assessing feasibility and applicability of micro-PIXE analysis of turbot otoliths for differentiation of stocks and determining life history patterns.
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Project Information
Title: Tagged Broad Whitefish Recovery ID #: 2971-2200 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Babaluk, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) nil
Clients: Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), Gwich'in, Sahtu and DFO fisheries managers
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 8.2 Totals: 0.1 5.2 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 8.2 I, Description During 1992 and 1993 broad whitefish were taged and released in the Mackenzie Delta. All tagged fish were fin clipped; some were also injected with oxytetracycline. Capture and retention of whole tagged, clipped and/or injected fish would allow for assessment of fin ray and otolith age determination methods (age validation). Growth could also be assessed.
Expected Results
An advertising program will be initiated in lower Mackenzie River communities to attempt to get local fishermen to turn in whole tagged broad whitefish. If sufficient numbers of tagged fish are recovered, the validity of age determination methods would be assessed. The processing and analysis of collected materials would be completed. A preliminary report describing the work and results will be prepared (a subsequent scientific publication will be prepared).
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Title: Micro-PIXE Analysis of Broad Whitefish ID #: 2971-4407 Region: Otoliths for Discrimination of Spawning Stocks
Scientist/Manager: Babaluk, J. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board, Inuvialuit Sahtu and DFO Fisheries Managers
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 0.1 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 GVVIC 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 7.2 Totals: 0.1 5.2 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 7.2
Description
The project will assess the feasibility and applicability of micro-PIXE (Proton Induced X-ray Emission) analysis of otoliths for determining the spawning site of individual broad whitefish from the lower Mackenzie River. Detailed chemical signatures specific to the spawning location are laid down in the primordium of the otolith. Analysis of these has the potential for providing information on stock structure as well as for providing for the identification of individuals from mixed-stock fisheries to their stock of origin.
Expected Results I 1. Retrieval of archived broad whitefish otoliths (3 spawning stocks); 2. preparation of otoliths (embedding, sectioning, re-embedding, polishing, imaging, carbon coating); 3. micro-PIXE analysis of otoliths; 4. interpretation of results and reporting of feasibility and applicability of micro-PIXE analysis of broad whitefish otoliths for discrimination of spawning stocks.
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Title: Micro-PIXE analysis of Dolly Varden Char ID #: 2971-4408 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Babaluk, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Department of Canadian Heritage (Parks Canada), Inuvialuit, Gwich'in and DFO Fisheries Managers
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PARKS 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.5 0.0 0.0 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 19.9 Totals: 0.2 10.4 0.0 9.5 0.0 0.0 19.9 L Description I The project will assess the feasibility and applicability of micro-PIXE (proton Induced X-ray Emission) analysis of Dolly Varden char otoliths for determining otolith chemical compositon. Dolly Varden char otoliths from known spawning areas in lvvavik National Park will be analysed. From detailed chemical composition of individual annuli, the timing and duration of major life history events such as anadromy, and structuring into discrete stock will be forthcoming. This technique thus provides a critical tool for fishery managers.
I, Expected Results i . Retrieval of archived Dolly Varden char otoliths; 2. preparation of otoliths (embedding, sectioning, re-embedding, polishing, imaging, carbon coating); 3. micro-PIXE analysis of otoliths; 4. interpretation of results and reporting of feasibility and applicability of micro-PIXE analysis for determining the spawning site of individual char and identifying life history events.
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Title: Greenland Halibut Aging ID #: 2971-7101 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Chiperzak, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1112 (Groundfish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN) Pangnirtung HTA
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.5 0.0 0.0 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 9.5 Totals: 0.1 5.0 0.0 4.5 0.0 0.0 9.5 L Description Obtain ages for Greenland halibut captured from the Cumberland Sound turbot fishery.
Expected Results i Ages for Greenland halibut which would be used in life history and assessment studies.
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Title: Arctic Stock Identification ID #: 2971-7102 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1110 (Fisheries Research - general) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: All arctic fishery co-managers, co-management boards, and fishery resource users; all other researchers and agencies working on arctic fish.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.1 53.6 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 60.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 60.6 Totals: 1.1 53.6 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 60.6 I
This project acts as the A-base umbrella for external projects which address the development of methodology for, and identification of basic units of arctic fisheries management (biological stocks) using both morphological and genetic criteria to relate structuring to both biotic and abiotic parameters. Concepts of genetic population structuring are developed, provided to relevant clients, and their relevance to fishery management indicated. This work is conducted on arctic fish species deemed important by the following criteria: conservation issues, international stock, migratory stock, aboriginal fisheries, and economic potential. Species of primary concern are broad whitefish, Arctic char, Dolly Varden char, and selected marine species (e.g., Turbot). This project maintains the laboratory infrastructure necessary to acquire fish, process fish, collect and analyze morphological data, collect and analyze genetic data (variable enzymes and DNA), and establish and maintain long-term data bases and archived material of arctic fishes for various externally funded projects (e.g., 2971-7117, -7123, -7122, -7121). This project also provided site-specific data of relevance to the companion global genetic diversity project (2971-7108). I, Expected Results Short and long-term expected results include the development and application of appropriate methods for stock delineation and identification for arctic fish of high importance, the provision of this information to the listed clients in either formal or informal verbal (e.g., letters, talks) or written (e.g., unpublished reports, publications) form. These results are of primary importance to the noted clients since they establish the biological basis for the units of fishery management, address issues such as stock mixing and transboundary movement, provide criteria for the identification of fish to taxon and stock, and provide basic information on the levels of morphological and genetic variability present in arctic fish taxa. This latter aspect directly addresses conservation issues for arctic fish thus provides the foundation for the fundamental Departmental mandate. Results for 1995/96 include completion of reports on broad whitefish stock structuring (Mackenzie R.) and re-tooling existing laboratory infrastructure to conduct DNA analyses.
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Title: Arctic Fish Age, Growth and Early Life History ID #: 2971 - 7103 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Babaluk, J. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1110 (Fisheries Research - general) nil
Clients:
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.4 20.8 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 23.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 23.8 Totals: 0.4 20.8 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 23.8
Description
This project conducts research on aspects of life history, dynamics and ecology of Arctic fishes; conducts research relevant to fish aging and growth; development of methodologies to accurately assess such, and provides fish age determination service.
Expected Results
Arctic char, dolly varden char, broad whitefish, turbot, lake trout and lake whitefish will be studied. Arctic fish otolith microstructure examination and analysis (micro-PIXE).
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Title: Hydroacoustic Assessment of Rat River Char ID #: 2971-7104 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Gyselman, E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) nil
Clients: Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.5 27.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 GVVI C 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.7 0.0 0.0 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 35.7 Totals: 0.5 27.0 0.0 8.7 0.0 0.0 35.7
Description
Evaluate the potential of using hydroacoustic techniques to enumerate the run of anadromous Dolly Varden char in the Rat River, NWT. This project, initiated at the FWISL, will assess potential research sites and acoustic characteristics of the Rat R., and important char stocks to the Gwich'in and Inuvialuit. Data will be stored according to new DFO National Standards for storage of hydroacoustic data. The results will be presented to the Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board in the form of a feasibility report.
Expected Results
The feasibility study will provide the data necessary to evaluate the potential of hydroacoustics to enumerate the Dolly Varden char run in the Rat River. Prospective research sites will be identified and evaluated with the expectation that a full assessment study will be done in future years if a suitable site is found. The results will be used primarily by the Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board but will also be available to the Fisheries Joint Management Committee under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. The data may also be used by other researchers in DFO to test new survey designs and hydroacoustic techniques established under the new DFO National Hydroacoustic Program.
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Title: Coastal Zone Research ID #: 2971-7105 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Mathias, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1110 (Fisheries Research - general) nil
Clients: Inuvialuit Wildlife Management Board (NWMB), Heritage Canada and Intl Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGPB).
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.7 53.3 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 57.3 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 57.3 Totals: 0.7 53.3 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 57.3
Description
This project seeks to apply ecological principles to coastal zone management in the Canadian Arctic. It aims to quantify the structure and function of coastal zone ecosystems in the Arctic in terms of ecological measurments such as productivity, nutrient cycling, energy flow, biomass structure and biodiversity, and to consider how these might be incorporated into resource management planning and conservation. The information will be gathered from scattered published reports using the DFO library system and synthesized into a review paper.
Expected Results
A review paper is to be written on coastal ecological processes relevant to the Western Arctic Ocean. It is anticipated that this will form the basis for planning DFO Ocean Science activities in the Western Arctic, which will link together with the interests of the Inuvialuit Wildlife Management Board (IWMB), with Heritage Canada and with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGPB). For example, The IWMB is interested in how freshwater flow alterations might change the nature of fisheries in the Mackenzie Estuary. Heritage Canada is interested in how the coastal interface between ocean and freshwater serves to sustain the major fish populations which are found in the new national Ivvavik park. The IGPB is developing the LOICZ program (Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone) which examines how land processes, including freshwater runoff, affect the coastal zone.
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Title: Experimental Fisheries Management ID #: 2971-7106 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Gyselman, E. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1110 (Fisheries Research - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Results will support Arctic charr and lake whitefish management strategies throughout the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. All resource users will be beneficiaries.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 6.0 Totals: 0.1 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0
Description
This project is an ongoing series of experiments on anadromous and freshwater fish to verify management models and strategies by experimentally exploiting fish stocks. Started by the Fisheries Research Board in 1971, this project has carried out 2 major research programs, the Experimental Cropping of Lakes Program at Chitty Lake near Yellowknife and the Arctic Char Program at Nauyuk Lake on the Kent Peninsula. Both of the projects have provided the key primary research on lake whitefish and Arctic charr that is now used by resource managers to develop effective management plans.
Expected Results
The Arctic char project is now complete. The results from the Experimental Cropping of Lake Program remain to be published. Progress on data analysis and writing will continue in 1995/96. The results will be published in the primary literature. Project staff provide information to government and non-government management agencies on these species.
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Title: Holarctic Fish Genetic Assessment ID #: 2971-7108 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) nil
Clients: DFO fishery managers, arctic fishery co-management boards, agencies responsible for preservation of arctic fish, international research community, eight arctic nations, international committee on Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Financial Information
(All money figures are in SK) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.5 27.1 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 31.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 31.1 Totals: 0.5 27.1 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 31.1
Description
This project is designed to understand the genetic and morphological diversity of Canadian Arctic fish taxa, place this diversity in the global context, and to determine the degree of mitigation necessary to preserve critical levels of genetic diversity of these fish in the face of local and global environmental change. Objectives include development of a global genetic and morphological data base for Arctic chars and coregonids, collaboration, and sample exchange with foreign scientists in arctic countries. Using data collected from site-specific projects in the Canadian Arctic (e.g., A-base project 2971-7102 and external projects 2971-7117, -7123 etc.) and through international collaborations, the diversity of Canadian Arctic fish will be assessed. From this assessment the susceptibility of Canadian populations to perturbation, conservation problems and recovery will be developed. This research addresses one of the four primary objectives of the Arctic Marine Conservation Strategy - i.e., "maintain genetic diversity in Arctic organisms".
Expected Results
The development of a global data base enumerating genetic and morphological diversity will continue over the longer term. This work establishes the biological context within which anthropogenetic issues affecting Canadian arctic fishery resources must be addressed. For example, in the event that a particular population of Canadian arctic fish is shown to be unique relative to those elsewhere in the Arctic and that a conservation problem exists for these, a much higher level of mitigative effort would be necessary in comparison to another population that was not unique. This work thus provides the basis for the degree of mitigation to be exercised and provides this to the clients listed. Results for 1995/96 include completion of report on char species-level differentiation, collection of comparative material in Siberia, and analysis of existing samples.
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Title: Cumberland Sound Turbot Stock Identification ID #: 2971-7110 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Chiperzak/Reist, D. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1112 (Groundfish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN) Pangnirtung HTA
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 42.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 56.4 Totals: 0.7 42.4 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 56.4
Description
Investigate the stock identity of Greenland halibut captured from the Cumberland Sound winter turbot fishery.
Expected Results
Determine if Cumberland Sound Turbot represent a unique stock or a segment of the Davis Strait stock.
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Title: Shellfish Survey Proposal Development for ID #: 2971-7111 Region: offshore waters of Banks Island
Scientist/Manager: Chiperzak, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1114 (Invertebrates and other species) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Joint Management Committee and Sachs Harbour HTC
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 0.1 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 Polar S 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 (in kin 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 20.0 Totals: 0.1 5.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 , Description I 1 Develop survey proposal options for the FJMC and Sachs Harbour HTC. Provide recommendation on target shellfish species.
Expected Results -, I Proposals for shellfish surveys off the coast of Banks Island providing vessel and funding options. Recommendations as to survey design and target species.
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Title: Arctic College/DFO Training Survey ID #: 2971-7112 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Chiperzak, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1513 (Policy and Regulation Development) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Arctic College Fisheries Joint Management Committee Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 0.1 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Arctic 0.1 5.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 Polar S 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 Total Project Costs (est) 47.0 Totals: 0.2 10.0 0.0 37.0 0.0 0.0 47.0
Description
Provide marine field experience to students of Arctic Colleges Renewable Resource Technology Porgram. Students will learn marine sampling techniques while collecting baseline data offshore of lvvavik National Park in the Yukon Territories.
Expected Results
Students trained in marine sampling techniques. Baseline data for future potential coastal zone studies looking at land/ocean interaction off of lvvavik National Park. Specimen collections for Arctic Colleges, Fort Smith and Inuvik Campuses.
N.B. Vessel support valued at $10k will be provide for this project as a contribution in kind.
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Title: Hydroacoustic Feasibility for Char Enumeration ID #: 2971-7113 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Gyselman, E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Parks Canada
Financial Information I (All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.5 27.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PARKS 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 44.0 Totals: 0.5 27.0 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 44.0
I
Evaluate the potential of using hydroacoustic techniques to enumerate the run of anadromous Dolly Varden char in the Firth River, lvvavik National Park. This FWISL project will provide Parks Canada with the information necessary to assess the possibility of using hydroacoustics as a standard management tool on its northern rivers. Data will be collected and stored according to new DFO National standards for hydroacoustic data. Data will be processed on Simrad as EP500 hydroacoustic software and then presented to Parks Canada in the form of a feasibility report.
Expected Results
The feasibility study will provide the data necessary to evaluate the potential of hydroacoustics to enumerate the Dolly Varden char run in the Firth River. Prospective research sites will be identified and evaluated with the expectation that a full assessment study will be done in future years if a suitable site is found. Parks Canada will be the primary user of the results but other hydroacoustic researchres in DFO will have access to the data for use in developing target strength and survey design programs.
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Title: Hydroacoustics Assessment Research ID #: 2971-7114 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Gyselman, E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Managers and Resource users in Nunavut and Inuvialuit, Gwich'in and Sahtu claim areas. Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 27.9 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 31.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 31.9 Totals: 0.5 27.9 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 31.9 I Description Develop and implement hydroacoustic techniques to assess marine and anadromous fish stocks in the NWT. In conjunction with DFO National Hydroacoustics program, project data will be collected and stored according to the standards for hydroacoustic data storage as set out under the National Initiative. Under this project and in conjunction with the National program, training programs and co-operative assessment programs with clients will be developed.
Expected Results
For planning 1995/96, project staff will complete publications from data obtained on the Arctic Red River in 1993 and begin to develop software based on the operating system for the hydroacoustic system. Project staff will work in conjunction with hydroacoustic specialists in other regions to develop improved survey designs, standardized data storage formats, and client training programs and co-operative assessment projects with clients. Ultimately this will lead to data that can be used not only to manage local fisheries but also to complare results among various client groups throughout the Arctic and east and west coasts.
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Title: Assessment of DNA Techniques for Fish Stock ID ft: 2971-7117 Region: Identification
Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, other arctic fishery co-management boards, fishery co- managers who deal with Arctic char resources.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 19.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 28.0 0.0 0.0 28.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 47.1 Totals: 0.4 19.1 0.0 28.0 0.0 0.0 47.1 L Description This project will assess the applicability of DNA techniques for stock identification, and develop the required technology to conduct restriction length fragment polymorphisms and sequencing analysis of DNA for Arctic char in the Nunavut Settlement Region. Such technology is necessary to develop a) the biological basis for the management unit for this widely used fishery resource, b) criteria by which fish from mixed-stock marine fisheries can be identified to stock of origin, and, c) basic assessment of the level of genetic variability present in this taxon. The NWMB has indicated that the delineation of biological populations is fundamental to their needs for establishing total allowable harvests. This work and that of the companion A-base projects (2971-7102, 7108) accomplish this need.
Expected Results I Technology to assess the basic genetic variability of Arctic char DNA will result in the short-term (1-2 years). The developed techniques can then be widely applied over the longer term to site-specific problems of stock delineation and identification of Arctic char throughout the Canadian Arctic. Such studies form the fundamental first step in fishery management - that of delimiting the resource for management purposes. This work directly addresses needs of the clients identified above. A component of the results will be the upgrading and retooling of the existing Stock Genetics laboratory for this work as well as trained DFO staff capable of such work. Publication of results will occur over the longer term.
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Title: Assessment of Rat River Spawning Char ID #: 2971-7121 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board, Fisheries Joint Management Committee (Inuvialuit), DFO Fishery Managers, Parks Canada.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 0.2 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 GVVIC 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.0 0.0 0.0 18.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 30.0 Totals: 0.2 12.0 0.0 18.0 0.0 0.0 30.0 L Description This project will sample the Dolly Varden char population in the Rat River to a) establish whether both anadromous and resident male life history types are present, b) establish a genetic basis (or not) for the life history types, and c) provide a baseline data set on sex, size, age and frequency ofiife history types for future reference. This work is a site-specific application of present A-base project (2971 7107). Understanding gained from this work is fundamental for fishery management in that, it is hypothesized that as exploitation increases the population shifts from anadromous to resident life history types.
Expected Results
Results for 95/96 include field sampling, fish processing and archiving of data, provision of material to other projects, and initiation of genetic analyses. Reports summarizing field work and data collected and progress reports will be provided to principal client in 95/96. Longer term reports (96/97) will be provided upon completion of laboratory work and will summarize life history differences, consequences for fishery management, and advice to the co-management board. Site specific data accrued by this external project will also be applied to the development of the A-base project addressing Holarctic Fish Genetics (2971 7108).
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Title: Population Dynamics and Genetic Structuring ID #: 2971-7123 Region: of Firth River Dolly Varden Char
Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Parks Canada (lvvavik National Park), Fisheries Joint Management Committee (Inuvialuit), Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board, DFO Fishery Managers, International Research Community
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 18.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PARKS 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 43.1 Totals: 0.3 18.1 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 43.1 Description I This project will sample Dolly Varden char populations of Ivvavik National Park in order to a) determine genetic discreteness of stocks within the Park; and b) develop baseline population parameters for the Firth River stock for determination of population trends. This work is a site-specific application of stock delineation as described under the parent A-base project (2971 7102) and provides the fundamental basis for fishery management - delineation of the managed units (biological populations). Both morphological and genetic criteria will be collected and used to accomplish objectives. This work will also initiate the examination of trends in population dynamics for unit stocks of this species in this area. This work was initiated at the request of the principal client and is primarily funded by them.
Expected Results
Results for 95/96 include field sampling, fish processing and archiving of data, provision of material (tissues) to other projects, and initiation of genetic analyses. Reports summarizing field work data collected will be provided to the principal client in 95/96. Longer-term reports (96/97 - 97/98) will be provided upon competion of the laboratory work and will summarize stock differences, population dynamics parameters, effects of various management regimes, and development of archival specimen and data bases. Site-specific data accrued by this external project will also be applied to the development of the companion A-base project addressing Holarctic Fish Genetics (2971 7108).
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Title: ISR Broad Whitefish Test Fishery - Analysis of ID #: 2971-7124 Region: By-Catch Species Data Scientist/Manager: Tallman, R. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), Gwich'in, Sahtu and DFO fisheries managers
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 16.6 Totals: 0.1 6.1 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 16.6
Description L I Simple analysis of data on inconnu, pike, and lake whitefish caught in the ISR test fishery. Organize the data base and assess the worth of the data for assessment purposes.
Expected Results I 1. Organized data base (in computer) for inconnu, pike, lake whitefish sampled from the fishery; 2. Preliminary analysis of suitability of data for stock assessment.
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Title: Fish and Fish Habitat Utilization in Slave River ID #: 2971-7125 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Tallman, R. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Gwich'in, Sahtu, Northern River Basins Study, and DFO fisheries managers
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 43.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 43.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NRBS 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.5 0.0 0.0 36.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 79.7 Totals: 0.9 43.2 0.0 36.5 0.0 0.0 79.7 I Description Project has 4 components: 1. study of migration of harvested fish (inconnu and burbot) using radiotelemetry; 2. study of age, growth, age at maturation and fecundity of harv6sted fish (inconnu and burbot); 3. a description of the piscine food web using gut analysis and morphological analysis; 4. a fish processing component. NRBS funds are awarded directly to the University of Alberta under the terms of reference with NRBS, and represents the DFO equivalent salary dollars to support 2 graduate students under this partnership.
Expected Results I 1. a description seasonal movements of iconnu and burbot in the Slave River; 2. baseline population parameters of inconnu and burbot in the Slave River; 3. description of the diets and morphology relative to position in the food web of the fishes at the Slave River.
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Title: Population Dynamics and Modelling of Arctic ID #: 2971-7126 Region: Fishes Scientist/Manager: Tallman, R. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: All arctic fishery co-managers, organized co-management boards(FJMC, GRB, TFN, etc), All other agencies working on arctic fish Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 34.9 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 42.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 42.9 Totals: 0.7 34.9 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 42.9 I Description 1 Develop an understanding of the energetics, population dynamics and genetics of anadromous fish and the relationship between these and their prey species with emphasis on whitefish and Arctic charr. Develop and refine quanlitative and quantitative models for the assessment of Arctic anadromous fish populations. Models are senthesized from data generated by field collection of statistics fo fish populations, by the other projects within the Section and from literature sources. Models are designed to address the needs of DFO fisheries management and DFO partners such as the Fisheries Joint Management Committee, the Renewable Resources Boards of the Gwich'in, Sahtu and TFN land claims as well as other client groups.
Expected Results
-, I Better predictive models of population function.
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Title: Broad Whitefish Fishery Model and Synthesis ID #: 2971-7128 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Tallman, R. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), Gwich'in, Sahtu and DFO fisheries managers
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 16.1 Totals: 0.1 6.1 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 16.1 L Description I Development of a quantitative life cycle model for broad whitefish of the lower Mackenzie River using a systems analysis approach. The model will account for inputs into the total stock by growth and reproduction and mortalities (removals) by fishery and natural causes.
Expected Results 1 1. MSc. thesis - University of Manitoba; 2. User friendly model for teaching purposes for clients.
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Title: ISR Broad Whitefish Test Fishery Data - ID #: 2971-7129 Region: Technical Report
Scientist/Manager: Tallman, R. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), Gwich'in, Sahtu and DFO fisheries managers
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 0.1 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 8.6 Totals: 0.1 6.1 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 8.6 I Description I Contract and expenses to publish technical report on ISR broad whitefish test fishery.
I Results I Technical report.
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Project Information
Title: Arctic Marine Fisheries Assessment ID #: 2971-7132 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Chiperzak, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC) - Inuvialuit Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN)
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 15.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 18.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 18.0 Totals: 0.3 15.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 18.0
[ Description
This project studies the abundance, distribution, population dynamics, and life cycle of key marine fish invertebrates within the Arctic marine ecosystem.
Expected Results
Increased knowledge on life history and diet of arctic cod from the Arctic ocean, and Greenland halibut (turbot) from both the eastern and western Arctic
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Project Information
Title: Greenland Halibut Assessment Summary ID #: 2971-7133 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Mathias, J. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1112 (Groundfish) nil
Clients: DFO Eastern Arctic Office, Hunters & Trappers Association (HTA) and Nunavut Wildlife Management Board. Financial Information i
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.1 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 9.6 Totals: 0.1 7.6 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 9.6 Description 1 To draw together scattered scientific information about the Greenland halibut fishery, and present it to the Baffin Island Communities in the form of three posters. The information will come from published information, from DFO study files, and from the experience of J. Mathias regarding the working of the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization. The DFO Area Office will participate in organizing the data presentation. The purpose of this project is: a) to increase the understanding of the Baffin people about the activities of science, and: b) to hear their views on future direction of marine fisheries science in the Nunavut Area.
Expected Results I The posters will be presented by staff from the DFO Eastern Arctic Office to community meetings at the Hunters and Trappers Association (HTA) offices so that the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, the Fishermen, and the communities will have an opportunity for discussion. It is anticipated that this activity will provide a forum for the Baffin people to have an input to the direction of the "Greenland halibut Assessment" science activity. At the same time the project will show the Baffin people how DFO Science relates : (a) to an international treaty (NAFO) on fisheries,; (b) to Canada's mandate to conserve fish stocks, and; (c) to the Baffin Peoples' desire for a sustainable marine fishery in Cumberland Sound.
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Project Information
Title: Assessment of Arctic Char of the Lake Hazen ID #: 2971-7134 Region: Area
Scientist/Manager: Reist, J. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Parks Canada (Northern Ellesmere Island National Park), Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, DFO fishery managers.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 17.2 0.0 16.0 0.0 0.0 33.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PARKS 0.0 0.0 0.0 58.0 0.0 0.0 58.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 91.2 Totals: 0.3 17.2 0.0 74.0 0.0 0.0 91.2
Description
This project continues research begun in 1992 and for 1995/96 will determine if Lake Hazen Arctic char are anadromous (radio tags). The project will also study the basic population structure of Arctic char in lakes in the Lake Hazen area. Arctic char will be collected to study genetic and morphological variation between area lakes and in the Holarctic region. This work is a site-specific application of A-base projects on Stock Identification and Holarctic Genetics (2971- 7102, 7108).
Expected Results
Results for 1995/96:1. Assessment of anadromy in Lake Hazen, Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve Arctic char using radio-telemetry, 2. Database for additional information for genetic and morphological variation in Arctic char across the Holarctic; 3. Assessment of differentiation of genetic population structure of Arctic char in Lake Hazen area; 4. Database for assessment of dynamics of unexploited populations of Arctic char. Longer term results include the understanding of population structure and evolutionary characteristics of unexploited populations of Arctic char. This will then provide data bases for comparison to exploited populations throughout the Canadian Arctic thus contribute to understanding critical to fishery management for exploited fisheries in the Nunavut and Inuvialuit land claim areas.
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Title: Hydroacoustic Assessment Research ID #: 2971-7603 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Gyselman, E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 50% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent -dedicated" vessel time) 50% 1112 (Groundfish) nil
Clients: Panel on Energy Resource Development (PERD), arctic resource co-management boards, other researchers
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.4 21.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 21.9 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PERD 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 35.0 0.0 55.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 76.9 Totals: 0.4 21.9 0.0 20.0 35.0 0.0 76.9
Description
Develop and test an automated data acquisition system that can simultaneously track up to seven ultrasonic tags attached to fish or marine mammals. This 5-year program is being developed in conjunction with Vemeo Inc. of Nova Scotia, a world leader in acoustic tags. The system will allow the measurements of fish or marine mammals to be continuously monitored over long distances. These data will be valuable in many aspects of marine research. PERD is provided with a progress report each year. A final report will be submitted in 1999.
1, Expected Results The results developed under this program will enable researchers to monitor and predict the impacts of hydro and petroleum industry development on fish and marine mammals in the marine environment. It will have a wide range of application in fisheries and marine mammal reserach in a number of disciplines from behaviour studies to pollution effects.
page 90 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Arctic Marine Mammal Ecology & Research Section
The co-management and conservation of Arctic marine mammals relies on the acquisition, interpretation, and dissemination of sound biological knowledge of the animals and the ecological processes that affect them. This is the mandate of the Arctic Marine Mammal Ecology and Assessment Research Section (AMMEAR) of the Arctic Fish and Marine Mammal Research Division at the Freshwater Institute.
The basic questions to be answered are: what animals are we considering (stock identity), where are they found (distribution), how many are there (population ecology), what is their potential for yield (productivity), and what affects these four factors (impacts)? The Section is structured to address these questions over the spectrum of species of concern. Thus at any one time, the Population Ecology Project, for example, may have sub-projects on ringed seals, beluga and walrus. The species being studied are selected on the basis of client concerns.
The clients are the people who have a primary interest in the studies conducted by AMMEAR. Resource co-management boards, such as the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) and the Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC) were legislated by land claims agreements. These boards may see a political, social, economic, or biological reasons to have better information about a species or stock of marine mammals. If AMMEAR can not provide that information from completed studies, it works closely with the boards and the local communities to develop a research program that will obtain the necessary information. International organizations, such as the Canada/Greenland Joint Commission for the Conservation and Management of Narwhal and Beluga (JCCM) and the Walrus International Technical and Scientific Committee (WITS), and national groups such as the Marine Mammal Peer Review Committee (MMPRC) and the Arctic Fisheries Advisory Committee (AFSAC) are other important clients which may indicate needs for future research. The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans requires new information to identify and address conservation issues and AMMEAR staff try to anticipate these needs.
Once necessary studies have been identified through this consultative process, funds are obtained from the initiating agency (eg NWMB, FJMC) or from redirected A-Base. Often methods, techniques and equipment must be developed or modified to collect the data under harsh Arctic field conditions. Data collection incorporates local knowledge and expertise whenever possible and uses sampling equipment which ranges from binoculars to trained dogs to radio tags which communicate with satellites. In the FWI/SL, a variety of sophisticated tools are used to, for example, compare sound spectrograms or DNA characteristics. Data are analysed on PC's and mainframe computers. The results are reported directly to the research collaborators and through published reports and peer-reviewed papers.
The main impediments to the discharge of Section duties are inclement and unpredictable Arctic field conditions and insufficient and unpredictable resources to address all the priority issues raise by our clients on a timely basis.
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Project Information
Title: Arctic Marine Mammals - Administration ID #: 2972-7200 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stewart, R.E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Section Scientists
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 22.9 0.0 8.3 0.0 0.0 31.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 31.2 Totals: 0.3 22.9 0.0 8.3 0.0 0.0 31.2 Description I The project administers Section resources, coordinates Section responses and pays telecommunications support. It is based at FWI when it uses PC's, and mainframe computers. All other members of the section participate to some extent.
Expected Results i Effective coordination and administration of research activities on Arctic marine mammals.
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Project Information
Title: Bowhead Stock Identification ID #: 2972-4302 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Cosens, S.E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO Fisheries Management, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 24.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.5 0.0 0.0 17.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 42.0 Totals: 0.5 24.5 0.0 17.5 0.0 0.0 42.0 I Description Using crossbows and specially designed biopsy darts, bowheads are approached and skin plugs obtained. Samples will be collected from bowheads in northern Foxe Basin and northern Hudson Bay. Genetic analysis of these samples will be used to identify stock relationships among bowheads in n. Foxe Basin and northern Hudson Bay. Genetic analysis of these samples will be used to identify stock relationship among bowheads in Foxe Basin in n. Hudson Bay and Davis Strait (to be sampled in 1996). Genetic analysis will be carried out by 2972-7201.
Expected Results
This is a new project and the number of samples obtained this year is difficult to predict. It is anticipated that 40-50 samples will be collected in total from n. Foxe Basin and Hudson Bay. Funding for sample analysis has yet to be obtained. Local hunters will be trained to collect samples. The identification of stocks is basic to the sound management of any resource. The results of this study will help DFO and NWMB plan and execute appropriate management actions.
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Title: Impact of Relative Population Size on Beluga ID #: 2972-4303 Region: Biology
Scientist/Manager: Innes, S. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) nil
Clients: AFSAC, DFO resource managers, DFO scientists, Canada/Greenland Joint Commission, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Fisheries Joint Management Committee
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 28.2 Totals: 0.2 13.2 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 28.2
Description
The project will examine aging and reproductive samples already on-hand to compare age of reproductive maturity, ovulation rates, and pregnancy rates for stocks at-different relative population sizes. It will test the applicability of general beluga estimates to all stocks, i.e. are the general estimates of reproduction parameters currently used to manage beluga relevant to all stocks? The analysis will be caried out at FVVI although the samples come from sites throughout the Arctic. Much of the data generation will be done on contract, using microscopes. The data analysis uses PC's and the mainframe computer.
Expected Results
The project will compile data with minimum biases. The comparison among beluga stocks will produce an average age-specific reproductive rate and, more importantly, indicate whether such an average can be used for all beluga stocks, regardless of their status. This is essential for estimating sustainable harvest levels and predicting recovery- times of conservation stocks.
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Title: Marine Mammal Population Genetics and ID #: 2972-7201 Region: Stock Discrimination
Scientist/Manager: Clayton, J.W. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Natural Wildlife Management Board (NWMB), Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), Canada/Greenland Joint Commission, DFO scientists and resource managers, other genetics researcher. Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 3.0 188.6 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 193.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 53.1 0.0 0.0 53.1 15.0 FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 261.7 Totals: 3.0 188.6 0.0 73.1 0.0 0.0 261.7 I Description This project develops knowledge of molecular genetic variation in Arctic marine mammals and applies this knowledge, along with ecological and other information to the delineation of stocks. Although based at FWI, the project obtains tissue samples from marine mammals throughout the Canadian Arctic. It analyses the genetic markers for characteristics unique to a stock, or that vary significantly in frequency between stocks. The DNA data are generated using sophisticated lab equipment and specialized PC software. Sample acquisition typically peaks in summer when collaborating projects are in the field, but data are generated all year and convenyed to clients and back to collaborating projects as they are available.
Expected Results
The short term results are the identification of discrete summering concentrations of beluga whales based on analysis of genetic variation of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. They are applicable to beluga from about 13 collection sites in Canada plus adjacent stocks in Alaska and Greenland. They are basic to defining stocks for management purposes, especially for transboundary management (Canada/Alaska/Greenland; Inuvialuit/Nunavut/Quebec). The results are of immense value to NWMB and FJMC who have funded the work, as well as DFO managers and international committees concerned with the management and conservation of these stocks. The longer term results are technologies applicable to other species and an understanding of genetic variability in the examined taxa.
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Title: Marine Mammal Distribution ID #: 2972-7202 Region:
Scientist/Manager: de March, B. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO researchers & Scientists, Nunavit, FJMC, Habitant Management rechearchers & managers. Financial Information 1 Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.0 68.7 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 77.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 77.7 Totals: 1.0 68.7 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 77.7 Description I 1 Examines the geographic distribution and abundance of Canadian Arctic marine mammals, with emphases on factors affecting and resulting from distributions. Research is primarily on sampling, interpretive, and integrative methods.
Expected Results I I This project commenced 1994/95, however, the project leader has been seconded to SAS.
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Project Information
Title: Marine Mammal Productivity ID #: 2972-7203 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stewart, R.E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Fisheries Joint Management Committee, Canada/Greenland Joint Commission, DFO resource managers, DFO scientists, other researchers
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K) .
A-Base 1.3 63.5 0.0 23.0 0.0 0.0 86.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PCSP 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 (in ki 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 111.5 Totals: 1.3 63.5 0.0 48.0 0.0 0.0 111.5 L Description This project uses energetic, allometric, behavioural and physiological techniques to examine growth and reproduction (productivity) of Arctic marine mammals. A study of walrus feeding habits and energetics is also being completed and a satellite tagging program to identify critical habitats and distribution has been started. The project uses sophisticated electronics to transmit diving and behaviour data to a satellite; PC's to retrieve and analyse data, microscopes and thin sectioning equipment at FWI. It carries out field work throughout the arctic, responding to various management issues. It interacts with other projects such as 2972-7201, 2972-7204 and various B-base activities (e.g. 2743-4303).
Expected Results
In the short-term, several papers on walrus growth, reproduction and physiology will be published, parts of a co- management plan for walrus will be drafted, and walrus will be tagged and tracked by satellite. An analysis of organochlorines in different beluga populations will be completed. In the long term, specific growth and reproduction parameters will be determined for high priority marine mammal stocks, with an understanding of the factors that cause them to vary. This information is basic to estimating sustainable harvests, effects of management actions, and to make predictions concerning the recovery of conservation stocks.
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Title: Marine Mammal Population Ecology ID #: 2972-7204 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Innes, S. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Fisheries Joint Management Commission, DFO resource managers, AFSAC, DFO scientists, other reseachers in population ecology.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 1.5 84.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 84.9 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 PCSP 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 0.0 35.0 (in ki 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 119.9 Totals: 1.5 84.9 0.0 35.0 0.0 0.0 119.9 L Description This project carries out investigations to gain knowledge needed for advice on arctic marine mammal population biology and assessment techniques. It develops techniques, such as hydroacoustics, modifies survey designs, innovates new experimental designs and test simulation models. It uses a variety of remote sensors, trained dogs, PC's and mainframe computers in the Arctic and at FWI to improve our understanding of populations and their dynamics. It is closely linked to the Baffin Bay beluga survey 2972-7206 relative population size of beluga projects (2743-4303) as well as 2743-4301 and PERD 2976-7603.
Expected Results
The long-term results will be better ways of assessing marine mammal population size and better estimates. These are essential for managers to set sustainable harvest levels and to identify conservation issues. In the shorter-term, analysis of ringed seal vocalizations as a method of estimating density will be continued, simulations and analyses of the shared Canada/Greenland Stock will be completed, and advice will be provided for a community project on narwhal initiated by Arctic Bay, NWT.
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Title: Environmental Impact Assessment Research ID #: 2972-7205 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Cosens, S. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Igloolik HTO (1995), other government departments, industry, NWMB.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 24.5 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 33.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 33.5 Totals: 0.5 24.5 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 33.5
Description
This project focuses on developing research methods and conducting research to assess the impact of anthropogenic and other factors on arctic marine mammals. Personnel have studied problems such as the imapct of icebreaker noise on belugas, nawhals, and seals and are currently testing methods of assessing the numbers and distribution of Foxe Basin bowheads. In 1994/95 and 1995/96, photographs of naturally marked bowheads as well as unmarked bowheads have been taken. A photo id catalogue has been started and photographs from 1995 will be included. The photo id catalogue is an Igloolik HTO project on which we are advising.
Expected Results
Publish report for assessing the impact of vessel noise on narwhal and beluga communications. Publish report on the distribution and abundance of Foxe Basin bowheads. Complete first field season in northern Hudson Bay. Assumptions required for using photographs of marked and unmarked whales in a mark-resight estimate of population size are being tested. If the method proves to be feasible, it could be adapted to the Davis Strait stock when animals occur over a large geographic area. Estimates for Foxe Basin using the mark-resight method will be compared with those from aerial surveys.
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Title: Bowhead Abundance and Age Structure for ID #: 2972 -7206 Region: Northern Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin Scientist/Manager: Cosens, S.E. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB), DFO resource managers and scientists
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.0 51.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 51.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 NWMB 0.0 0.0 0.0 79.3 0.0 0.0 79.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 131.1 Totals: 1.0 51.8 0.0 79.3 0.0 0.0 131.1 Description I The project will use aerial line transect survey to estimate bowhead numbers in northern Hudson Bay. The age structure of N Foxe Basin bowheads will also be estimated from aerial photographs (Replication of the 1994 aerial survey in N. Foxe Basin to estimate bowhead numbers in using air time from the Igloolik HTO). Local hunters will be trained to collect aerial survey data including counts, behaviour and distance from the aircraft.
Expected Results
Results will include an estimate of bowhead numbers in northern Hudson Bay. Data on the age distribution will be useful for estimating the proportion of young animals in the population. Data will be written up as primary publication and be used in population models to predict the impacts of a harvest. NWMB and DFO will use these results to manage and conserve bowhead whales.
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Project Information
Title: Ringed Seal and Walrus Diseases ID #: 2972-7207 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Nielsen, 0. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, FJMC of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, DFO Biologists and Scientists, other researchers studying marine mammal disease
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 HVVMB 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 (requ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 13.6 Totals: 0.1 7.6 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 13.6
Description
A serological survey is underway to determine whether Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV), a known pathogen of seals, is present in the ringed seal and walrus populations of Arctic Canada. In cooperation with the various Hunters and Trappers Committees from both the eastern and western Arctic, walrus and ringed seal blood samples have been collected over a number of years (1986-1995). The samples are tested for neutralizing antibodies utilizing the tissue culture/diagnostic virology laboratory facilities at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg. The resulting data is shared with the Department of Pathology at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario, which is involved in similar studies of marine mammals in the western Atlantic. Preliminary studies have also been started to examine the prevalence of brucellosis in beluga.
Expected Results
In the short term it will be determined which species are affected with PDV and how far the disease has spread across Arctic Canada. This will complement the work of other researchers in Canada and in Europe studying populations of seals recovering from the 1988 seal epizootic. More importantly the long term changes of antibody prevalences to PDV will allow DFO scientists, NWMB, and FJMC to assess the likelihood of a PDV epizootic in Arctic seal and walrus populations. This could impact on Inuit hunters directly by affecting the hunting quotas set by these agencies. Scientifically these results are also important because PDV is a relatively new virus and little is known about it. Therefore two papers regarding PDV infections in walrus and ringed seals are presently in preparation for submission to primary publications.
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Title: Community Consultations - Baffin Bay Beluga ID #: 2972-7208 Region: Survey
Scientist/Manager: Innes, S. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, JCCM
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 14.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 38.2 Totals: 0.2 14.2 0.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 38.2 Description I Carry our required community consultations in preparation and planning of a Baffin Bay beluga survey. Such a survey has been identified as a high priority by the Canada/Greenland JCCM. It will require the input and participation of affected communities.
Expected Results I Summaries of community meetings and advice, cooperation and participation of affected communities in Nunavut. A survey plan which integrates Inuit and scientific knowledge.
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Title: Bafin Bay Beluga Project ID #: 2972-9009 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stewart, R. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Canada/Greenland Joint Commission, DFO resource managers, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, AFSAC Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 28.4 0.0 100.0 10.0 0.0 138.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 TFN 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 148.4 Totals: 0.4 28.4 0.0 110.0 10.0 0.0 148.4
L Description I The project carries out required community consultations in preparation and planning of a Baffin Bay beluga survey. Such a survey has been identified as a high priority by the Canada/Greenland JCCM. The survey will require input and participation of affected communities. The consultation to include community in the planning, and the preparation of aircraft and equipment will be carried out in 1995/96 for a survey in 1996/97. The survey area covers most of the northern Arctic Archipaligo
Expected Results i Community concerns and interests will be incorporated into a rigorous scientific and logistic plan. Recording systems will be built and any aircraft modifications that may be needed will be made. Longer-term results will be as series of estimtes of the size of the beluga population that summers in Canada. This is high priority information, essential to the international management and conservation of these beluga.
page 103 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Resource Management Science Section
The Resource Management Science (RMS) Section is a component (6 PY) of the Resource Management Division (total 10 PY) administered in the Fisheries Management Directorate. There is a reciprocal exchange of about 1.8 PY between RMS and Resource Management Operation (RMO) for purpose of administration, technical support, and fisheries management duties.
The RMS is responsible for stock assessment programs on mostly freshwater and anadromous fish, and marine mammals (beluga, narwhal, and walrus). Programs are directed to high priority specific fisheries, either native food, commercial, or sport. Priority is based on extent of resource use, client needs, and conservation status. Stocks within these fisheries are assessed (surveys, counting weirs etc.) and fisheries are monitored for biological status, harvest, and catch-effort. These programs are all operated on a joint basis with Fisheries Management in the Arctic Areas (Hay River, Inuvik, lqaluit, and Rankin Inlet). Field and laboratory support of 1.8 PY is drawn from RMO.
Scientific data is used for provision of advice and is reported in AFSAC background documents, reports, and publications. Staff serve on the regional AFSAC subcommittees, the international Canada/Greenland Joint Committee for Narwhal and Beluga, the national Marine Mammal Review Committee, and on various regional committees for habitat and fisheries management issues. The major clients are the fishers (native food, commercial, and sport) - with communication primarily through the co-management resource boards (FJMC, NWMB, and various HTAs and HTCs). Other clients are DFO-regional (fisheries and habitat management) and DFO-HQ (eg: CITES, COSEWIC, IWC, Minister's Advisory Committee on Marine Mammals etc.).
Note: The major role of the RMO (4 PY) is the coordination of operational programs (eg: with co-management boards), development of co-management plans, provision of fishery management advice, and the coordination of scientific and experimental fisheries licencing. This role draws on about 1.8 PY from RMS.
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Title: Great Slave Lake and Other Inland Fisheries - ID #: 2706-0601 Region: Stock Assessment and Monitoring
Scientist/Manager: Day, C. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fishers (native food, commercial/sport), Great Slave Lake Advisory Committee (GSLAC), DFO - C&A, HQ. Financial Information I
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 48.4 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 93.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 93.4 Totals: 0.9 48.4 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 93.4 Description I The main focus of this program is on the lake whitefish and inconnu stocks harvested by the GSL fisheries. Other fisheries are walleye sport/commercial and lake trout sport fisheries. Results from studies are used to develop and implement management strategies appropriate to the particular fish stocks in the various fisheries. Program is fully integrated with the Arctic Area program.
NOTE: 45K O&M Resource Management Collator (2706); 0.6 PY C.Day; 0.3 PY Read.
I Expected Results I 1. Publish - GSL commercial fisheries MS report to 1993 - by March 31, 1996; 2. 1995/96 - monitoring of the fisheries; 3. Publish - stock ID study to 1993 - by March 31, 1996; 4. Publish - inconnu study to 1993 - by March 31, 1996; 5. Above reports to be used to prepare AFSAC documents for recomendations of harvest levels (quotas); 6. Above reports to be used to present seminars to GSLAC; 7. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
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Title: Arctic Charr Stock Assessment and Monitoring ID #: 2707-0700 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Kristofferson, A. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fishers (native food, commercial/sport), FJMC, NWMB, local HTAs, DFO - C&A, HQ, industrial development (oil, gas, mining, hydro), DFO Habitat.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.0 59.7 0.0 16.0 0.0 0.0 75.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 75.7 Totals: 1.0 59.7 0.0 16.0 0.0 0.0 75.7 Description I To develop and implement strategies for the effective management of anadromous fish stocks (primarily Arctic charr) along the coastal Northwest and Yukon territories. Commercial, subsistence and sport fisheries take place each year for anadromous fish along the Canadian coastal arctic. The Section objective is to ensure the maximum social and economic benefits for the residents of the Northwest and Yukon territories and Canada from the harvest and utilization of these fish resources. In order to accomplish this objective, stock-specific information is necessary to establish safe harvest levels such that stocks are exploited in a sustainable manner. The pertinent information comes from field programs.
NOTE: 1.0 PY Kristofferson; also 0.7 PY Carder and 0.4 PY McGowan from Resource Management Operations.
Expected Results
1. Experimental Fisheries (ongoing) - advise on design, review data, make annual recommendations for harvest - reviewed by AFSAC; 2. Publish - biological study aspects of commercial fisheries (A. charr) for 1993/94 and 1994/95; 3. A. charr - Cambridge Bay Area - continue monitoring and assessment of the charr fisheries; 4. Draft report of stock ID and assessment review of A. charr - Cambridge Bay by 31 March 1996; 5. Staff integrated with Area Biologist - monitoring of A. charr fisheries (includes design of program, field aspects, data analysis and writing); 6. Above reports to be used to prepare AFSAC documents for recomendations of harvest levels (quotas); 7. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
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Title: Arctic Charr Assessment and Monitoring ID #: 2707-0701 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Day, C. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fishers (native food, commercial/sport), FJMC, NWMB, local HTAs, DFO - C&A, HQ, industrial development (oil, gas, mining, hydro), DFO Habitat.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 46.2 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 55.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 55.2 Totals: 0.9 46.2 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 55.2 I Description Assessment of the Arctic charr fisheries in the Nunavut, NWT. Data collected from studies will be used in determining the status of the exploited charr, in the preparation of AFSAC status reports, as well as in the development and implementation of management strategies appropriate to the particular fishery and area.
NOTE: 0.2 PY Day; 0.7 PY Read.
Expected Results
1. Publish MS report on Tugaat River and Ikaluit River by March 31, 1996; 2. Arctic charr fisheries - continue the integrated monitoring and assessment program with Nunavut Area Biologist; 3. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
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Project Information
Title: Narwhal Assessment and Monitoring ID #: 2707-0702 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Day, C. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Inuit hunters, NWMB, local HTAs, Canada/Greenland Commission, DFO C&A, HQ, Transport Canada, Oil & Gas Industry, DFO Habitat.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 11.1 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 17.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NIF 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.5 0.0 0.0 19.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 36.6 Totals: 0.2 11.1 0.0 25.5 0.0 0.0 36.6 Description L I Assessment and monitoring of the various narwhal populations in the Canadian Arctic. Data collected from studies will be used in determining the status of the stocks, the effects of hunting (struck/loss rates) and the development and implementation of management strategies. Also biological samples are collected for wide DFO use in stock identification, contaminants monitoring, and other programs.
NOTE: Nunavut Implementation Funds pending; 0.2 PY Day; 0.7 PY Dunn from Resource Management Operations.
Expected Results I 1. Publish MS report - studies up to 1992 - Pond Inlet Arctic Bay area - by March 31, 1996; 2. Repulse Bay/Coral Harbour - complete 3rd of 3 year study - narwhal fishery - draft report by March 31, 1996; 3. Above reports to be used to prepare AFSAC documents for recomendations of harvest levels (quotas); 4. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
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Title: Walrus Stock Assessment and Monitoring ID #: 2707-0703 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Richard, P. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1114 (Invertebrates and other species) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Inuit hunters, NWMB, local HTAs, DFO C&A, HQ, Transport Canada, Oil & Gas Industry, DFO Habitat.
Financial Information -■ I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 29.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 NWMB 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 29.7 Totals: 0.5 29.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.7 [ Description I The project is part of an assessment of the seasonal distribution and population size of Foxe Basin and Northern Hudson Bay walrus population. It includes aerial surveys of the walrus range in Foxe Basin and N. Hudson Bay, observations of their hauling-out behavior on ice or land and monitoring of walrus catches. The project is done in conjunction with D. Pike (Nunavut Area).
NOTE: Potential NWMB funds in the future. 0.4 PY Richard and 0.1 PY Orr.
Expected Results -, I Publications as follows: 1. Canada/Greenland SWG meeeting - June 1995 a) Foxe Basin, N. Hudson Basin Aerial Survey report. b) Harvesting - Sub-Arctic Walrus Stock report. 2.Walrus surveys 1988-90 - Primary publication by March 31, 1996; 3. Above reports to be used to prepare AFSAC documents for recomendations of harvest levels (quotas); 4. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
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Title: Beluga Stock Assessment and Monitoring, ID #: 2707-0704 Region: Tagging
Scientist/Manager: Richard, P. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Inuit hunters, NWMB, various HTAs, FJMC, NWMB, DFO C&A, HQ, Transport Canada, Oil & Gas Industry, DFO Habitat. Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.4 77.3 0.0 46.8 0.0 0.0 124.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 124.1 Totals: 1.4 77.3 0.0 46.8 0.0 0.0 124.1 I Description Assessment of the seasonal distribution and abundance of various NWT beluga populations, including aerial surveys of the range of beluga in the southeastern Beaufort Sea and Hudson Bay as well as telemetry of individual animals toaddress questions of movement and site fidelity. Initially this project monitored various beluga harvests for catch data and biological material.
NOTE: 0.4 PY Richard; 0.4 PY Hall; 0.6 PY Orr.
Expected Results
1. E. Beaufort Sea Beluga - satellite tagging (16 beluga) - July 1995, preliminary analysis of all results by March 31, 1996. Final publication of study by March 31, 1997. 2. Publication of W. Hudson Bay (Churchill area) telemetry study to 1993 - by March 31, 1996; 3. Above reports to be used to prepare AFSAC documents for recomendations of harvest levels (quotas); 4. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
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Title: Beaufort Sea Beluga Tagging ID #: 2707-9018 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Richard, P. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1115 (Marine Mammals) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Inuit hunters, NWMB, various HTAs, FJMC, NWMB, DFO C&A, HQ, Transport Canada, Oil & Gas Industry, DFO Habitat.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.1 58.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 58.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 ADM 0.0 0.0 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 103.7 Totals: 1.1 58.7 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 103.7
Description
The project objective is to describe the short and long term movement and diving behavior of a total sample of 20 individual beluga from the Beaufort Sea population over the range of their summer and fall distribution. Beluga will be live captured and fitted with sattelite telemetry tags.
Note: 0.2 PY Richar, 0.6 PY Hall, and 0.3 PY Orr.
Expected Results I 1. Information gathered will test hypothesis about stock identity, residence time, proportion of time submerged, and sharing of stock by Alaska/Russia Hunters; 2. Progress report - 31 March 1996; 3. Final report - 31 March 1997; 4. Above reports to be used to prepare AFSAC documents for recomendations of harvest levels (quotas); 5. Data to be used for the development of co-management plans.
page 111 Arctic Habitat Science Division Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg T. Shortt, A/Manager
Contaminants Research Section, L. Lockhart Arctic Marine Ecosystems, H. Welch F.W.I. Library, M. Layton DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Arctic Habitat Science Division
The Arctic Habitat Science Division was established as a new Division at the start of FY 1995/96. It contains an Arctic Contaminants Section and an Arctic Marine Ecosystems section, and is also responsible for managing the FWI library. The work carried out by the sections in this division consists primarily understanding the Arctic aquatic environment, and assessing and monitoring of levels of contaminants in Arctic fish, marine mammals and ecosystems and their impact on the suitability of fish and marine mammals as food sources for Northern peoples, as well as impacts on the health of these Arctic species and their environment. The division serves a large number of clients and obtains substantial non a-base resources for work on contaminant and habitat issues of concern in the Arctic. Sources of this funding include DIAND (Northern Contaminants Program), DOE, Sustainable Fisheries, GNWT, FJMC, and industry. Due to the scientific expertise within the Division , there are frequent requests for participation by division scientists on panels and advisory bodies which are frequently multinational as well as national and regional in scope.
The Arctic Marine Ecosystems Section is a small section consisting of one research scientist and three technicians based at FWI. In previous years , the section has been responsible for the operation of two Arctic field camps; one at Resolute in the High Arctic and the other at Saqvaqjuac on the west coast of Hudson Bay. Costs for operating these camps have been borne by this section and, due to lack of resources, neither will be opened this year. The site at Saqvaqjuac is being considered for disposal by Crown Assets. The section conducts studies to determine the structure and function of the marine food webs in the Canadian Arctic. This includes surveys of ice algae and kelp production as well as zooplankton, benthos and Arctic cod, a "keystone " species in the Arctic food web. Staff also study the distribution of critical habitat based on food supplies.
While this section is small, its work is somewhat unique and there is a large client base. DFO Fishery Managers rely on information from this section for determining the feasibility of harvesting arctic species. Other government departments seek information to help decide on the location of shipping routes and marine parks, as well as assessing the impacts of industrial activities such as mining. Advice is also provided to the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee. Collaboration with other regions (Pacific) has also taken place , for example the assemblage of year-round information on organochlorine inputs and distribution in Marine waters.
The Eric Marshall Aquatic Research library serves as the Central & Arctic regional library and is located at the FWI in Wpg. It is responsible for the provision of documents/publications and information services to regional staff; the proper dissemination of results of research via publications by staff; and the coordination of translation services. The library maintains an inventory of 21,000 monographs, 340 current journal titles, 50,000+ volumes of back issues of journals, 25,000+ microfiche (mostly government documents), 300+ microfilms, eight CD- ROMS, and various other documents/maps , etc.
The Contaminants Research Section consists of three research scientists and various supporting staff for a total of 10 FTEs. It is responsible for producing, interpreting, archiving and disseminating data to enhance the understanding of contaminants in the Canadian Arctic. It concentrates on the identification and measurement of trace chemical contaminants in the Canadian Arctic and the determination of trends i.e. whether the levels of these contaminants are changing over time and whether or not they are uniformly distributed over the Arctic. This
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section operates a number of well equipped analytical labs at the FWI and has technological capabilities to identify and measure natural and synthetic organic compounds including chlorinated organics and hydrocarbons, radionuclides and heavy metals all at levels typically found in a wide variety of samples. Work is also carried out on the most sensitive early biological signs of responses ('biomarkers' or 'bioindicators' ) by arctic animals to trace chemicals. Two biomarkers under active research are the cytochrome P-450 system in fish and metallothionein in marine mammals.
The clients for the work include the members of arctic communities, the governments of Canada, NWT and Yukon and agencies of the Native Governments of the various Settlement Regions, as well as other non-government agencies. International contact is extensive and ongoing with international agencies interested in global or polar pollution (e.g. AMAP, UNECE).
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Title: Arctic Habitat Science Division Administration ID #: 2922-2200 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Shortt, T. Arctic content (est) 90% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO managers, OGDs, GNWT, Arctic resource Management Boards
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (AU money figures are in $K)
A-Base 2.0 105.1 1.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 113.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Totals: Costs (est) 113.1 2.0 105.1 1.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 113.1 Description
The Arctic Habitat Science Division was established at the start of FY 1995/96. It contains the Arctic Contaminants & Arctic Marine Ecosystems sections, & is responsible for managing the FWI library. This project administers the Division. The work carried out by the sections consists primarily of assessments & monitoring of levels of contaminants in Arctic fish, marine mammals & ecosystems & their impact on the suitability of fish & marine mammals as food sources for Northern peoples, as well as impacts on the health of these Arctic species & their environment. The division serves a large number of clients and obtains substantial non a-base resources for work on contaminant issues in the Arctic. Sources include DIAND (Northern Contaminants Program), DOE, Sustainable Fisheries, GNWT, FJMC, & industry. There are frequent requests for participation by division scientists on panels & advisory bodies which are multinational, national, & regional in scope. Efficient management requires that all of the reporting and delivery be met in a timely fashion.
Expected Results
There are numerous reports required by various clients throughout and at the end of the fiscal year. There is a major Chapter being prepared for the AMAP report on Contamination in the Arctic which is due by the end of March,1996.
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Title: Toxic Chemicals Data Management ID #: 2922-2201 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Shortt, T. Arctic content (est) 50%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Managers (DFO), DOE, provincial governments, other organizations involved in environmental issues.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 143.8 0.0 0.0 143.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 143.8 Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 143.8 0.0 0.0 143.8 , Description I I This project is funded by the Data Management portion of the Toxic Chemicals program. There are two components ; one is the Burlington-based project on contaminants data on the Great Lakes, and the other is this project which represents contaminants data in C&A Region other than the Great Lakes. Primarily, this project has been funded for the purpose of capturing data on contaminants generated under the Toxic Chemicals Program, but it will also capture data on Arctic contaminants produced by regional projects supported by the Northern Contaminants Program (DIAND). A third aim is to capture into a database historical contaminants data which resides with senior researchers in the region and which may not have been archived into today's standardized database format. This project is part of the overall contaminants information system, a national database using the ACCESS format.
Expected Results
With the arrival of the database server it is expected that regional datasets will be converted to the ACCESS format archive. Historical datasets will be converted as well.
page 115 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Contaminants Research Section
The Canadian Arctic is often perceived as a pristine area which, because of its location, size and economy, has escaped most of the environmental deterioration associated with industrial society. Unfortunately, a number of semi-volatile but persistent chemical contaminants find their ways into the Arctic even though they may never have been used there. Examples of chemicals reaching the Arctic from distant sources include synthetic organic materials like PCBs, DDT and toxaphene, or combustion hydrocarbons, radionuclides from bomb fallout, and heavy metals like mercury and lead. The result is that people in the Arctic often have higher levels of some of these chemicals in their body tissues than people living further south. Similarly, long-lived aquatic animals, notably predators that eat fish, also build up high concentrations of some chemicals in body tissues. Arctic people know of these findings and they increasingly need to establish the implications of the contaminants in order that can make informed decisions about the consumption of fish, marine animals and other aquatic species. The Contaminants Research Section produces, interprets, archives and disseminates data to enhance our understanding about contaminants in the Canadian Arctic.
The contaminants research section consists of 3 research scientists, 2 chemists, one physical scientist, 1 biologist, and two technicians. It concentrates on the identification and measurement of trace chemical contaminants in the Canadian Arctic and the determination of trends i.e. whether the levels of these contaminants are changing over time and whethe or not they are uniformly distributed over the Arctic. It has technological capabilities to identify and measure natural and synthetic organic compounds including chlorinated organics and petroleum & combustion hydrocarbons, radionuclides and heavy metals all at levels typically found in samples of biological tissues, sediments and sometimes water from the Arctic. In the instance of purely synthetic organic materials like DDT, PCBs, toxaphene or bomb isotopes like cesium- 137 there is no ambiguity in the interpretation of the results. If these materials are found, they represent contamination. However, with some other materials like heavy metals or some hydrocarbons, there are natural geological sources to consider as well as pollution. Resolution of natural sources vs. contamination seems likely to be an area of active research over the coming years.
The section also characterizes arctic animals with respect to the most sensitive early biological signs of responses ('biomarkers' or 'bioindicators' ) to trace chemicals. The two biomarkers under active research are the cytochrome P-450 system in fish and marine mammals metallothionein in marine mammals. The cytochrome P-450 system responds to organic contaminants like PCBs and certain hydrocarbons while metallothionein responds to heavy metals.
The section receives input from a variety of individuals and agencies regarding real or suspected contamination problems in the Arctic and investigates them. This is done with a view to developing a general understanding of the scientific principles governing the distribution, trends and toxicology of contaminants found in the Arctic. The information is conveyed to interested end users by conventional scientific means (publications, reports, seminars etc.) by participation in committees, and increasingly by presentations directly to arctic people at local public meetings. The 'clients' for the work are mainly the members of arctic communities and the various agencies created to serve their needs. These include agencies of the governments of Canada, NWT and Yukon and agencies of the Native Governments of the various Settlement Regions as well as other non-government agencies (e.g. DIAND, Health Canada, Env. Canada,
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NWT Resources, DENE, Metis, Yukon College, Science Institute of the NWT etc.) The interest in these data extend broadly throughout the circumpolar Arctic and international contact is extensive and ongoing with international agencies interested in global or polar pollution (e.g. AMAP, UNECE).
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Title: Contaminants Research Section - ID #: 2923-2300 Region: Administration
Scientist/Manager: Lockhart, L. Arctic content (est) 75%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Management, DIAND, DOE, FJMC, Arctic Communities
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 18.5 0.0 12.2 0.0 0.0 30.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 30.7 Totals: 0.3 18.5 0.0 12.2 0.0 0.0 30.7 I, Description Administration of the Contaminants Research Section . This Section is involved in a wide variety of projects and receives funding from sources including the Toxic Chemical Program, the Northern Contaminants Program (DIAND), DOE, DIAND Yellowknife, DIAND Winnipeg, FJMC, IDRC, universities and private companies (Concorde).
Expected Results I Effective overall section administrative operation.
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Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector Project Information
Title: Evaluating the Utility of Biomarkers in Marine ID #: 2923-2301 Region: Mammals
Scientist/Manager: Lockhart, L. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND, FJMC I Financial Information Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 48.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): FJMC 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 ADM 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 Toxic 0.2 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.1 Total Project Costs (est) 88.3 Totals: 1.0 59.3 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 88.3 I, Description This project has support from the ADM Scienc fund for reallocation to higher priorities and the Fisheries Joint Management Committee of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in 1995/96. This work involves the collection of blood, brain and 'liver samples from beluga whales from the summer hunt in the Mackenzie Delta. Mercury levels in blood, brain and other tissues will be determined and an attempt will be made to characterize the mercury in terms of its association with blood cells and proteins. Liver samples will be analyzed for biomarkers that correlate with PCB's and similar compounds. Sub-samples of liver will be made available to Drs. Addison and Bullock at DFO-IOS. The intent is to determine whether contaminants present in the whales have biological consequences for the whales themselves.
Expected Results
The blood mercury results should be available late in the fall, and those will define the need for further fractionation which is planned for the winter. Preliminary results should be reported to the FJMC at their meeting late in the winter.They are particularly interested in the evaluation of biological effects of contaminants on arctic animals. The PCB/biomarker work being done at the FVV1 will be completed by December 31. An abstract has been submitted to the SETAC meeting planned for November, 1995, using data from the two previous collections; if the 1995 data are available in time, then they will be included.
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Title: Joint Agreements Projects ID #: 2923-2302 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lockhart, L. Arctic content (est) 90%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: FJMC, DIAND, DOE, TFN
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.7 106.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 106.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Various 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 206.1 Totals: 1.7 106.1 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 206.1
Description
Through joint agreements with a number of agencies pricipally DOE, DIAND, GNWT etc., assessments are carried out on aquatic systems to determine levels of selected contaminants in samples and determine possible deleterious effects on fishand fish habitat. These agreements vary from year to year. Usually they involve measurements of chemical residues ( organochlcirines, heavy metals, hydrocarbons, radionuclides) or biomarkers of responses by fish to contamination.
N.B. * Estimated at $100k from various sources.
Expected Results
Reports to clients as specified in agreements. This may include scientific presentations or publications. There is a growing demand for presentations directly to the public at open community meetings in the Arctic (Whitehorse, Inuvik, Yellowknife, Fort Good Hope. Rankin Inlet).
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Title: Contaminant Fluxes to Native People from ID #: 2923-2303 Region: Accelerated Consumption of Contaminated Fish
Scientist/Manager: Lockhart, L. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Managers, DIAND, GNWT, Native resource management agencies in the Arctic
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 B-Base: Platform Support Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 I Description This is a project funded by the Toxic Chemicals program which was originally scheduled to last four years. After getting underway in 1992/93, funding was interrupted until this year and only the project's final year's allocation of 10.0K has been alloted to it. The work will consist of a literature review of contaminant data and consumption patterns of northern residents with respect to local fish and marine mammals. The data assembled will be assessed for quality and where adequate, used to derive recommendations on whether the tolerable daily intake approach seems feasible . This study is directed to the large subsistence fishery which does not lend itself to inspections which would ensure that products being consumed do not contain contaminants at levels posing a health risk. Instead, the approach of a tolerable daily intake has been implemented and people are advised on the number of meals per week that c2n be eaten safely without exceeding the tolerable daily intake.
Expected Results
Existing data collected in year one of the project will be converted to a Microsoft ACCESS database. With the two year break in this project, it is unlikely that there is sufficient data to make an assessment on the adequacy of the recommended tolerable daily intake levels.
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Title: Deposital Trends - lake & Marine Sediment ID #: 2923-2304 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lockhart, L. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicatee vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND, OGDs
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.6 87.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 87.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NC 0.2 11.1 0.0 36.0 0.0 0.0 47.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 134.7 Totals: 1.8 98.7 0.0 36.0 0.0 0.0 134.7 L Description By collecting sedimentious from a grid of Arctic Lead water lakes and marine locations, determinations will be made of layer ages and core profiles of polycyclic armatic hydocarbons, organochlorines and metals. Cores are collected during field expeditions and analysed for radionuclides and contaminants in the laboratory. The radionuclide measurements allow the calculation of time intervals during which individual slices from core were deposited. By also measuring the levels of contaminants in the slices, the rate of contaminant deposition and loadings can be calculated. This allows comparison of past and present inputs as well as extrapolations to future states fo contamination. This type of measurement also allows the estimation of the components of certain metals (lead, mercury and cadmium) that are due to natural geology and those due to pollution. A proposal has been made to expand the scope of this work to a North American grid under NAFTA.
Expected Results
Contaminant input data over a grid of locations throughout the Canadian Arctic and relation to N. American input data over the last century. This work originally began under the DFO-LRTAP program and has been refined under the Arctic Environmental Strategy, It has produced estimates of loadings of several contaminants in water bodies throughout the Arctic. There is wide interest in this work throughout North America, and other agencies have asked for assistance in core projects in Africa, Ukraine and elsewhere.
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Title: Arctic Contaminants Assessment and AMAP ID #: 2923-2306 Region: Report Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 27.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NC 0.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 77.2 Totals: 0.4 27.2 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 77.2 Description 1 The goals of this project are to prepare reports on (1) the state of contamination of biota in the Canadian Arctic by organochlorines, PAH, and metals and (2) the state of circumpolar contamination by persistent organic pollutants. The Canadian assessment report is funded by DIAND and is required to be completed by fall 1995. The circumpolar report is funded by DIAND and AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program) and is required in final form by March 1996. This work is done in part by B.deMarch.
Expected Results
I Each aspect of the project will involve preparation of major (80-100 page) reviews on state of contamination. These reviews will form chapters in larger reports being prepared by DIAND and AMAP.
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Title: Contaminant Trends in Arctic Marine and ID #: 2923-2307 Region: Freshwater Fish Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND, Arctic Communities
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 39.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 39.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NC 0.7 40.3 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 80.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 119.3 Totals: 1.5 79.3 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 119.3
Description
This project determines temporal and spartial trends in PCBs, organochlorine, PAHs and heavy metals (including methyl mercury) in fish from lakes and rivers in NWT, the Yukon, northern Quebec, and in marine fish from the Canadian Arctic waters and Hudson Bay. It identifies the magnitude, and the geographic extent of the contaminant distribution and attempts to predict future changes. Concentrations of PCB's and other persistent organochlorines in fishes are expected to decline over time with controls on use in North America. Large variations in concentrations in fish are expected due to differing food chain lengths in differents lakes/rivers and lipid content and age of the individual samples. There are also geographic trends related to apparent greater deposition of OC contaminants in the eastern Arctic
Expected Results
Results will be presented in the form of an annual report to DIAND (Arctic Environmental Strategy) and at annual review meetings of the AES-Northem Contaminants Program.
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Title: Food Chain Effects in Yukon Lakes ID #: 2923-2308 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND, Yukon Government
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 32.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 32.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NC 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 47.1 Totals: 0.5 32.1 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 47.1 Description
I Measure biochemical stress indiceaors and organochlorine concentrations in fish tissues sampled from L. Laberge and other Yukon lakes. Determine temporal trends in organochlorine and PAHs using samples from archived fish and dated sediment cores. High levels of contaminants were first recorded in this Yukon L. in 1990 and could cause reproductive failure in fish. Fishing has been discontinued for lake trout and burbot because of the high toxaphene levels. The main thrust of the work has been on the structure of the the food chain loadings to the top predators.
Expected Results
I The results of food chains have shown that the peculiar food chain is the cause of high levels in the top predators and not local sites of contamination. The fallout of toxaphene and food chain biomagnification can explain the problem. These results are of great interest to the local people as the resultas were presented at two community meetings in Whitehorse.
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Title: (dent. of OCs & PAHs in Air [AES] ID #: 2923-2309 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Atmospheric Environment Service, DIAND Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 28.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 28.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): AES 0.0 0.0 0.0 139.0 0.0 0.0 139.0 0.0 NC 0.3 17.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 184.3 Totals: 0.8 45.3 0.0 139.0 0.0 0.0 184.3 I, Description Samples of air (polyurethane foam, filter) are being analyzed in collaboration into Atmospheric Environment Service. Analysis is for Organochiorine contaminants and PAHs. AES collects the samples from 4 locations in the Arctic. Results are integrated with our lake sediment and fish results to interpret contaminant levels and patterns.
Expected Results I Each year approximately 500 individual samples are analyzed for OCs and PAH. Results are published in scientific journals and in annual reports of DIAND for the Northern Contaminants Program.
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Title: Sparta! and Temporal Trends of ID #: 2923-2310 Region: Organochlorines in Arctic Marine Mammals Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND, Arctic Communities
I Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 20.9 0.0 11.5 0.0 0.0 32.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NC 0.6 34.5 0.0 30.0 0.0 0.0 64.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 96.9 Totals: 1.1 55.4 0.0 41.5 0.0 0.0 96.9 L Description Tissues of marine mammals (ringed seals, walrus, beluga, narwhal) from different circumpolar regions over 5 to 10 year time periods, will be analyzed for PCB's, toxaphene and other organochlorine contaminants, to describe temporal and spatial trends and extent of contamination of traditional native diets. Analyses of planar PCB's and chlorinated dioxin/furans are also conducted on selected samples. During 1995/96, analyses will be carried out on beluga whale and narwhal tissues from the eastern Canadian Arctic and on ringed seals form high Arctic locations - Eureka and Grise Fiord. Results will be presented in the form of an annual report to DIAND (AES) and at annual review meetings of the AES-Northern Contaminants Program.
1, Expected Results Concentrations of PCB's and other persistent organochlorines in marine mammal blubber are expected to decline over time. However recent results do not show statistically significant declines in the eastern Arctic.
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Title: Spatial and Temporary Trends of Metals in ID #: 2923-2311 Region: Marine Mammals
Scientist/Manager: Wagemann, R. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DIAND, Health Canada, NWT Health, NWT Renewable Resources, FJMC, other native agencies
I Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.4 89.3 0.0 11.1 0.0 0.0 100.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NC 0.0 0.0 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 45.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 145.4 Totals: 1.4 89.3 0.0 56.1 0.0 0.0 145.4 I, Description Determination of spatial and temporal trends of toxic metals (lead, cadmium, mercury) in tissues of ringed and other marine mammals and to develop a database for estimating dietary contaimination. For metals it is through the determination of temporal trends that the anthropogenic and natural background components can be differentiated. Spatial differentiation is relevant for the setting of appropriate consumption levels for marine mammal tissues. This project is also of importance to the possible imposition of new global emission controls through the UN convention on metals.
Expected Results
A sufficient database will be produced to delineate temporal and spatial trends of mercury in marine mammals across the Arctic. A statistically large enough sample size will permit the determination of background levels and allow differentiation of regional differences in terms of regional geological differences and possible atmospheric depositions.
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Title: Mercury in Sediments in Hudson Bay ID #: 2923-2312 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lockhart, L. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Management, DIAND, Arctic Communities
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 18.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): ADM 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.3 18.7 0.0 16.0 0.0 Description I Marine mammals in Hudson Bay contain high levels of mercury and cadmium in some tissues. There is evidence that inputs of both these metels have increased over the past century and thus it is important to develop an understanding of how increased inputs may result in increased amounts in top predators. This can be best done by examining the sediments and the animals lower in the food chain. This project will obtain such samples and analyze them.
14 days of vessel support will be provided by DFO Atlantic fleet.
Expected Results
I The project will supply the first analysis of Hudson Bay offshore sediments with the animals isolated from those same sediments. The data will contribute to food chain Models of Mercury and possibly other contaminants and help the understanding of how such high levels build up in the mammals. When combined with other data obtained from cruises in 1992 & 1993, preliminary mapping of mercury and other contaminants in Hudson Bay sediments will be possible.
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Title: Contaminants in Arctic Marine Fish ID #: 2923-2313 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Management, DIAND, Arctic Communities
Financial Information i Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 50.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 50.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): ADM 0.0 0.0 0.0 55.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.8 50.6 0.0 55.0 0.0 Description
L I Relatively little information is available in the contamination of marine fish since past programs have concentrated on freshwater fish. Here marine and anadromous fish will be examined for organochlorine compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and several heavy metals.
Expected Results
I Analysis of existing collections will permit us to report the levels found to the Fisheries Joint Management Committee and also to set the basis for comparing fish taken from different times and loctions. Data will be compared with consumption guidelines and with literature expressing toxicity as a function of residues.
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Title: Contaminant Profiles and Stock Identification ID #: 2923-2314 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Muir, D. Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fisheries Management, DIAND, Arctic Communities
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 27.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.2 B-Base: Platform Support ADM 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.0 0.0 Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.4 27.2 0.0 24.0 0.0 I, Description The principle behind this work is that marine mammals accumulate stable organochlorine contaminants from thier food and that utilization of different food resources will result in the accumulation of different mixtures of contaminants. The project measure approximately 130 different contaminants in each animal and then compares the profiles shown by different animals. Different stocks appear to show different profiles.
Expected Results
Blubber from animals in existing collections will be analyzed for 130 organochlorines. The intent is to start with collections of beluga from the eastern Arctic and to broaden the scope to include ringed seals, walrus, and narwhal in future work. The analysis in 1995/96 will permit statistical testing to see if clusters of profiles are detectable. If they are, then the arguement can be reversed and the profile of contaminants can be used to infer information about stocks. Not insignificantly, the project will also increase our base of information on northern contaminants.
page 131 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Arctic Marine Ecosystems Section
This small section consists of one Research Scientist and three technicians. The Section conducts basic research on the structure and function of Canadian Arctic marine food webs, basically who eats who and how many, and where it happens. This includes:
❑ phytoplankton, ice algae and kelp production at the base of the food web, and what controls it; ❑ production of zooplankton (the tiny animals floating in the water; ❑ production of benthos (the clams and other invertebrates living on the sea bottom); ❑ distribution and production of fish, primarily Arctic cod, a "keystone species" in the food web; ❑ food habits and predatory impact of sea birds and marine mammals, and the distribution of critical habitat based on food supplies.
Section clients include the whole spectrum of users, for example:
❑ DFO. Definition of critical marine mammal habitat based on food resources; distribution abundance and feasibility of commercial harvesting of fish, shellfish and marine mammals; assessment of environmental impacts of industrial development. ❑ OGD's. Advising Parks Canada on location of marine parks; advising Transport Canada on critical habitat potentially affected by shipping; participating in DIAND and DOE regulatory activities, such as a 1993 Section report on the potential effects of iron disposal in Arctic waters (including original research). ❑ NGO's. Providing scientific information, advice and reviews to Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Biodiversity committees, etc. regarding Arctic marine ecosystem issues. ❑ Science community. Section research results are important to the international scientific community because so little data is available from Arctic waters. One example: interpretation of contaminants flow through the Arctic marine ecosystem requires our knowledge of food webs and energy flows. In 1993 the section collaborated with Barry Hargrave (DFO; B10) to provide the first year-round information on organochlorine inputs and distribution in Arctic waters. This also has obvious ramifications for Inuit health (GNVVT; Health and Welfare Canada). Outputs from the section include primary scientific publications; reviews; participation in (inter)national meetings requiring Arctic marine ecosystem information.
page 132
Fisheries and Oceans Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector Project Information
Title: Arctic - Lac des Gras ID #: 2984-8401 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Welch, H.E. Arctic content (est) 100% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1132 (Biological Oceanography/Ecology) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO, DOE, DIAND, GNWT, Mining Industry.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 12.4 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 13.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 103.4 Totals: 0.2 12.4 0.0 91.0 0.0 0.0 103.4 I Description Measure fish and benthos production, nutrients and pollutants in small control lakes at BHP's Koala diamond exploration camp on the barrens near Lac des Gras. NOTE: SF funds are coded from allocation 2745-2005.
Expected Results
1. Obtain data for assessment of impacts due to diamond mining. 2. Be able to compare Lac des Gras lakes with similar lakes at Saqvaqjuac, northwest Hudson Bay, to allow environmental assessment of lakes throughout the barrens of Arctic Canada.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Arctic Marine Ecosystems ID #: 2984-8402 Region:
Welch, H.E. Scientist/Manager: Arctic content (est) 100%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1132 (Biological Oceanography/Ecology) (in equivalent "dedicated- vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO, OGDs, Industry, GNWT, Science Community.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 3.8 203.0 0.0 18.0 0.0 0.0 221.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Totals: Costs (est) 221.0 3.8 203.0 0.0 18.0 0.0 0.0 221.0 Description
This project is aimed at measuring arctic food web production, to help define: critical marine mammal and seabird habitat; pathways of pollutant flow; potential commercial fisheries; and climate change.For 1995, two brief field trips are planned to the Polar Basin (80degrees N) to collect ice algae and nutrients as part of a longer study to determine ice algae production across the Arctic and the role of nutrients in controlling thsi production. This work is linked to the calibration of the new SeaVVifs earth-sensing satellite for measuring marine production throughout the Arctic.
Expected Results
I Trophic energy flow models of arctic marine systems such as Lancaster Sound, along with populations and energetics of food web components such as clams, sea urchins, ice algae, and types of zooplankton. NOTE: Project personnel are prepared to begin new work in either Hudson Bay, the Beaufort Sea or the central Northwest Passage, depending upon future DFO needs and funding opportunities.
page 134 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Freshwater Institute Library
The Eric Marshall Aquatic Research library serves as the Central & Arctic regional library and is located at the FWI in Wpg. It is responsible for the provision of documents/publications and information services to regional staff; the proper dissemination of results of research via publications by staff; and the coordination of translation services. The library maintains an inventory of 21,000 monographs, 340 current journal titles, 50,000+ volumes of back issues of journals, 25,000+ microfiche (mostly government documents), 300+ microfilms, eight CD- ROMS, and various other documents/maps , etc.
The library provides the following services to its clients: ❑ Provision of scientific and technical information and publications to regional staff in support of their programs. ❑ Provision of online search services (including CD-ROM) to regional staff and other clients. ❑ Provision of loans/ photocopies to clients. ❑ Bimonthly distribution of library memos on activities and accession lists. ❑ Annual serials holding list prepared on diskette and distributed.
Library clients inclue: DFO staff, OGDs, the University of Manitoba, the Universiy of Winnipeg, other universities, consultants, and other libraries.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Library ID #: 2508-0000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Layton, M. Arctic content (est) 30%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1412 (Technical Support) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO staff, OGDs, University of Manitoba, U. of Wpg, other universities, consultants,other libraries
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 3.0 97.7 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 192.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 192.7 Totals: 3.0 97.7 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 192.7 Description tl The Eric Marshall Aquatic Research library serves as the Central & Arctic regional library and is located at the FWI in Wpg. It is responsible for the provision of documents/publications and information services to regional staff; the proper dissemination of results of research via publications by staff; and the coordination of translation services. The labrary maintains an inventory of 21,000 monographs, 340 current journal titles, 50,000+ volumes of back issues of journals, 25,000+ microfiche (mostly government documents), 300+ microfilms, eight CD-ROMS, and various other documents/maps , etc.
I Expected Results Provision of scientific and technical information and publications to regional staff in support of their programs. Provision of online search services (including CD-ROM) to regional staff and other clients. Provision of loans/ photocopies to clients. Bimonthly distribution of library memos on activities and accession lists. Annual serials holding list prepared on diskette and distributed.
page 136 Aquaculture & Fish Health Programs Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg J. Tabachek, Aquaculture Co-ordinator
Fish Health Certification, Winnipeg, B. Souter Fish Health Certification, Toronto, T. Heiman DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Aquaculture Section
The section consists of Aquaculture and Fish Health Units in Winnipeg and Toronto. As a result of Program Review, this is the final year for freshwater aquaculture research and the operation of the Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre (RARC). The section's Fish Health and Aquaculture Coordination responsibilities will continue.
Fish Health has responsibility for certification of salmonid fish farms/hatcheries as specified under the Fish Health Protection Regulations and the Fisheries Commission. Facilities must be certified before shipping fish/eggs across provincial/territorial boundaries and fish are tested prior to stocking into the Great Lakes Basin. The lab in Toronto is responsible for testing in Ontario while the lab in Winnipeg is responsible for the rest of the Region. This year, the Toronto lab is also involved in a tumour testing program and a survey for whirling disease in fish from the Great Lakes.
Aquaculture Coordination provides a liaison between the federal government and the freshwater aquaculture industry and is responsible for aiding the Region in achieving the objectives in the Federal Aquaculture Development Strategy. The Coordinator provides information for clients and acts as a liaison between clients and producers, suppliers, governments and researchers.
RARC serves clients through Joint Agreements by raising 9 species of fish, supplying research facilities to researchers, producers and governments and providing advice on aquaculture. By the end of the fiscal year RARC will be turned over to new owners and much of this years efforts will be devoted to this end.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Section Administration, Aquaculture ID #: 2973-7300 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Tabachek, J. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1120 (Aquaculture Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Section Scientists
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 29.8 0.0 6.2 0.0 0.0 36.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 36.0 Totals: 0.5 29.8 0.0 6.2 0.0 0.0 36.0 Description
I All administrative aspects of the Section (stationed at FWISL and the Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre [RARC]) including budget, staffing, preparation of administrative documents, control of vehicles and inventory and serving on committees.
Expected Results
I Short-term results are elimination of the research and RARC components of this Section during this fiscal year to address the decision of Program Review for DFO to cease activities in freshwater. Transfer operation of RARC to another party, making suitable arrangements for inventory, fish stocks, current clients, staff housing, etc.
Administrate section budgets. Administrate and maintain vehicle pool (2 trucks, 1 van). Prepare annual reviews and other documents as required. Participate on committees.
To facilitate these changes two members of this section have been seconded to the Region's Special Assignments Section (SAS).
page 138
Fisheries and Oceans Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector Project Information
Title: Fish Nutrition ID #: 2973-7301 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Tabachek, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 90% 1123 (Finfish Aquaculture) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) 10% 1120 (Aquaculture Science - general) nil
Clients: Arctic charr producers, feed manufacturers, researchers
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in V()
A-Base 0.1 6.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 8.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 8.8 Totals: 0.1 6.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 8.8 I Description
This project is being eliminated as a result of Program Review.
Establish the nutritional requirements of fish as well as diet-related factors such as particle size, ration and frequency of feeding; conduct research on the use of alternate (local or less expensive) ingredients and the efficacy of dietary pigments. Transfer information to fish producers and feed manufacturers. Fish growth and feed efficiency were measured at Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre (RARC). Biochemical components are analyzed at FVVI in Aquaculture or Toxicology labs. Arctic charr was the species of interest and this work was not being done elsewhere until the species was shipped to other universities and provincial governments. Data was compiled in a database and analyzed via SAS on FWI in-house computer. Data on pigmentation could have tied into Inspection if this program had not been eliminated.
Expected Results
If technical assistance is available, short-term results will be to complete analysis of samples from research on uptake of pigments two strains of Arctic charr. Long-term results will be to: a) analyze data and draft manuscript for publication to transfer information to pigment manufacturerS, feed manufacturers and fish producers. Pigments are very expensive and increase the costs of production. The data will provide information on the pigment and strain that is more cost-effective as well as the difference in uptake between the large and average parts of the charr population.
b) draft manuscript from M.Sc. thesis "The effect of dietary lipid and vitamin E on the reproduction of Arctic charr" (1992) to provide information to producers and manufacturers which could enhance egg production and survival.
page 139
Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Fish Physiology ID #: 2973-7302 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Giles, M.A. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 90% 1122 (Invertebrate Aquaculture) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 10% 1125 (Harmful Marine Algae) nil
Clients:
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 16.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 16.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NRBS 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 16.8 Totals: 0.3 16.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 16.8
Description
I Scientist, M. Giles, took the ERI at the beginning of May 1995. Therefore, the project has concluded except for publications that M. Giles is working on.
B-Base funding was through the Northern River Basin Study. M. Giles has permission from RDG to retain work space at the FVVI until the end of October 1995 to complete the project. Control of funds was turned over to S. Brown in Contaminants and Toxicology since this was a joint project between Giles, Brown and a researcher at the University of Guelph.
Expected Results I Publication of charr data in 1996/97. Publication of age-verification in 1998/99 (John Babaluk).
NOTES:
• Salary of Res-Sci ($5k) prior to retirement not included. • Proposal Pending re: B. Souter's submission
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Aquaculture Coordination ID #: 2973-7303 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Tabachek, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1125 (Harmful Marine Algae) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish farmers (57%), mun., prov., & fed. pmts. and agencies (19%), students and educators (11%), consultants and suppliers (13%). HQ, fed. and prov. aquaculture coordinators and aquaculture associations. Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 22.5 0.0 13.5 0.0 0.0 36.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 36.0 Totals: 0.4 22.5 0.0 13.5 0.0 0.0 36.0 I, Description The Regional Aquaculture Coordinator acts as DFO's principal point of contact in the region with the freshwater aquaculture industry (producers and suppliers, provincial/territorial governments and the academic community) on aquaculture matters. Provide information and/or referrals to clients to enable them to make informed decisions in establishing and operating aquaculture operations. Hand-written documentation is compiled on clients and data is collected at the FIA/I (Excel, IBM 486) on information requested to assess what aquaculture information should be compiled and to foster networking.
The Coordinator provides the Directors of Aquaculture in Policy and Planning and Science with information and advice regarding the industry. Maintain a liaison with DFO in Ottawa, other federal, provincial/ territorial aquaculture coordinators, producers and/or associations, academia and experts to exchange information as well as to ensure that information and concerns regarding freshwater aquaculture is reflected in government documents and reports. Expected Results
I Short term results provide a liaison between clients and sources of information and contact people they require as well as between Ottawa and aquaculture industry in the Region. Long-term results will be an increase in the number and/or production of freshwater aquaculture facilities in the Region, providing increased employment opportunities and food fish supply. This project will aid in carrying out some of the activities for which all federal government departments accepted responsibility through the Federal Aquaculture Development Strategy. Ontario and Prairie Aquaculture Implementation Committees will be set up which will provide a mechanism to identify, discuss and resolve issues that are important for the development of aquaculture in freshwater. Results on implementation of the Strategy will form part of the report to be submitted by Policy and Planning in Ottawa to Minister Brian Tobin at the end of the fiscal year. MOU on Aquaculture will be negotiated with Ontario. Contacts will be developed with provincial and federal governments, industry, aquaculture associations. page 141
Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre ID #: 2974-7400 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Olson, R. Arctic content (est) 10% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 75% 1124 (Introductions and Transfers Committees) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) 25% 1125 (Harmful Marine Algae) nil
Clients: Univs.of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Brandon, Gvmts of the N.W.T.< MB, N.B. Nelson River Sturgeon Co- Management Board and Fisheries Development Canada. DFO researchers. The general public, fish producers, governments, academia and researchers. Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 4.1 172.6 14.6 33.1 0.0 0.0 220.3 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 JA1, 2 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 3.3 JA3, 4 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 JA5, 6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 Total Project Costs (est) 230.8 Totals: 4.1 172.6 14.6 43.6 0.0 0.0 230:8 L Description Support of on-site and off-site research by providing 9 species of fish to clients working in the fields of toxicology, endocrinology, fish disease, fish habitat and aquaculture. Support projects on recreational stocking and enhancement conducted by clients. Development of technology to raise each species. Development and testing of equipment, such as recirculation, solar energy and heat pumps, that supports aquaculture facilities in northern climates. Transfer of technology from aquaculture research to clients in the aquaculture industry (producers, manufacturers, universities and governments) in support of the aquaculture industry.
Expected Results
Short-term results are to operate the main research and certified broodstock facility and provide service to clients (listed above) at FWI as well as through Joint Agreements by developing systems and raising 9 species of fish and/or supplying eggs for future broodstocks for researchers (JA1 & 2), First Nations (eg Nelson River Sturgeon Co- Management Board [JA4]), provincial/territorial governments (eg. GNWT [JA3] and Prov of NB [JA5]) and private business (JA6) as well as providing aquaculture information, advice and tours (50 tours per year). Clients at FWI will utilize fish for toxicology and Arctic fisheries genetics research and inspection monitoring programs. Other clients will utilize fish for enhancement of sturgeon in MB, recreational stocking programs in the NWT and establishing broodstocks for support of the aquaculture industry as per the Federal Aquaculture Development Strategy.
Long-term results are transfer of the facility to another operator by the end of the fiscal year to meet the decision of page 142 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Fish Health Section
The Section provides an inspection/certification program for private & public fish culture hatcheries in the region required by the Fish Health Protection Regulations (FHPR), provides a diagnostic fish health service to the RARC, GLLFAS, FWISL researchers and provincial fish hatcheries (on a cost recovery basis), and develops a database on the distribution of important salmonid pathogens in the region. Fish disease prevalence & distribution data is collected by Fish Health Officials at the FWISL and the GLLFAS from individual hatcheries participating in the FHPR certification program, from provincial & private hatcheries, and from specimens collected from the wild in the region by DFO researchers. FHPR certification data will be collected during April-May, September-November ,1995, and March 1996. Data from stock monitoring is collected during the year as samples are received. Hatchery owners receive certificates & lab reports prepared by regional Fish Health Officials at the FWISL and the GLLFAS. Copies are sent to the National Registry of Fish Diseases to contribute to a national compendium of certified hatcheries. Results obtained from stock monitoring at provincial & private hatcheries are provided to managers/owners in the form of lab reports. Summaries of findings for samples collected from wild populations are provided to interested research scientists & resource managers in the region.
Clients include: private hatchery owners in the Region (prairie provinces, Ontario, and NWT); provincial hatchery managers; research scientists & resource managers at the FWISL; the manager of the Rockwood Aquaculture Research Centre (RARC); the National Registry of Fish Diseases in Ottawa; provincial agencies (e.g. Alberta Department of Agriculture); and, extraregional DFO fish health laboratories.
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Diagnostic Pathobiology ID #: 2975-7501 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Souter, B. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1121 (Fish Health) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Private & provincial hatcheries; scientists & managers at the FWISL; Rockwood Aquaculture Research Center (RARC); National Registry of Fish Diseases, Ottawa; provincial agencies (e.g. Alberta Dept. of Agriculture); other DFO fish health labs Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 3.0 163.7 0.0 19.2 6.0 0.0 188.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 188.9 Totals: 3.0 163.7 0.0 19.2 6.0 0.0 188.9 Description L I The Section provides an inspection/certification program for private & public fish culture facilities in the region required by the Fish Health Protection Regulations (FHPR); provides a diagnostic fish health service to RARC & FWISL researchers; provincial fish hatcheries (cost recovery basis); & develops a database on the distribution of important salmonid pathogens. Fish disease prevalence & distribution data is collected from hatcheries participating in the FHPR certification program, provincial & private hatcheries, & from specimens collected in the NWT by DFO researchers. FHPR data will be collected during April-May & Sept.-Nov. '95, & March '96. Data from stock monitoring is collected during the year as samples are received. Hatchery owners receive certificates & lab reports prepared by Fish Health Officials at the FWISL. Copies are sent to the National Registry of Fish Diseases for a national compendium of certified hatcheries. Monitoring results are provided to hatcheries in the form of lab reports. Summaries of data for samples in the NWT are provided to scientists & resource managers at FWISL.
Expected Results
Biannual inspections will be completed on 13 private & one federal fish culture facilities (MB -1; SK - 7; AB - 6). Maintenance of certified disease free status will enable participants in the program to continue & expand interprovincial & international export sales opportunities. Continued participation on the FHPR technical committee to revise the Fish Health Protection Regulations. Stock monitoring & other diagnostic services-health assessment of fish stocks from RARC, FWISL, provincial hatcheries, aquaculturists & general public. Continued development of a NWT fish disease database. This work will be performed in cooperation with the Arctic Fish & Resource Management Divisions. Primary users of this information will be the National Registry of Fish Diseases in Ottawa, provincial hatchery managers, resource managers & researchers at the FWISL, regional & extraregional clients & client groups
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Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Fish Health Certification ID #: 2975-7502 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Heiman, T. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1121 (Fish Health) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Private & provincial hatcheries; scientists & managers; National Registry of Fish Diseases, Ottawa; OMNR; other DFO fish health labs. Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.8 87.8 0.0 11.0 0.0 0.0 98.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 98.8 Totals: 1.8 87.8 0.0 11.0 0.0 0.0 98.8
Description
The Fish Health Certification Laboratory provides a testing service to the private aquaculture industry in Ontario. This involves the inspection of sites,.and sampling and analysis of fish. As a result of these inspections, facilities receive Fish Health Certificates under the Fish Health Protection Regulations of the Fisheries Act, stocks of fish are inspected prior to stocking in the Great Lakes Basin in compliance with the Fish Disease Control Commitee of the Fisheries Commission, and shipments of fish are certified to be free of certain diseases under U.S. Title 50.
Expected Results
Approximately 19 inspections will be completed at private facilities in 1995/96. These will involve the inspection of sites, and sampling and analysis of about 5000 fish. Fish health certificates will be issued to those facilities at which no pathogens are found. Title 50 certificates will be issued for shipments of fish or eggs as requested by the certified facilities.
page 145 Fisheries and Oceans Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Survey for Whirling Disease in the Great Lakes ID #: 2975-7503 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Heiman, T. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1121 (Fish Health) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Private & provincial hatcheries; DFO scientists & managers; National Registry of Fish Diseases, Ottawa; OMNR; other DFO fish health labs. Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 9.8 Totals: 0.2 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.8 Description
I The parasite Myxobolus cerebralis causes whirling disease and is responsible for severe losses in young cultured and wild salmonids. The occurence of this parasite was reported for the first time in New York State in the Lake Ontario watershed in late 1994. This organism is certifiable under the Canadian Fish Health Protection Regulations. Whirling disease has never been reported in Canada. In a joint effort between DFO and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, we will survey susceptible wild stocks of rainbow and brown trout in tributaries of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie to determine if M. cerebralis can be detected.
Expected Results I The Ontario fish health laboratory will examine 15 samples from tributaries of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie for the presence of M. cerebralis. By doing so we will be able to determine if the parasite has found its way into Canadian waters and if so the extent of its distribution.
page 146 Fish Habitat Research Division
Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg M. Papst, Manager
Experimental Ecosystem Section, Vacant Experiment Lakes Area Observatory, J. Shearer Food Chain Studies Section, E. Fee Fish Biology Section, R. Bodaly Toxicology Research Section, D. Malley Environmental Toxicology, J. Klaverkamp DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Fish Habitat Research Division
This research unit provides expert advise and conducts research related to the protection of freshwater fish habitat. Program researchers provide expert advise to fish habitat managers, Provincial regulators and industry. The research projects of the program consists of both field and laboratory studies, frequently these studies involve direct participation of industry or Universities.
page 147 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Fish Habitat Research Division - Administration ID #: 2980-8000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Papst, M Arctic content (est) 20%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Natural Resources Industry; Environmental
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.9 118.8 10.9 9.7 44.3 0.0 183.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Totals: Costs (est) 183.7 1.9 118.8 10.9 9.7 44.3 0.0 183.7 Description
1 Lead and coordinate the Division's program planning and execution; manage the Division's fiscal resources and personnel. Ensure scientific audit and quality control of the Division's outputs (primarily reports and publications). Ensureappropriate transfer of information and advice to internal (DFO) and external clients. Provide secretarial services to Division researchers. Coordinate and optimize positive publicity for the Division. Manage the Division's capitalbudget. Provide centralized office services, such as photocopying and travel coordination, for the Division.
*NOTE: All A-Base Capital funds for the entire Division are managed via this Org. Code.
Expected Results
I Division management.
page 148 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Enhanced Basic Knowledge of Lake Sturgeon ID #: 2980-8001 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Papst, Fudge, M.R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent "dedicated' vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Aboriginal Fishing Communities.
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 14.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 43.2 Totals: 0.2 14.2 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 43.2 [ Description
I Working with aboriginal Fisherman at Cumberland House Saskatchewan investigae the fish habitat factors effecting the production of Lake Sturgeon. Determine if availability of spawning habitat is currently limiting the population of LakeSturgeon and develop methodology to assess the early development needs of Lake Sturgeon.
Expected Results I Develop a Key to Lake Sturgeon gonad development, locate spawning habitat near Cumberland House, and work with community to develop field monitoring program.
page 149 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Experimental Ecosystems Section
This program emphasizes whole ecosystems research projects, primarily centered at the Experimental Lakes Area. (ELA) projects include; research related to the Long Range Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants (LRTAP); the effects of physical destruction of Fish Habitat such as Hydro Electric reservoir; Research related to the movement of and effects of contaminants such as mercury on the freshwater aquatic ecosystem. This program is also responsible for coordinating the joint DFO/University research projects at ELA and for the development of new joint research initiatives.
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Project Information
Title: Experimental Ecosystems Section Planning ID #: 2981-8100 Region: and Admin
Scientist/Manager: Hecky, R. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Section Scientists
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.2 48.6 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 68.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 68.6 Totals: 1.2 48.6 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 68.6 , Description I I Administers funds and personnel for the Section. Plans future experiments and funding initiatives. Coordinates inter-sectional, inter-divisional, and inter-agency studies, and joint initiatives with universities. Covers costs of sectional service requirements i.e. phones, environmental chambers which are mutually used, shipping, etc. Lead partner shipping effects for ELA program.
Expected Results I Efficient operation of section, financial control development of new joint venture studies, for example experimental forest study with Ontario blending new programs and activiteis with ongoing experiments.
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Project Information
Title: Effect of Littoral Habitat Alteration on ID #: 2981-8101 Region: Productive Capacity of Northern Pike
Scientist/Manager: Campbell, P. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.0 65.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 65.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 53.0 0.0 0.0 53.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 118.1 Totals: 1.0 65.1 0.0 53.0 0.0 0.0 118.1
Description L I Alteration/destruction of littoral habitat can have serious ramifications for many important fish species such as northern pike. Frequently, fish habitat managers are without the knowledge base required for taking decisions necessary to implement the "no-net-loss" policy. One problem of particular concern is the potential impact of aquatic macrophyte removal. For northern pike, aquatic macrophytes are an important source of food; they also provide cover necessary for successful YOY survival. This project will use small, shallow, single-predator (pike) lakes in the ELA to establish the relative importance of key physical, chemical and biological determinants of pike reproductive success and growth. The focus will be on aquatic macrophytes. A whole-lake macrophyte removal experiment is planned to be carried out on Lake 191 in 1997. Note: Hecky 0.05 PY; Cruikshank 0.1 PY; Turner 0.03 PY; Findlay 0.05 PY; Campbell 0.8 PY.
Expected Results
The results from these studies should be emenable to "universal" application by fish habitat managers on temperate, northern pike lakes situated in the Canadian Shield. They will be useful to managers responsible for establishing policies, issuing licences or permits on the lake, in relation to littoral habitat alterations; particularly with regards to harvesting, removal or other destruction of aquatic macrophytes.
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Title: Lake 302 North Acidification ID #: 2981-8104 Region: Effects/Amelioration
Scientist/Manager: Hecky, R. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers. Natural resource Industry (mining).
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.0 60.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.3 0.0 0.0 36.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 96.3 Totals: 1.0 60.0 0.0 36.3 0.0 0.0 96.3
Description
Examine the efficacy of phosphorus addition as a modifier of internal alkalinity generation & thus as a potential stimulator of lake acidification. Clarify the operation & role of the nitrogen cycle in suppressing acidification. Examine the potential of phosphorus atmospheric deposition as a mitigator of the impact of acidification on fish habitat.
Expected Results
Monitor recovery of lake water chemistry and biology; evaluate P addition as a cost effective means of accelerating lake recovery; address knowalage gaps related to N-loading models and their dependence on N:P atmospheric loading ratios.
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Title: Ecosystem Interpretation and Special Projects ID #: 2981-8107 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hecky, R. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Environmental Protection Agencies; Universities (Canada & U.S.)
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.2 86.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 WB-M 0.0 0.0 0.0 200.0 50.0 0.0 250.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 340.0 Totals: 1.2 86.0 0.0 204.0 50.0 0.0 340.0
[ Description
Coordinate university funded research with ELA program, providing assistance with field studies and historical data, these joint studies are conducted on a cost recovery bases through Joint undertaking agreements. Studies include: toxic algal blooms (C. Trick Western Ont.); Study of N-cycle (S. Schiff Waterloo Ont.); Biomanipulation study (R. Sterner U of Minnesota); PCB cycling (S.J. Eisenreich U of Minnesota). Contractual research and consultation with international agencies on African Great Lakes and with Canadian resrource industries. NOTE: WB-MAL represents Bbase World Bank - Malawi Contract; Hecky 0.5 PY; Ryland 0.1 PY; Turner 0.3 PY; Hendzel 0.2 PY; Campbell 0.2 PY.
Expected Results
Increased knowlage related to freshwater fish habitat and increased utilization of ELA through Joint studies with Universities, international agencies and Canadian private sector.
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Project Information
Title: National LRTAP Biomonitoring Program ID #: 2981 - 8109 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Davies, I. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.5 27.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 27.7 Totals: 0.5 27.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.7 L Description ELA is one of eight sites in four DFO Regions where annual monitoring is undertaken to assess the biological & chemical impact of changing LRTAP deposition. ELA is the major baseline (uncontaminated) station for the national program.The program seeks to demonstrate whether the decreases in sulphate deposition that are projected to result from industrial emission controls are sufficient to produce biological as well as chemical change in aquatic systems. Alternatively, if emission controls are ineffective, the program will provide evidence of continued biological deterioration due to acidification.
Expected Results
Provide new information to national program.
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Project Information
Title: Cooperative Uplands Experiments and ID #: 2981-8110 Region: Modelling
Scientist/Manager: Hecky, R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 1 00% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 46.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 46.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 64.1 0.0 0.0 64.1 LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 113.2 Totals: 0.8 46.1 0.0 67.1 0.0 0.0 113.2
Description
As a part of a joint study with the cooperative harvest studies at Atikokan (Ontario) develop understanding of the geomophologic, edaphic and vegetative influences of runoff to lakes from anumber of small watersheds; as a contribution to reference systems for the joint forestry study. In addition, joint research is undertaken with Waterloo University. NSERC funding on nitrogen cycling in upland catchments contribute to the extensive joint study. NOTE: Hecky 0.05 PY; Beaty 0.05 PY; McCullough 0.65 PY.
I, Expected Results Reference systems developed for comparision with clear-cut areas and evaluation of timber harvest effects on water quality and fish habitat, including acidification effects of high nitrogen loading.
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Project Information
Title: Algal Physiology ID #: 2981-8112 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hendzel, L. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information i
(AU money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.4 20.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.4 20.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 I Description i Develop and conduct a program of algal physiology research to measure the effects of environmentally significant variables on the development of nutrient deficiencies in laboratory cultures and lake populations of algae. Adapt, improve, and asses new methodologies to procure more pertinent and accurate nutrient deficiency Data. Participate in whole lake experiments as the ELA Regional representative of the Phytotoxin Working Group which advises DFO rechearch on phytotoxins and other harmful aspects of algal blooms. Maintain and make available to others a culture collection of freswater algae and provide necessary culturing expertise.
Expected Results 1 Provide data and evidence of the significance and the role that algae, withe varying degrees of nutrient deficiency, have on the foodweb within the freshwater ecosystem.
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Project Information
Title: Experimental Refrence Systems ID #: 2981-8113 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Kasian, S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 26.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.5 26.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 I, Description Examination of long-term bio-geo-chemical, meteorological, and hydrological data sets from the ELA observatory to quantify natural variation and responses to long-term perturbations such as climate change. Development of data analysis protocols for multi-disipinary data and for comparing results of whole-lake experiments to expected regional variation.
I, Expected Results I Methods for analyzing and descriptions of decade long regional trends in unmanipulated freshwater ecosystems. Objective statistical methods for interpreting whole-lake experiments. Reductions in the numbewr of variables monitored. Minimized error in data analysis.
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Title: Long-term Analysis of Fish Populations & ID #: 2981-8114 Region: Physical Habitats
Scientist/Manager: Mills, K. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Natural Resources Industry.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 13.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 126.1 0.0 0.0 126.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 139.8 Totals: 0.2 13.7 0.0 126.1 0.0 0.0 139.8 I, Description Analyze long-term data sets to establish relationships between lake trout and lake whitefish productivity and physical characteristics of fish habitats. Determine the relationship between northern pike productivity and littoral zone macrophyte coverage. Continue development of ELA Oracle database.
I, Expected Results A series of empirical relationships beween lake trout and lake whitefish productivity and physical characteritics of lakes; estimates of lake trout and lake whitefish productivity will be completed in 1995/96 and these will be compared to the physical features of each lake where productivity is calculated. Completion of macrophyte surveys will occur in a lake in preparation for removal of approximately 50% of the cover in 1996/97; productivity of the northern pike population will be completed for the years prior to the removal. The database data entry will continue.
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Project Information
Title: Lake 221 Biomanipulation Experiment ID #: 2981-8115 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Mills, K. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1536 (Environmental Impact of Exotic Species) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fisheries & Fish Habitat Managers.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.4 22.8 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 27.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 27.8 Totals: 0.4 22.8 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 27.8
Description
The food web of Lake 221 was changed by addition of northern pike in 1987 to test the effects on the community composition of all other trophic levels of the lake. In 1994, all the northern pike were removed from Lake 221 to start the recovery phase of the experiment. Water chemistry and lake biota are monitored each year.
I Expected Results Analysis of results for the years of pike residency in Lake 221 will be completed in 1995. As the food web returns to its re-addition structure, the rest of the lakes' biota will eventually revert to its pre-manipulation condition.
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Project Information
Title: Lake 223 Acidification Effects/Recovery ID #: 2981-8116 Region: Experiment
Scientist/Manager: Mills, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fisheries & Fish Habitat Managers; Natural Resources Industry.
Financial Information i
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 1.2 63.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.9 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.2 0.0 0.0 63.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 127.1 Totals: 1.2 63.9 0.0 63.2 0.0 0.0 127.1
Description
Allow pH of Lake 223 to rise to its original value and monitor changes in water chemistry and lake biota as pH increases. In 1995 was the second year of monitoring with no acid additions or target pH objectives. This is the second year of the final pH recovery phase of the experiment. Monitoring of water chemistry and lake biota will occur.
Expected Results I Lake pH will be similar to that in 1994 - 6.7 - which is identical to that before any acidification occured. Biotic recovery will continue at the accelerated trend documented in 1994. •
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Title: Lake 382 Cadmium Addition/Recovery ID #: 2981-8117 Region: Experiment
Scientist/Manager: Mills, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers. Natural resource Industry (mining).
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 13.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 24.2 Totals: 0.2 13.7 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 24.2 I, Description Whole-lake cadmium addition experiment was started in 1987 to test the Canadian Water Quality Guidelines for the protection of aquatic biota. After reaching the Canadian standard, additions ceased to monitor recovery of water chemistry and lake biota.
Expected Results
1995/96 is the third year in the recovery phase of the experiment. Monitoring water chemistry and lake biota will continue so the effects of bioaccumulation of cadmium by aquatic biota can be monitored.
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Science Project Inventory 1995-96 Science Sector Project Information
Title: Lake 302 South Acidification Effects Experiment ID #: 2981-8118 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Turner, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers. Natural resource Industry (mining); Environmental Agencies. Financial Information
-, I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 46.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 46.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 104.6 0.0 0.0 104.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 151.0 Totals: 0.9 46.4 0.0 104.6 0.0 0.0 151.0 I, Description i Hold Lake 302S at pH 4.5 for the third year. Monitor chemistry at biweekly intervals. Undertake biological studies to investigate: the ecology of the metaphyton bloom and of periphyton; the response of zoobenthos, and in particular, of chironomids in terms of species composition, biomass and productivity; the response of phytoplankton in terms of productivity, species composition and biomass; the response of the zooplankton, in terms of species composition and biomass;the response of the fish population. NOTE: Turner 0.5 PY; Hendzel 0.15 PY; Findlay 0.1 PY.
Expected Results i -, Investigation of recovery of Lake 302S at pH 5.8.
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Title: Algal & Microbial Research ID #: 2981-8119 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Findlay, D. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Researcheres using ELA & ELA data.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 25.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) Totals: 0.5 25.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 L Description I Research the effects of eutrophication, acification, metal contaminants, and lake level variations on phytoplankyon, periphyton, and bacterial communities as part of whole-lake studies. Monitor phytoplankton in natural (unmanipulated) lakes to use as reference points for assesing the effects of experimental whole-lake pereturbations for study of natural variablity in long=term data sets. Reconstruct the histories of experimental lakes using paleolimological techniques.
Expected Results
Algal communities are important components of aquatic ecosystems and are senitive indicators of many aquatic perturbations. Results are documented in the scientific literature.
page 164 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Experimental Lakes Area Observatory
This program includes the projects related to maintaining the ELA facility and providing support services at the site. Support programs include the maintenance of the hydrological, atmospheric and limnological sampling projects. This program also contains the ELA data - base program which is developing a long term user friendly data base from the 25 years of ELA studies.
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Project Information
Title: ELA Observatory Planning and Management ID #: 2982-8200 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Shearer, J. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish Habitat Managers & Researchers.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (Aft money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 51.8 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 56.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 EXT 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 59.8 Totals: 0.9 51.8 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 59.8 I Description Managerial support is provided in the administration of a year-round field station, with laboratories, accommodations and support services for the use of researchers studying the ELA ecosystems. Also included, as part of the research support, are a network of boats, motors and land vehicles which facilitate access to the lakes and watersheds, a network of hydrological installations, and a comprehensive meteorological station. A significant refit of the station has been proceeding for several years, and plans are being developed for continued upgrading, probably in the context of a different, more broadly-based, operating arrangement.
Expected Results
1. Coordinate and administer financial support for routine ELA field and station operations and ensure that Observatory monitoring programs are coordinated with other research activities at the ELA; 2. Plan and coordinate special upgrading and maintenance of ELA facilities (roads, bridges, buildings, supply systems) as needed, and as funding permits; 3. Coordinate and carry out activities related to the Canada/Ontario MOA for the ELA, including operations of the ELA Management Board, and public relations and communications initiatives; 4. Manage and participate in other outreach initiatives to ensure that knowledge of ELA research activities and results is available to other researchers, to resource managers, and to the interested public; 5. Participate in activities designed to foster partnerships with other agencies and private corporations.
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Project Information
Title: Experimental Lakes Area Hydrological Network ID #: 2982-8201 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Beaty, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 15.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 19.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 32.4 0.0 0.0 32.4 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.0 0.0 0.0 22.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 73.4 Totals: 0.3 15.0 0.0 58.4 0.0 0.0 73.4 L Description The Experimental Lakes Area Observatory Program conducts long-term monitoring of meteorological, hydrological and limnological conditions in reference and experimental ecosystems. The facility includes a network of hydrological installations. A data set for key hydrological parameters has been accumulated on-site for up to 26 years on a variety of lakes and streams.
Expected Results I 1. Maintain approximately 23 hydrological weirs, 6 recording lake level stations, 4 wetland water table recorders, and 8 lake staff gauges; 2. Disseminate data on hydrologic measurements to interested clients and stakeholders; 3. Contribute flow and water level data to the WSC national database on an annual basis; 4. Assist with closure of the Lake 979 outflow dam, and monitoring of the hydrologic components for the Lake 979 wetland flooding study and the Lake 632 reference wetland; 5. Oversee and provide consultation assistance for the hydrological program in the OMNR Atikokan study lakes; 6. Assist with hydrological aspects of the L226 drawdown study.
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Title: Experimental Lakes Area Meteorological ID #: 2982-8202 Region: Program •
Scientist/Manager: Beaty, K. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 21.6 0.0 0.0 21.6 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 41.6 Totals: 0.3 15.0 0.0 26.6 0.0 0.0 41.6 L Description The Experimental Lakes Area Observatory Program conducts long-term monitoring of meteorological, hydrological and limnological conditions in reference and experimental ecosystems. The facility includes a comprehensive meteorological station. A data set for key meteorological parameters has been accumulated on site for up to 26 years. • -
1, Expected Results a) Maintain meteorological station and collect data twice daily or as required. b) Disseminate data on meteorological measurements. c) Contribute data to the AES national database on a monthly basis.
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Title: Experimental Lakes Area Limnological Field ID #: 2982-8203 Region: Support Scientist/Manager: Cruikshank, D. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 45.1 0.0 10.0 12.0 0.0 67.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 33.0 3.0 0.0 36.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 128.1 Totals: 0.9 45.1 0.0 68.0 15.0 0.0 128.1 , Description I I The Experimental Lakes Area Observatory Program provides a facility in support of experimental research and conducts long-term monitoring of meteorological, hydrological and limnological conditions in reference and experimental ecosystems. The work includes the experimental treatment of lakes and watersheds for research into ecosystem-scale processes affecting fish habitat. Also included, as part of the research support, are a network of boats, motors and land vehicles which facilitate access to the lakes and watersheds.
Expected Results I a)Maintain vehicles required for transport to and from field station and sampling sites. b)Maintain portage trails, docks, curtains, and other field installations. c)Sample approximately 25 lakes for chemistry, temperature, zooplankton and other limnological parameters. d)Add acids and fertilizers and maintain targets according to experimental design. e)Publish reports summarizing data collected.
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Project Information
Title: ELA Station Operations ID #: 2982-8205 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Shearer, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1412 (Technical Support) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish Habitat Managers & Researchers.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.3 48.3 7.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 125.3 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 150.0 0.0 0.0 150.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 200.0 0.0 200.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 475.3 Totals: 1.3 48.3 7.0 220.0 200.0 0.0 475.3 L Description The Experimental Lakes Area Observatory Subsection provides an on-site facility in support of experimental research and long-term monitoring. A year-round field station, with laboratories, accommodations and support services, is provided for the use of researchers studying the ELA ecosystems.
Expected Results
1. Provide and maintain field station facilities for up to 50 research personnel at any given time during May through October, and up to 20 persons at other times; 2. Continue building maintenance and upgrading as required to provide a safe and comfortable environment for on-site personnel, as needs dictate and as funding permits. Installation of a water treatment system is a major goal for 1995; 3. Construct and/or renovate buildings to provide improved four-season residential accommodations for full-time staff, and to provide indoor facilities for storage and maintenance of vehicles and other field equipment, contingent upon receipt of special funding.
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Project Information
Title: ELA Database and Atlas ID #: 2982-8206 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Shearer, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1412 (Technical Support) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish Habitat Managers & Researchers.
Financial Information I
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 44.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 49.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 79.0 Totals: 0.8 44.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 0.0 79.0
Description
The Experimental Lakes Area has, since 1967, been the site of a large number of experimental research activities as well as long-term monitoring of meteorological, hydrological and limnological conditions in reference and experimental ecosystems. The program includes a network of hydrological installations, and a comprehensive meteorological station. More than 70 data sets for key limnological, hydrological and meteorological parameters has been accumulated on-site for up to 27 years on a variety of lakes and streams. An important opportunity exists to enhance accessibility to the ELA data base and historical experimental program, by consolidating most of these data sets within an accessible central electronic database, and by developing a widely available compendium of the information available from the ELA and its individual lakes.
Expected Results
1. Completion of database conversion to fully operational Oracle Version 7 with full security; 2. Enhancement of database system through addition of more data sets and/or application modules, as resources permit; 3. Initiation of linkages and application development which will permit detailed lake summaries for the Atlas to be produced from the database; 4. Initial linkages of ELA database with similar databases from Dorset and Turkey Lakes for regional analysis and State of Environment reporting. Dependent on continued SOE funding; 5. Possible installation of Atlas to an ELA Internet Home Page.
page 171 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Food Chain Studies Section
This program consists of research projects related to primary and secondary productivity and the interaction of these processes on fish habitat productive capacity in perturbed and unperturbed freshwater ecosystems. The program also conducts research related to the effects of trophic levels on the movement of contaminants in whole ecosystems. Research is conducted related to the productivity of low slope river systems and the use of benthic indicator species.
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Project Information
Title: Food Chain Section: Planning and ID #: 2983-8300 Region: Administration Scientist/Manager: Fee, E. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) nil
Clients: Section Scientists.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.1 77.0 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 94.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 94.0 Totals: 0.1 77.0 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 94.0
Description
Administer funds and personnel for the Section; plan experiments and funding initiatives; coordinate inter-sectional, inter-divisional, inter-agency and university-joint initiatives.
I, Expected Results Effective program administration.
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Project Information
Title: Lake Variability Study: NW Ontario Lake Size ID #: 2983-8301 Region: Series
Scientist/Manager: Fee, E. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 1.5 96.7 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 101.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 116.7 Totals: 1.5 96.7 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 116.7 1 Description Determine the sensitivity of lake ecosystems to meteorological inputs, climate change, and environmental perturbations; relationship between watershed characteristics and lake morphometry & biological productivity & community structure.Six lakes in the Red Lake District of northwestern Ontario have been regularly monitored since 1986. These lakes form a logarithmic series in surface area, from 88 to 34,700 ha. Variables being measured include water chemistry,phytoplankton and zooplankton species composition, fish populations, photosynthetic rates and temperature profiles.
Expected Results
Complete 10th year of field sampling from size series lakes. Complete manuscripts on findings for publication.
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Project Information
Title: Flooded Wetland Study of Hg at ELA ID #: 2983-8302 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Rudd, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Hydro Electric Industry.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 1.0 62.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 62.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 75.2 0.0 0.0 75.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 137.3 Totals: 1.0 62.1 0.0 75.2 0.0 0.0 137.3 Description L I A whole-ecosystem experiment is being carried out to improve understanding of the reasons for elevated concentrations of mercury in fish taken from hydroelectric reservoirs. Production and bioaccumulation of methyl mercury were followedfor two years in two wetlands that contained a central pond. One of the wetlands was then flooded and changes in factors controlling methyl mercury production and bioaccumulation are being followed for a further three years.
1 Expected Results A mercury model will be developed to predict severity and duration of mercury contamination of fisheries in man made reservoirs.
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Project Information
Title: Effects of Wetland Flooding on Flux of ID #: 2983-8303 Region: Greenhouse Gases to Atmosphere Scientist/Manager: Rudd, J. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Hydro Electric Industry.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 1.0 62.1 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 63.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 63.2 Totals: 1.0 62.1 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 63.2 L Description A whole-ecosystem experiment is being carried out to determine if hydroelectric reservoirs are significant sources of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane were followed in two wetlands for two years prior to flooding. One of the wetlands was then flooded and changes in fluxes of the greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are now being followed for a further three years.
Expected Results 1 Fluxes of both mehtane and carbon dioxide from reservoirs up to 100 years old will be measured to determine magnitude and duration of these elevated fluxes.
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Project Information
Title: Zooplankton Ecology and Zoogeography ID #: 2983-8305 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Salki, A. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 0.4 20.8 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 23.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 23.8 Totals: 0.4 20.8 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 23.8 I, Description A number of studies are examining the role of zooplankton in freshwater communities. Questions addressed include: How do changes in zooplankton production affect fish productivity? How does drawdown of hydroelectric reservoirs affect zooplankton communities? How do changes in zooplankton affect the transfer of contaminants to fish? How do zooplankton communities vary in lakes of different size? This latter question is important for scaling results from small ELA lakes to larger systems, such as the Great Lakes.
1 Expected Results Results from these studies are essential to the development of models predicting how changes in zooplankton production and community structure affect fish productivity and contaminant burdens. These models will be used to guide remedial action plans.
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Title: Interactions of Contaminant Loadings ID #: 2983-8306 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Paterson, M. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.6 75.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 75.9 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): ELARP 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 77.9 Totals: 1.6 75.9 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 77.9
Description
A series of whole-ecosystem experiments is examining how variations in food web structure and trophic conditions affect the accumulation of contaminants by fish. One study is determining how differences in nutrient loadings affect chemical and biological cycling of organochlorines and mercury (Hg). A second study is examining how flooding associated with hydroelectric reservoirs affects mercury uptake by zooplankton and other invertebrates. The effects of flooding and drawndown on invertebrate and fish production are also being examined in these and other experiments.
Expected Results
These projects will be used to develop improved models for predicting contaminant burdens in fish. Results will guide the development and implementation of remedial strategies for reducing contaminant burdens in fish.
page 178 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Stream and Littoral Invertebrate Community ID #: 2983-8307 Region: Studies
Scientist/Manager: Flannagan, J. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information -, I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.8 118.1 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 121.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.5 0.0 0.0 42.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 163.6 Totals: 1.8 118.1 0.0 45.5 0.0 0.0 163.6 Description
I To develop methods for study of aquatic invertebrates and to expand understanding of their role in the maintenance of river ecosystems, including nutrient and contamination sources and pathways, to facilitate detection, evaluation and/or prediction of fish habitat disruptions.
Expected Results I Contiue with studies, focusing on impacts of water diversion projects on low slope rivers.
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Title: Benthic Invertebrate Studies ID #: 2983-8308 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Rosenberg, D. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; DOE, Hydro Electric Industry.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 2.0 136.6 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 139.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 . 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 139.6 Totals: 2.0 136.6 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 139.6
Description
Understand how environmental perturbations affect the roles of benthic invertebrates in the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems, and determine how these perturbations produce the changes observed in impacted ecosystems. Develop a biomonitoring system using benthic macroinvertebrates for the Fraser River catchment. The approach establishes reference conditions against which the impacted condition can be compared. Multivariate models are involved
Expected Results
Impact on invertebrates will be assessed for experimental resevoir creation and lake drawdown. The importance of inverebrates in trophic-level transfer of organomercury to fish will be determined as part of the resevoir study. A biomonitoring system based on macroinverebrates will be developed for the Fraser River. The protocol will be available for routine water quality monitoring.
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Title: Chironomid Emergence from ELA Lakes ID #: 2983-8309 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Davies, I. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 26.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 28.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Acid 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.6 0.0 0.0 16.6 SF 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.6 0.0 0.0 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 55.0 Totals: 0.5 26.0 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 55.0 L Description The abundance, biomass and species composition of the most prevalent benthic organisms (i.e. chironomids) are monitored as part of the food-chain work in five ELA lake baisns. The work provides evidence of biological recovery from experimental acidification (3 basins), and gives background data for a new resevoir drawdown experiment (2 basins)..
Expected Results
Acidification greatly modified chironomid community structure and diversity. Biological recovery is expected to lag increases in lake alkalinity and pH. A summary manuscript is planned.
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Title: Phytoplankton Ecology and Taxonomy ID #: 2983-8310 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Kling, H. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 41.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 43.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 43.0 Totals: 0.8 41.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 43.0 I, Description Investigate the response of freshwater phytoplankton and protists to chemical, physical and biotic environments and to environmental change (climate and input of toxic materials) as expressed in the population dynamics, distribution and morphological variation of these organisms and in paleo-limnological records. Funding in the form of supplies recieved from a variety of FVVI Projects.
Expected Results
Completion of numerous manuscripts.
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Algal Ecology and Physiology Title: ID #: 2983 - 8311 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Guildford, S. Arctic content (est) 30%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.6 32.7 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 36.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 36.2 Totals: 0.6 32.7 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 36.2 I, Description I Define and understand the relationships between algae and their resources by a combination of field measurements, laboratory experiments, and hypothesis generation and testing. Activities are carried out in a number of Regions to encompass the natural variability in size, temperature, and geology of aquatic environments, and to understand the effects of various cultural phenomena such as eutrophication and toxification.
Expected Results
Data on phytoplankton nutrient status in lakes along a size gradient and relationships with physical, chemical and biological variables in the lakes are being published.
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Title: Biomonitoring at ELA ID #: 2983-8312 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Davies, I. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: National Environmental Program; Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 26.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.0 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Acid 0.0 0.0 0.0 28.3 0.0 0.0 28.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 54.3 Totals: 0.5 26.0 0.0 28.3 0.0 0.0 54.3
Description
Four lakes at ELA act as reference systems for the National Acid Rain Biomonitoring Program. Water chemistry (4x), Fish, Benthos and Hydrology data are collected annually according to a standard protocol at this site. Identical monitoring is carried out at six other locations in eastern and atlantic Canada. I. Davies also acts as the chair and programme centre for the national working group. The program is linked to international monitoring efforts through the Norwegian Institute for Water Research. (NIVA).
Expected Results
1995 samples have been collected and are being processed. Benthic samples are being identified by a taxonomist. Data are being prepared for bulk loading into the national Oracle database.
page 184 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Fish Biology Section
This program contains the fish and fish habitat research group. Researchers in this program conduct research directly related to fish habitat protection. Projects include; research related to the effects of and operation of reservoir; environmental factors effecting the productive capacity of fresh water fish habitat; the effects of water flow on the productivity of fish habitat in low slope river systems.
page 185 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Influence of Organic Matter on Hg Availability ID #: 2985-8501 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Bodaly, D. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Hydro Electric Industry.
Financial Information I
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 15.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 GP To 0.0 0.0 0.0 58.7 0.0 0.0 58.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 73.9 Totals: 0.2 15.2 0.0 58.7 0.0 0.0 73.9 Description I The effect of organic matter loading on a prairie river system on the availability of methyl mercury to fish is being investigated. The initial year's research is concentrating on the contribution of treated domestic sewage on methylmercury concentrations in the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Future year's work will involve other organic sources.
Expected Results i Understanding of mercury dynamics in river systems under the influence of organic matter inputs will be produced. Advice and models will be provided to habitat managers and regulatory agencies and others (e.g. City of Winnipeg).
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Title: Lake 226 Drawdown ID #: 2985-8502 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Bodaly, D. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Hydro Electric Agencies. Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.4 89.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 89.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 159.8 Totals: 1.4 89.8 0.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 159.8 I, Description I This whole lake manipulation expriment, being carried out at the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario, is investigating the habitat and productivity effects of winter water level drawdown, simulationg water level changes in ahydroelectric reservoir. Lake 226, a 16 ha oligotrophic lake, will be subject to drawdown of up to 3 m in winter and 2 m in summer. The results will allow assessment of drawdown effects in reservoirs in the absence of other confoundingenvironmental impacts.
Expected Results
I Understanding of the habitat, fish population, and fish productivity impacts of water level manipulations for the purpose of hydroelectic energy production. Advice and models are provided to habitat managers, and hydroelectric utilities.
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Project Information
Title: Mercury in Fish in Hydroelectric Resevoirs ID #: 2985-8503 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Bodaly, D. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 12.6 Totals: 0.1 7.6 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 12.6 Description
I Mercury in fish in actual hydoelectric reservoirs are monitored to determine the degree and duration of elevated concentrations. Uptake of mercury by fish in an experimental reservoir is investigated to determine uptake pathways, todetermine increases in concentration, to predict environmental impacts, and to provide mitigation solutions.
Expected Results
I Advice and models are provided to habitat managers, regulatory agencies, and hydroelectric utilities (e.g. Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, B.C. Hydros) and others (e.g. native groups).
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Title: Littoral Fish Habitat Dynamics ID #: 2985-8504 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Franzin, W. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (AU money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 48.1 0.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 54.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.2 0.0 0.0 42.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 96.3 Totals: 0.7 48.1 0.0 48.2 0.0 0.0 96.3
Description
An examination of the quality, abundance and diversity of littoral (<3 m) fish habitat and its correlation with fish abundance, community structure and stabiltiy over a range of lake sizes. Data are being collected and analyzed in amanner to facilitate input to G.I.S. Similar work is ongoing in the Assiniboine River as an example of a lowslope prairie river. Data are being collected in collaboration with FHM staff to test applicability of IFIM models to fishhabitat/instream flows.
I Expected Results Complete analysis of littoral fish habitats in ELA "variability lakes" the Assiniboine River and in a draw down experiment in L. 226.
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Project Information
Title: Limnology and Fisheries of Lake Winnipeg ID #: 2985-8505 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Franzin, W. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 20.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 20.6 Totals: 0.3 20.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.6 Description I Review physical and biological environment of Lake Winnipeg. This 3 year literature review will culminate in the production of a special publication. Some sample collection will be made from major tributaries on east side of the lake.
Expected Results I Begin special publication of Lake Winnipeg biology.
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Title: Genetics of Coregonid Fishes ID #: 2985-8506 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Bodaly, D. Arctic content (est) 25% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 13.1 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 17.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 17.1 Totals: 0.2 13.1 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 17.1
{ Description
This research investigates the genetic similarities and differences among whitefish species, races and local populations, concentrating on northern, freshwater locations. Isozyme analyses, DNA sequencing, and other genetic methods are utilized. Investigations using population genetics techniques include impacts of industrial developments on genetic stock structure of populations (e.g. Churchill River diversion and Lake Winnipeg regulation projects), and also evolutionary and zoogeographic questions.
Expected Results
An understanding of the impacts of various developments on the genetic resources of whitefish populations and species. Advice is provided to habitat managers, regulatory agencies, and hydroelectric utilities.
page 191 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Aquatic Chemistry Sub Section
The Aquatic chemistry sub section provides water chemical and nutrient analysis for all the programs in the division and region. Services are provided on a cost recovery basis for operating costs not including salaries. The program maintains a analytical data base and conducts research related to methods development. The program also contains the stable isotope research project, which receives extensive eternal funding.
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Title: Aquatic Chemistry Sub-Section Planning and ID #: 2986-8600 Region: Admin
Scientist/Manager: Stainton, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish Habitat Managers & Researchers.
Financial Information I
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 0.1 6.1 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 9.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 9.1 Totals: 0.1 6.1 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 9.1 , Description I I Provide overall planning function for the program, along with required administrative support, to facilitate the management of resources utilized by the program staff in common.
Expected Results I Management of Winnipeg and ELA analytical Facilities
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Project Information
Title: Stable Isotope Assessment of Food Source & ID #: 2986-8601 Region: Contaminant Transfer
Scientist/Manager: Hesslein, R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish Habitat Managers & Environmental Agencies
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.4 105.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 105.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 58.2 0.0 0.0 58.2 PERD 0.0 0.0 0.0 54.0 6.0 0.0 60.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.0 Sust. Fi 0.8 Total Project Costs (est) 247.8 Totals: 2.2 129.6 0.0 112.2 6.0 0.0 247.8 Description L I The stable isotopes of sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen are used to define food sources and trophic structure in lakes and rivers. This information is used in the understanding and prediction of contaminant pathways as well as the assessment and prediction of impacts of habitat manipulation on habitat utilisation by aquatic biota. Not included above are analyses for Sustainable Fisheries and GLAP efforts for the Great Lakes and ELA totalling about $35K. NOTE: ABASE PY's are 1.0 for Hesslein and 0.4 for Capel (0.6 secondment to Informatics). SF PY - 0.25 of PY has been approved to date.
Expected Results 1 Assessment of freshwater organic matter to the estuarine food chains of Hudson Bay. Carbon flow, trophic structure and contaminant transfer L.Winnipeg and L. Ontario.
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Title: Analytical Methods Development ID #: 2986-8602 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stainton, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science- general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information -, I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 24.6 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 28.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 28.6 Totals: 0.4 24.6 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 28.6 Description I Develops and tests methods and instrumentation in response to the needs of the Winnipeg and ELA service labs and research staff of the Fish Habitat Research Division.
Expected Results I Satisfactory Development of new methodoogy to meet the analytical requirements of the analytical lab and other division projects.
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Title: Analytical Services, ELA Laboratory ID #: 2986-8603 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stainton, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 35.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 37.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 37.4 Totals: 0.8 35.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 37.4 L Description The ELA Analytical Services Project provides analysis of precipitation, lakewater and streamwater in support of various monitoring programs and experimental ecosystem manipulations conducted at ELA. The presence of on- site analytical capability is necessary to obtain meaningful data on perishable nutrients and metabolic gases, and to give useful feedback to experiments in progress. Provide additional support to ELA researchers through access to equipment andtechnical advice. Analyse data and prepare reports. * NOTE - Projected O&M charge backs (per sample basis) of 47K to various clients, both internal and external to the Division, at ELA are not shown.
Expected Results
Data reported to laboratory clients of the ELA facility
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Project Information
Title: Analytical Services, Winnipeg Laboratory ID #: 2986-8604 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stainton, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.4 63.7 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 67.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 67.7 Totals: 1.4 63.7 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 67.7
Description
The Winnipeg Analytical Services Project provides for the analysis of precipitation, fresh, brackish and marine waters, sediments and tissue for approximately 30 client research projects at F1M and in the Region. The Project maintains a sample archive & generates chemistry dBase IV files, available to users in either PC or VAX "Ethernet" environments. Produces data analyses and data reports, provides advice and training to other staff and graduate students on request.* NOTE - Projected charge backs O&M (per sample basis) of 103K to various clients, both internal and external to the Division/ Region/Department, are not shown.
Expected Results
Data reported to the laboratory clients of the Winnipeg analytical lab.
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Title: Quality Assurance/Quality Control ID #: 2986-8605 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stainton, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 24.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 26.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 26.4 Totals: 0.5 24.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 26.4 Description
I Provide protocols and facilities to allow both individual (Sub)Section analysts and client researchers to confirm the quality of data produced. In addition to providing tools for self-regulation, it is the responsibility of this Project to analyse QA/QC data on a monthly basis and to identify and correct problems as they occur.
Expected Results
Maintenence of QA/QC guideline for laboratory facilities. Reports on participation in national QA/QC networks. Laboratory certification.
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Project Information
Title: Aquatic Chemistry Research and Data Analysis ID #: 2986-8607 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Stainton, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 42.9 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 44.9 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 44.9 Totals: 0.8 42.9 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 44.9 I Description I Analyse information, design experiments and develop procedures to collect appropriate chemical data from manipulated and from monitored aquatic ecosystems.
Expected Results i Development of aquatic chemical database.
page 199 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Toxicology Research Section
The Toxicology Research Section consists of four research scientists and five biologists whose work is focussed on examining the effects of contaminants on freshwater species, communities and ecosystems and conducting associated research. The Section Leader is the Scientist -in -charge of the whole lake cadmium experiment taking place at the Experimental Lakes Area with funding from the Toxic Chemicals Program. This project is a multidisciplinary effort involving a number of sub-projects by members of the section. The toxicity, fate,and effects of cadmium added to a Precambrian Shield lake is the main objective, while others include the testing of the adequacy of thr Canadian Water Quality Guideline for cadmium to protect organisms in soft water and develop early wamin indicators of impending toxicity to fish and other aquatic organisms. In the final phase of this project , remediation techniques for cadmium-affected waters are being tested., as well as modelling the fate of cadmium in water, sediment and the food chain.
Sub-projects include the study of behavioural changes due to the presence of toxic chemicals in the water, as well as the effects of toxic chemicals on growth and reproduction of fish.
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Title: Toxicology Section - Administration ID #: 2924-0000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Malley, D.F. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers & Researchers.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 20.4 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 28.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 28.4 Totals: 0.3 20.4 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 28.4
Description
Facilitate freshwater ecotoxicological research by Section members which is significant, timely, goal-directed to meet DFO program needs and/or to provide new basic or applied scientific knowledge. Participate in activities outside FWISL which promote understanding of ecotoxicological research, freshwater research, conservation and protection of aquatic resources and the ecosystem approach. Allocate and manage Section finances and manage Section administration. Review the design and progress of the Lake 382 cadmium whole lake experiment. Participate in regional and national sustainable development activities. 0.2 PY - Malley; 0.1 PY - Chang.
Expected Results
Coordinate workplanning, conference planning, contract preparation, employee appraisals, staffing action, classification reviews, and training. Allocate and oversee expenditure of Section resources. Evaluate implications of purchase cards for the management of Section finances. D. Malley and S. Brown continue as Scientists-in- Charge of the Lake 382 Whole lake experiment. D. Malley to participate in regional and national sustainable development activities and aquatic ecosystem health activities. Provide a contract for the maintenance of fish stocks being reared for ecotoxicological experimentation
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Project Information
Title: Cadmium in a Lake Ecosystem ID #: 2924-2401 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Malley, D.F. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 2.7 158.0 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 160.5 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.2 0.0 0.0 36.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 196.7 Totals: 2.7 158.0 0.0 38.7 0.0 0.0 196.7
Description L I Determine the toxicity, pathways, fate, and effects of cadmium in a Precambrian Shield lake at ELA. Test the adequacy of the present Canadian Water Quality Guideline for cadmium to protect aquatic organisms in soft waters. Develop early warning indicators of impending toxicity of cadmium to fish and other aquatic organisms. Develop a dose-response relationship between cadmium concentrations in water and sediment and body burdens of planktonic, benthic, and free-swimming organisms to be used in interpreting biomonitoring data. Model the fate of cadmium in water, sediment, and the food chain. Develop and test remediation techniques for cadmium-affected waters. Manage and analyse the database for the zooplankton of the cadmium lake and most other ELA lakes. In field tests examine the influence of metal mixtures on cadmium bioavailability and toxicity. Explore the feasibility of using rapid, non-chemical near-infrared spectoscopy for the measurement of organic content and quality in seston and sediments and of biochemical changes in mussels under stress. This project involves a team of researchers from other projects (Lawrence, Holoka, Brown, Evans, McNicol, Hara), other sections (Klaverkamp), other divisions Expected Results L I Observe chemical fate and biological recovery in water, sediments, and biota of the cadmium whole lake after 6 years of cadmium additions. Support the FHR contribution to the experiment consisting of fish population monitoring, meterology, hydrology, primary production and phytoplankton community analysis. Coordinating input of data for the testing of a model of cadmium fate and effects in the food chain. Coordinate the publication of a set of papers on the experiment in CJFAS. N.B. The loss of 35 K of GLAP 2000 funds obtained for this project in 1994/95 means that the zooplankton population samples from 1994 and 1995, pelagic insect and benthic biomonitoring samples from 1995, will not be processed. Sampling of Lake 382 will be reduced to keep down costs of transportation and ELA per diems. Experiments on the toxicity of the cadmium whole lake sediments to a variety of organisms will be postponed.
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Project Information
Title: Endocrine/Reproductive Toxicology ID #: 2924-2402 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Brown, S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 46.1 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 48.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.2 0.0 0.0 12.5 0.0 0.0 12.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 60.6 Totals: 0.9 46.1 0.0 14.5 0.0 0.0 60.6
Description
This project investigates the toxicological mechanisms of toxic contaminants on fish growth, reproduction and development. The aims of the project are: a) to understand the progression of toxicity of high-priority pollutants from the molecular level to effects at the whole fish level, b) to identify biochemical, hormonal and physiological biomarkers and bioindicators in exposures to contaminants which will prove useful in studies on feral fishes. The project has ongoing collaborative studies with several other DFO projects: Fish Health and Response Monitoring (Klaverkamp), Whole-Lake Cd Addition (Malley), Pulpmill Monitoring (Lockhart), Estuarine Fish Monitoring (Fairchild, DFO Moncton), Histopathology and Morphometrics (Evans) and Behavioral Ecology/Toxicology (McNicol). 0.7 PY - Brown; 0.15 EG Term
Expected Results
The project develops diagnostic tools and contributes to the understanding of linkages (cause-and-effect) between responses at the biochemical, hormonal and physiological levels to those observed in individuals and populations from polluted environments. Changes in hormonal/reproductive or biochemical function often precede, but could also result from disturbed physiological processes. It is thus conceivable that toxic chemicals will induce alterations in these systems early in the development of toxic syndromes. Therefore, it is anticipated that early and sensitive indicators of toxicity may be obtained, along with insight of toxic mechanisms, by studying the possible interference of toxic pollutants in endocrine/reproductive systems. After responses are validated, techniques and knowledge are applied to feral fish populations. Recently the project has focussed on the effects of Cd, planar halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons ('dioxin-like' compounds), pulpmill effluents and 'Early Mortality Syndrome' in salmonids from the Great Lakes_
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Project Information
Title: Microbial and Invertebrate Toxicology ID #: 2924-2403 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lawrence, S.G. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) 50% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) 50% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in St() Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 2.0 120.9 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 123.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 B-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 135.4 Totals: 2.0 120.9 0.0 14.5 0.0 0.0 135.4
Description
This project monitors the cadmium whole lake for cadmium fate in the water column and its particulate fractions. It serves as the basis for the effects work in the lake by other projects (Malley, Brown) and sections (Klaverkamp). It also evaluates responses of microbial communities in ELA lakes to stressors such as acid, organic contaminants, excess nutrients, and heavy metals. Responses include population dynamics, trophic level interaction, and physiological processes. Application of exoenzyme assay techniques to microbes of soft water lakes is explored. 1.0 PY - Lawrence; 1.0 PY Holoka.
Expected Results
Understanding of the role of microbial communities in the fate of heavy metals and organic contaminants in soft water lakes. Microbial activities at the sediment-water interface will be examined to better understand the processes by which cadmium leaves the water column and becomes adsorbed to the sediment. In the long term, the project produces information on which proposals for remediation and models of recovery can be based. Binding of cadmium with seston and various types of sediment in the cadmium whole lake experiment will be studied through geochemical fractionation and measurement of the quality of the organic matter. This is to allow adjustments to a cadmium fate model to bring it closer to modelling the behaviour of cadmium in an actual ecosystem and allow it to predict how long it will take for the cadmium in the water column to fall to pre-experimental levels.
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Title: Neuro-/Endocrine Toxicology: Chemosensory ID #: 2924-2404 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Hara, T. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
(All money figures are Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL in SK)
A-Base 1.0 84.6 0.0 14.5 0.0 0.0 99.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 99.1 Totals: 1.0 84.6 0.0 14.5 0.0 0.0 99.1
Description
Chemoreception, as a set of primary senses mediating fish behaviour including feeding, reproduction and migration, is vulnerable to dysfunction under a wide-range of environmental stresses. The fish nasal mucosa containing high levels of biotransformation enzymes such as cytochrome P-450 metabolizes various xenobiotics as well as endogenous compounds and selectively accumulates toxic organics such as TODD. Heavy metals such as Cd are selectively sequestered in the olfactory bulb. The distribution, accumulation and transformation processes of xenobiotic chemicals within the system disrupt function, which results in disruption in chemical communication leading to reduced or failed recruitment of fish species. The objectives of this project are to determine the limits and mechanisms of detection by the fish chemosensory system of water-borne substances relevant to behaviour and the deleterious effects of environmental stresses on subsequent physiology and behaviour.
Expected Results
Complete study on "bile acids as possible pheromones in lake char'. Continue to characterize chemical feeding stimulants for salmonids, aiming to develop artificial feeding stimulants. Study the behavioural responses of lake whitefish to putative reproductive pheromones, and possibly how these responses are affected by Cd exposure (with R.-McNicol). Continue to standardize monitoring of behavioural patterns of lake char and other salmonids and examine the effects of long-term exposure to Cd (with M. Berkes). Continue collaborative work on olfactory system of larval sea lampreys (with B. Zielinski, U. of Windsor). Pending funding from the Whitehall Foundation, initiate study on spatial coding of odour information and its role in fish reproduction.
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Title: Neuroendocrine Toxicology: Histopathology ID #: 2924-2405 Region: and Morphometrics
Scientist/Manager: Hara/Evans, T.J. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.9 46.8 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 48.8 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.5 0.0 0.0 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 54.3 Totals: 0.9 46.8 0.0 7.5 0.0 0.0 54.3
Description
{ The project investigates effects and mode of action of contaminant stress on fish using histology, hitochemistry and morphometry. For the whole lake Cd experiment, fish samples will be taken from L382 and a reference lake. The experiment, fish samples will be taken from L382 and a reference lake. The backlog of white sucker analyses for Cd experiment will be done and the 1987-95 datafile updated. Gill tissues (on microslides) from fish exposed to Yellowknife diamond mining effluent will be evaluated and a report prepared. A Contract from CANMET is anticipated to analyse fish tissues from Val-d'Or for biomonitoring of metal mining effluent and to prepare a report. This project operates collaboratively with others in the Ecotoxicology Section (Brown) and those in other sections (Klaverkamp, Lockhart). 0.9 PY - Evans.
Expected Results
One field trip (Sept. 95) of 4 days to ELA will provide 48 fish, via gill netting, for tissue sampling. Tissue indices of growth, reproduction and other parameters will be analysed for Cd effects. Data will be appended to the 1987-95 masterfile for Cd L382. Most of the whole lake Cd experiment backlogged white sucker tissues will be analysed and the datafile updated. A report will be prepared for Klaverkamp relating to diamond mining effluent effects on lake char gills. A contract will be awarded by CANMET and subsequently tissues will be analysed and a report prepared outlining metal effluent effects on selected fish species from Val-d'Or Quebec.
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Title: Behavioural Ecology/Toxicology ID #: 2924-2406 Region:
Scientist/Manager: McNicol, R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.0 52.0 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 54.5 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.5 0.0 0.0 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 61.0 Totals: 1.0 52.0 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 61.0
Description
The project investigates effects of environmental contaminants on fishes and aquatic invertebrates at the whole- animal behavioural level. The overall long-term objective is to contribute to the understanding of mechanisms leading to effects of contaminants at sublethal concentrations such as can be used to interpret the responses of fish populations to stress, for example, the ELA cadmium whole lake experiment. Specific responses under investigation relate to some key mechanisms determining structure and function of populations and communities: habitat selection and maintenance, orientation, swimming performance, migration, feeding, predator-prey interactions. This project studies the above whole-animal responses in collaboration with several projects, including the ELA cadmium whole lake experiment (Malley), studies on toxicity of effluents from diamond mine operations in NWT to fish (Klaverkamp), studies on toxicity of organic contaminants (e.g. planar halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons) to fish (Brown), and effects of metals on chemosensory responses of fish ( Hara).
Expected Results
Understanding of effects of exposure to Cd, diamond mine effluent, and organic contaminants on locomotor activity, predator-prey interactions, and chemosensory systems of lake whitefish, lake charr, and other species, and how these whole-animal responses relate to those at the cellular and sub-cellular (biomarker) level. To understand avoidance responses of these species to contamintants, such as Cd and diamond mine effluents, and how a fish's environment can inhibit or enhance such responses.
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Title: Circulating Hormones, Gonad Morphology and ID #: 2924-2407 Region: Vitamin Analyses in Burbot
Scientist/Manager: Brown/Evans, S.B. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 50% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 50% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.3 18.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 NRBS 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.9 0.0 0.0 24.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 43.3 Totals: 0.3 18.4 0.0 24.9 0.0 0.0 43.3
Description
The project monitors reproductive indices in fish collected by Northern River Basins Study Board. The objective is to deterrriine the effects of relevant industrial discharges, especially pulp mill effluent, on endocrine systems, reproductive processes and vitamin metabolism of fish. Present evidence links exposure to pulpmill effluent to reproductive impairment, defects in steroid hormone function and imbalances in vitamin metabolism in fish. 0.2 PY Brown; 0.1 PY Evans.
Expected Results
a) Complete steroid hormone analyses, assessment of gonad morphology and hepatic vitamin (retinoids & tocopherol) analyses in fish collected by NRBS during the 1994 Basin-Wide Burbot Collection Project. b) Prepare draft and final synthetic reports.
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Title: Laboratory Study of Burbot Oxygen ID #: 2924-2408 Region: Requirements
Scientist/Manager: Brown, S. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 0.2 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NRBS 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.1 0.0 0.0 24.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 30.7 Totals: 0.2 6.6 0.0 24.1 0.0 0.0 30.7
Description
L I Project determines the effects of reduced dissolved oxygen upon gonad development and maturation of adult burbot, Lota Iota, and developmental success of the offspring at water temperatures appropriate to the period of hypoxia in major rivers of the study area.
Expected Results i a) Definition of the temporal changes in reproductive hormones, identify changes in blood electrolytes, hemoglobin hematocrit, and blood oxygen content, and evaluation of the viability of the eggs and sperm for this species under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. The results will produce bioindicators of reproductive performance as a tool for long-term montioring of the levels of stress experienced by spawning fish in the NRB Study Area.
b) Prepare draft and final reports.
page 209 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Environmental Toxicology Section
The Environmental Toxicology Section conducts research on molecular and cellular mechanisms of action of contaminants in fish and macro-invertebrates; evaluates biochemical and cellular responses to these contaminants for use as early-warning indicators of stress or as biomonitors of fish health; and develops methods for detecting and quantifying metals and factors influencing their bioavailability. Research is focussed on the development of field bio-monitoring approaches relevant to mining issues with applications to uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan, diamond mines in the N.W.T., gold mines in the NWT, and base-metal mining in northern Manitoba and the Arctic; and investigating fundamental mechanisms of organochlorine toxicology to fish with applications to the reproduction/recruitment failure of the lake trout population of Lake Ontario.
The Section also provides analytical services for metals and trace elements to other projects, e.g. Arctic Contaminants, and the E.L.A.
The Section Leader participates on national, multi-stakeholder committees on mining issues (AQUAMIN and AETE-CANMET), and contributes to the development of an Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM) Program for mining in Canada.
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Title: Environmental Toxicology Section: ID #: 2925 -2500 Region: Administration
Scientist/Manager: Klaverkamp, J.F. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Fish Habitat Managers & Researchers.
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 13.7 0.0 10.1 0.0 0.0 23.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 28.8 Totals: 0.2 13.7 0.0 15.1 0.0 0.0 28.8 , Description I I Administration and management of the Environmental Toxicology Section (Collator 2925) Resources were allocated to cover: Publication costs Travel to governmental workshops and meetings Administrative costs e.g. communication, computer hardware and software, training and development, office supplies, and charge-backs from Management Services
Expected Results i Continue to administer and manage the Environmental Toxicology Section.
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Project Information
Title: Biochemical Toxicology ID #: 2925-2501 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Klaverkamp, J.F. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Mining and Natural Resource Industry
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 39.2 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 46.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 46.2 Totals: 0.7 39.2 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 46.2 I., Description Develop methods and conduct research on fundamental mechanisms of toxicology in order to provide and interpret molecular and cellular responses useful as early-warning indicators of contaminant-induced stress in fish and macro- invertebrates. Adverse effects of contaminants on fish and macro-invertebrate health are assessed by parameters ranging from general evaluations of nutritional status to specific contaminant-induced effects on distinct proteins, enzymes and vitamins. Collarborative efforts with projects on higher levels of biological organization are undertaken to determine the relevance of molecular and cellular responses and their predictive capabilities to reproduction and recruitment failure. Knowledge developed is applied to B-Base programs, e.g. the attached Green Plan projects, Fish Health Monitoring (2925-2503) and Metal Mining Effects (2925-2504), and to other Governmental Programs, e.g. AQUAMIN, AETE-CANMET, EEM-Mining, GL-2000, Northern Rivers Basin Study, and Climate Warming.
Expected Results
Evaluate metallothionein as relevant bio-indicator for incorporation into EEM for Metal Mining: Participate in the Aquatic Effects Technology Evaluation program of CANMET. Final improvements to the analytical method for metallothionein will be finished, and the manuscript will be completed and submitted to a primary scientific journal. Fish will be sampled in 1995 for the ninth year of the whole-lake experiment on effects of cadmium on biota of Lake 382, Experimental Lakes Area. Manuscripts describing cadmium accumulation, metallothionein, and other biochemical and cellular responses in fishes of Lake 382 will be completed. Northern Rivers Basin Study: To complete our contract with the Northern Rivers Basin Study, we will analyze metallothionein content of the remaining 298 samples and prepare a report. Climate Warming baseline: To provide a baseline on the effects of climate warming on metal accumulation in fish, white sucker and lake trout page 212
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Title: Environmental Chemistry ID #: 2925-2502 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Klaverkamp, J.F. Arctic content (est): 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Mining and Natural Resource Industry Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base: 1.6 91.6 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 98.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est): 98.6 Totals: 1.6 91.6 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 98.6 Description
I Develop methods, perform chemical analyses and conduct research on the detection and quantification of metals and other trace elements in water, sediments, and biota from temperate and Arctic aquatic environments. Samples are obtained and analyzed from undisturbed and polluted natural systems in order to obtain fundamental baseline knowledge, and to provide perspective and relevance to metal concentrations and their adverse effects on fish health and fish consumers. This project serves the mining interests of the C & A Region, the E.L.A. and the Arctic. In 1994/95 analyses were perfomed (see details listed below) on samples obtained from mine sites (4 projects; nos. 1 through 4), the E.L.A. (2 projects; nos. 5 & 6), and the Arctic (2 projects; nos. 7 & 8). ***Funding allocations from B-Base programs are unknown, but sources will likely include Diamond Mining, Uranium Mining, and Arctic Contaminants.
Expected Results
, I This Project will continue to provide analytical services to programs such as: 1. Diamond mining effluent toxicity testing: These studies required 2633 analyses of water and fish tissues from lethal and sub-lethal toxicity tests; 2. Diamond mining baseline studies: Analysis of fish tissues ( 1,000 assays) for eight toxic metals from several lakes around Lac du Gras, NWT; 3. Uranium mining - northern Saskatchewan: Impact of uranium mining on sites downstream of the Rabbit Lake Mine and the Key Lake Mine in northern Saskatchewan; 4. Gold Mining - Yellowknife Bay: Study of fish, water and sediment to assess the impact of two gold mining operations on Yellowknife Bay; 5. ELA whole lake cadmium; 6. ELA whole lake acidification recovery experiment; 7. Atmospheric mercury/metal deposition in Arctic lakes; 8. Marine mammal toxic metals work (Lockhart) in collaboration with Makivic Corp. and Michael Kingsley. Research and monitoring on Regional mining operations provide the Project Leader with expertise that is directed toward activities such as AQUAMIN and Aquatic Effects Technology Evaluation - CANMET. Reports and manuscripts on completed accomplishments will be published in 1995/96. page 213
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Title: Fish Health Monitoring ID #: 2925- 2503 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Klaverkamp, J.F. Arctic content (est): 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Mining and Natural Resource Industry Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base: 1.5 86.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 86.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 85.0 0.0 0.0 85.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est): 171.5 Totals: 1.5 86.5 0.0 85.0 0.0 0.0 171.5 L Description Fish health diagnostic tests developed in the FWI-Annex laboratory are applied to fish from contaminated habitats. The tests, consisting of biochemical and cellular responses, include general indicators of fish health, as well as more contaminant- specific responses, such as metallothionein and Mixed Function Oxidase induction, and contaminant-, including radionuclide- , free-radical terminating mechanisms ("oxidative stress"). To help in interpreting the relevance of these tests to recruitment and reproduction failure, sex and thyroid hormone concentrations in plasma, and histology of thyroid and gonads are measured. Collaboration with projects studying higher levels of biological organization verifies the predictive capabilities of these health diagnostic indicators.
Expected Results
1. Completion of five manuscripts, which will also comprise the Ph.D. thesis of V.P.Palace, describing research on mechanisms of organochlorine toxicity in fish and the application of that research to lake trout from Lakes Ontario and Superior. This also requires the completion of analyses of samples from adult lake trout collected from Lakes Ontario and Superior during 1994; 2. Studies initiated on organochlorine toxicity to lake trout under GL-2000 funding during 1994/95 by S.Brown will be completed under this project. These include: a) Completion of analyses of eggs, fry and adults from experiments conducted on Early Mortality Syndrome in Lake Ontario lake trout in collaboration with J. Fitzsimmons and S.Brown; b) Refine analytical methodologies for thiamine and its' esters; c) Pursue causative role of thiamine deficiency in producing Early Mortality Syndrome, and help to understand mitigative role of thiamine treatment in fish hatcheries by determining the seasonal variation of thiamine in Great Lakes fish, interlake variation in thiamine in Great Lakes fish, and thiamine transfer to fish from lower trophic levels: 4. Complete mechanistic laboratory study on effects of oroanochlorines on lake trout reproduction and on page 214
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Title: Metal Mining Effects Study ID #: 2925 - 2504 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Klaverkamp, J.F. Arctic content (est): 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Federal & Provincial Fish Habitat Managers; Environmental Agencies; Mining and Natural Resource Industry Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base: 1.0 60.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.4 0.0 0.0 29.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est): 89.9 Totals: 1.0 60.5 0.0 29.4 0.0 0.0 89.9 Description I Effects of base-metal, diamond, uranium and gold mining on fish, macro-invertebrates and their habitats are reviewed and assessed. Uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan were selected for intensive study in 1994/95 because: 1. long-term cumulative impacts on organisms in receiving waters are unknown, 2. there is and will be substantial expansion of these mines currently and in future years, and 3. they are of unique and considerable importance to C and A Region. ***Funding allocations from B-Base programs are unknown, but sources will likely include Diamond Mining - Northwest Territories (Environment Canada), and Uranium mining sources (AECB, Saskatchewan, Environ. Canada)
Expected Results I The Project Leader will continue to be involved in reviewing EIS's for uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan. Uranium Mines - Northern Saskatchewan: A graduate student will begin investigations on the accumulation, distribution and toxicology of contaminants associated with uranium mining activities on lake whitefish. If funds are available, concentrations of contaminants associated with uranium mining activities will be determined in tissues of fish collected at uranium mine sites in 1994. The data describing concentrations of contaminants in sediment cores and fish tissues and of metallothionein in fish tissues will be presented in scientific reports and manuscripts. Diamond Mine Effluents: Data collected in the study of diamond mine effluents will be analyzed and a report and a scientific manuscript prepared. If funds are available, we will investigate further the source of the observed acute lethality and sub-lethality. A proposal is being prepared for submission to DOE - NWT to investigate further the causative agents for the toxicity of these effluents. The Project Leader is a member of an EIS review panel and will be aresentina results at Public Hearinas. A literature review on the bio-availabilitv. accumulation. distribution page 215 Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington
Director's Office - J. Cooley Ecotoxicology Division - M. Whittle Fish Habitat Studies Division - V. Cairns Restoration Activities supported by the Clean Up Fund in: - Hamilton Harbour (V. Cairns) - Lake Superior & St. Mary's River (J. Kelso) DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Office of the Director, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences
The Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (GLLFAS) is part of the DFO's Bayfield Institute at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW). The focus of the program is to carry out research on fish habitat in the Great Lakes and some inland lakes with emphasis on both structural (or traditional) and water quality aspects of habitat. The Laboratory objectives are:
❑ to provide the understanding and knowledge necessary to ensure the long term protection and enhancement of the fishery resources of the Great Lakes and the habitat which sustains it; and
❑ to meet research commitments contained in bilateral agreements (such as the Canada/US Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement) on the Great Lakes, with the United States and the Province of Ontario (Canada/Ontario Agreement and Canada/Ontario Fisheries Agreement).
The GLLFAS research program in Burlington is also integrated with and part of the Central and Arctic Region Science program that is headquartered at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg. The research programs at both Institutes are highly complementary and have a number of common objectives. Both laboratories have strong programs in ecotoxicology and "acid rain".
The work of GLLFAS is divided into two Divisions: 1) Fish Habitat Studies; and 2) Ecotoxicology. The Divisions with slightly different focuses, represent complementary approaches to the total array of problems confronting the Great Lakes aquatic ecosystem, with each Division differing in its need for sub-disciplinary expertise and logistic support.
The office of the Director also includes two Secretaries who provide support to both Divisions. The Director of GLLFAS reports to the Regional Director of Science in Winnipeg.
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Project Information
Title: Directors Office - Great Lakes Laboratory for ID #: 2920-2000 Region: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Scientist/Manager: Cooley, J. (A) Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) nil
Clients: All federal departments involved with the GL2000 program, provincial agencies 9e.g. MOEE, MVR) involved with the Can/Ont Aggreement, IJC, GLFC, U.S. federal & state agencies involved in the Can/U.S. GLWQA, Fish Habitat Mgmt programs in the Region. Financial Information I
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 3.0 151.2 10.0 10.4 4.0 0.0 175.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 175.6 Totals: 3.0 151.2 10.0 10.4 4.0 0.0 175.6 , Description I 1 The Directors Office is responsible for providing overall management to the two operational Divisions that comprise GLLFAS. Secretarial support is also provided for the Laboratory. The Director allocates A base and term resources in order to meet Federal DFO commitments in the Canada/U.S Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
I, Expected Results I The Directors Office provides a vehicle for the delivery of program results by virtue of his membership on a number of Federal/Provincial/International committees including: Canadian Co-Chair of IJC Council of Research Managers and member of Water Quality Board; member of IJC Priority and Planning Committee; member of GLFC's Habitat Advisory Board; member of federal GL2000 subcommittee; member of Bay Area Implementation Team (for Hamilton Harbour); member of Canada/U.S. Binational Executive Committee; etc. The Directors office regularly provides DFO Great Lakes 2000 program progress reports to DOE as the lead federal agency. The office is also the focal point for the review of numerous documents such as Remedial Action Plans Stage 1 & 2 and provides reccomendations on projects submitted for funding from the Great Lakes Clean-Up Fund.
page 217 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Ecotoxicology Division
The Division consists of 5 research scientists, 3 chemists, 2 biologists, 7 technicians and a PDF all stationed at CCIW in Burlington. The Division is responsible for DFO commitments under the Canada/US Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) related to research, assessment and monitoring of toxic chemicals. This binational agreement is implemented in Canada under the Canada/Ontario federal provincial cooperative agreement (COA). Under the DFO Green Plan Toxic Chemicals Program, several projects within the division are focused on common national toxic chemical issues represented in the Great Lakes environment. In addition to these research and monitoring studies, a database on basin wide toxic chemical information is being established as part of the DFO national Contaminants Information System. The management of the DFO annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop and the publication of the Proceedings is the responsibility of Division staff and this activity is also funded by the Green Plan Program.
The scientific activities of the Division cover the impacts of contaminants throughout the entire foodchain. Studies range from identifying the shifts in productivity of plankton caused by releases of sediment bound toxic chemicals to population level physiological assessments of the impact of industrial effluent discharges on all elements of fish communities. Extensive monitoring and assessment field projects are conducted throughout the basin. An environmental bioassay laboratory in Burlington is equipped to support a large number of controlled environment exposures to individual chemicals or complex effluents. Analytical chemistry support is provided by sophisticated assortment of instruments. These range from atomic absorption spectrophotometers, several types of gas chromatographs, a low resolution mass spectrometer and an upgraded high resolution mass spectrometer operated in collaboration with DOE staff at CCIW. There has been an increasing amount of collaborative research with professors at several Canadian universities, scientists with US government agencies and European scientists from governments, universities and industry. Application for joint funding of these projects has been increasingly successful over the past 2 years.
Division staff serve on more than 40 international, interdepartmental, departmental and regional scientific committees and workgroups. They hold associate teaching positions at 4 local universities and serve as reviewers, editors and editors-in-chief for 10 Canadian and international scientific journals. There are 6 graduate students enrolled in MSc and PhD programs working directly with Ecotoxicology Division scientists. Publications and presentations of findings exceeded 100 in 1994/95. Currently staff of the Division are officers or presidents of 3 major scientific organizations and will serve as convenors and sessions chairs at several major international scientific conferences in 1995/96.
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Project Information
Title: Ecotoxicology Division Bioassay Laboratory ID #: 2921-2100 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Blunt, B. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 50% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 50% 1535 (Toxic Chemicals Data/Advisory Services) nil
Clients: Scientists, Biologists, Graduate students conducting environmental toxicology and reproductive physiology research on fish and fish habitat. Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 22.4 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 37.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.6 33.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 33.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 70.4 Totals: 0.6 55.4 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 70.4
Description
This Project provides support services to all the users of the Ecotoxicology Bioassay (Wet) Lab. These support facilities include fish holding and exposure facilities, a water treatment and temperature control system with an emergency back-up facility for these services plus freezers, incubators, centrifuges, computer terminals and a variety of routine laboratory instrument systems. Much of the Ecotoxicology Division's laboratory based program is dependent on the use of this bioassay facility with controlled exposure systems to validate some of the observed field responses to contaminant stresses. The bioassay laboratory and associated support services provides an area to carry out long term experiments with a variety of test species which support a variety of projects which assess biological community responses to a variety of chemical stresses. This facility is used to support cooperative studies with other government agencies and universities.
Expected Results
Provision of holding facilities and exposure systems for fish and invertebrate bioassays in support of projects and cooperative studies of 10 scientists and biologists from DFO, DOE and up to 6 graduate students from Canadian universities (Guelph, Waterloo, Trent, McMaster, Windsor). Continue to provide and maintain all required ancillary support systems and office space for the successful completion of a variety of toxic chemical exposures carried by Physical and Chemical Sciences Programs to assess biological responses of Great Lakes fish and aquatic communities. Provide laboratory space for the completion of studies in support of Biological Sciences Programs. This common user facility is unique to CCIW and provides support to all projects requiring a temperature controlled flowing water environment.
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Project Information
Title: Food Chain Dynamics and Contaminant ID #: 2921-2101 Region: Bioaccumulation
Scientist/Manager: Servos, M. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 80% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 20% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) 25 days on Launch (@ .2K/day)
Clients: DOE (Great Lakes LaMP & RAP Committees), Fisheries Resource Managers
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.2 10.2 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 15.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 20.2 Totals: 0.2 10.2 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 15.2 1, Description This project is designed to integrate chemical, biological and biochemical measurements with modelling of persistent organic contaminants in Great Lakes food webs to be able to predict the potential bioaccumulation in different sites (Lakes), the influence of environmental change on movement of chemicals in complex food webs, the potential fish production, and the physiological responses in fish. This project will utilize the expertise of several ongoing projects to develop contaminant trophic transfer models which will contribute to predicting the influence of biological, chemical and physical change (stress) on the bioaccumulation of contaminants and ultimately the potential success of remedial actions within the Great Lakes.
Expected Results
Differences in the environmental conditions (physical, chemical and biological) among sites leads to differences in the bioavailability and movement of contaminants in various food webs. Environmental change (eutrophication, species invasions, remediation, etc) will significantly alter the structure and flow of energy in ecosystems and therefore the bioaccumulation of contaminants. The proposed development and subsequent application of trophic transfer models and stable isotope foodchain relationships will provide the linkages required to make predictions of the significance of these differences and changes in the environment. Those agencies responsible for regulating levels of contaminant discharge will require these predictive models to prepare effective and relevant pollution prevention legislation.
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Project Information
Title: Toxicant Identification using Aquatic ID #: 2921-2102 Region: Invertebrates
Scientist/Manager: Borgmann, U. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 20% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 80% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) 1 days on Launch (@ .2K/day)
Clients: DOE, OMEE, US EPA, IJC and Private Sector Consultants. Collaboration with Canadian Universities.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 2.3 120.2 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 145.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 145.4 Totals: 2.3 120.2 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 145.2 Description L 1 Rapid, reliable and efficient test procedures for identification of chemicals responsible for toxicity in environmental samples (with emphasis on metals and organometals) will be developed, primarily by defining the body- burden:toxicity relationship in invertebrates. These procedures will be used in the field to identify toxicants causing decreased invertebrate production, and to determine the safety factor (difference between current concentration and toxic threshold) for those metals and organometals present at less than toxic concentrations. Remediation of chemically impacted areas requires accurate identification of the chemicals responsible for toxicity. Chemical concentrations in water and sediments are not satisfactory indicators of contaminant impact. Toxicity is affected by pH, hardness, alkalinity, complexation, adsorption, and other factors. Metal accumulated by aquatic organisms provides a potentially far more useful indicator of toxicity because only the bioavailable form of the toxicant is accumulated.
Expected Results
Studies on chronic toxicity (survival, growth and reproduction) and accumulation of tributlytin in Hyalella will be completed, along with determination of the nature of the uptake curve and the effect of body size on accumulation. Copper and zinc concentrations in Hyalella and sediments will be measured in samples from spiked Hamilton Harbour sediment and Manitouwadge and Loken Lake sediments from recently completed toxicity experiments. Experiments will be initiated to determine copper, zinc, cadmium and lead availability for sediments from various sites in Hamilton Harbour to determine if these metals are actually contributing to toxicity in the Harbour. Data on uptake, depuration, and toxicity of waterbome lead in Hyalella will be analyzed and written up. Studies to determine toxicity and bioaccumulation in sediments spiked with lead will be initiated. A minimum synthetic medium for Hyalella will be developed to allow testing of individual ion effects on toxicity, and standardization of toxicity tests. Managers developing remediation plans for metals contaminanted sites will require these data in order to focus restoration activities on the most significant toxicants at a site. page 221 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector
Project Information
Title: Assessment of Threshold Exposure Levels for ID #: 2921-2103 Region: Biological Effects of P&P Mills Effluents
Scientist/Manager: Munkittrick, K. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 80% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 20% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) 20 days on Launch (@ .2K/day)
Clients: DFO (Environmental Science Br. & Fish Habitat Management), DOE (EP)
I, Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.4 19.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 4.0 Toxic 0.4 23.0 0.0 182.1 0.0 0.0 205.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 228.8 Totals: 0.8 42.7 0.0 182.1 0.0 0.0 224.8 L Description Recent work conducted by DFO has identified that the threshold responses for MFO induction in wild fish exposed to bleached kraft mill effluent from some mills is <0.5% effluent, that some steroid hormone responses were seen at thermo-mechanical and sulfite mills, and that current regulatory testing could not predict these effects on wild fish. We have now developed a laboratory-based protocol which can be used to predict the presence of these steroid hormone responses after effluent exposure. These changes appear to predict impacts of pulp mill effluent on steroid function in wild fish. The assay is in the final stages of validation, and once an interlaboratory comparison has been completed, we will evaluate the effects of different bleaching strategies and waste treatment strategies on the potential of pulp mill effluents to disrupt steroid function in fish.
Expected Results
We are trying to develop laboratory assays for studying the effects of pulp mill effluent on the ability of fish to produce the hormones which control the rate and efficiency of reproductive development. We have shown that pulp mill effluent disrupts the ability of the fish to control the levels of production and circulation of steroid hormones. The first two years of the project produced protocols for exposing fish to pulp mill effluent and demonstrating effects of effluent exposure on production of steroids. The assays will be used to determine whether its possible to make generalizations between mills, and will aid in the further identification and delineation of the problem. From these studies, we would like to be able to predict what effect exposure to pulp mill effluent will have on fish in the wild, simply by exposing fish to effluent in the laboratory. These studies should help us understand the origins and ultimate fate of the chemicals responsible for the detrimental effects of pulp mill effluents on fish. Data from this study will be required as part of any future review of pulp mill effluent regulations under both CEPA or the Fisheries Act (EEM). page 222 Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Chemical Fate and Effects in Aquatic ID #: 2921-2104 Region: Ecosystems
Scientist/Manager: Niimi, A. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO (Environmental Science Br. Fish Habitat Mgt.), DOE (EP) OMNR & US EPA.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.6 42.4 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 57.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 71.4 Totals: 0.6 42.4 0.0 29.0 0.0 0.0 71.4
Description
Current ecotoxicological studies have strongly indicated the need for a closer integration among studies related to the kinetics, pharmacodymanics and toxicological effects of chemicals and aquatic ecosystem. The concern is based on the similarities in behaviour among chemicals from different groups, and the realization that most contaminated systems contain and large number of chemicals. Current views also indicate that the adverse effects of the parent compound may differ from its metabolites, hence a closer linkage is required between the ultimate fate of a chemical and its primary and secondary effects. This project will also examine the responses of these chemical products and the genetic, biochemical, cellular and whole organism levels to determine if these biomarker-type observations can be related to effects observed at the whole animal level. Part of this project will be focusing on factors that could impair reproduction in fish based on laboratory and field-related studies.
Expected Results
Current studies have been examining several issues relating to chemical toxicity. Organisms in contaminated systems are invariably exposed to an array of chemicals of varying toxicity. Our studies have indicated that the toxic potential of chemicals such as TCDD may not be fully realized because of the presence of other chemicals that are competing for the same receptor sites in an organism, other chemical classes will be examined. Our studies have also shown that some phytochemicals present in pulp-and-paper mill effluents are MFO inducers and are embryo toxins, the ecotoxicological significance of the naturally occurring chemicals are being examined. Preliminary observations have suggested reproductive impairment in lake trout may be due to vitamin deficiency, further studies will explore the role of chemical contaminants. The results from this project will be used by regulatory agencies in considering how to assess and regulate the portion of chemical mixtures in aquatic ecosystems.
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Title: Environmental Pathways and Remediation ID #: 2921-2105 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Servos, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 80% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) 20% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) nil
Clients: DOE (Remedial Action Committees, EP), Public Environmental Advisory Groups.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.2 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 10.2 Totals: 0.2 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.2 L Description I This research project is a continuing effort to model the environmental fate of organic contaminants and to link the pathways of exposure to significant and meaningful effects on biota. Bioaccumulation of organic contaminants within the Great Lakes Areas of Concern is a primary focus. Methods to isolate and identify the chemicals in industrial effluents and contaminated sediments directly responsible for biological effects are being developed, and models to predict the responses of biota to remedial actions (e.g., process changes, treatment, etc.) designed to reduce or eliminate the exposure of biota to these contaminants are being developed and validated.
I, Expected Results The primary focus will be in two major areas: 1) bioavailability of contaminants and 2) establishing linkages between effluent discharges and toxic effects on fish in the receiving environment. This will be accomplished by:* isolating and identifying the chemicals in industrial effluents and contaminated sediments directly responsible for biological responses in biota, i.e., development of TIEs with relevant biological endpoints,* describing the pathways of exposure and accumulation of toxic organic contaminants in aquatic ecosystems.* developing a predictive framework for the exposure and responses of fish to the sediment and effluent associated contaminants. Users of these findings will be clients identifying remedial actions for contaminated sites and drafting new legislation to regulate industrial effluent loadings.
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Title: Temporal and Spatial Trends of Toxic ID #: 2921-2106 Region: Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish
Scientist/Manager: Servos/Huestis, M./S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 50% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 50% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) nil
Clients: DFO (Environmental Sci. Br., Fish Habitat Mgt.) GLFC, IJC, OMEE, OMNR & DOE (LaMP & RAP Committees)
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 38.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 38.5 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 51.5 0.0 0.0 51.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 90.0 Totals: 0.7 38.5 0.0 51.5 0.0 0.0 90.0
Description
GLLFAS has been archiving tissue samples from the Great Lakes since the 1970's. Many of these samples were previously analyzed for polychlorinated dioxins, organochlorines and total PCBs. Recent advances in analytical chemistry and the recent acquisition of a High Resolution Mass Spectrometer now allow us to reexamine the samples for not only coplanar PCBs but a wide range of contaminants which until know were outside of our analytical abilities. By collaborating with other researcher teams we have been able to obtain a variety of biological samples which will allow an examination of the trophic transfer of energy and contaminants in these critical aquatic environments. Samples were carefully selected from the GLLFAS archive using the historical data base to investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of PCBs and related toxic contaminants. Because a large amount of data already exists for the archive, samples were selected to make a variety of controlled comparisons.
Expected Results
Additional field studies will collect samples from specific sites to address the trophic transfer of these chemicals and other contaminants in the environment. Data generated using new analytical techniques will be compared to that collected and reported previously. Stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon will be analyzed to define the trophic status of the fish over time. The work on mechanisms and energy flow will allow the data to be used for not only contaminant problems but also fisheries management of these complex impacted ecosystems. This research is providing new data sources to management agencies and lake managers to assist in the design of remedial actions. The work supports the interpretation of monitoring programs within the Great Lakes basin and nationally.
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Title: Development of Cumulative Effects ID #: 2921-2109 Region: Methodology
Scientist/Manager; Munkittrick, K.R. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 50% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent "dedicated - vessel time) 50% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) nil
Clients: DFO (Fish Habitat Management), NRCan, Canadian Electrical Association, Ontario Hydro
1, Financial Information Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.2 66.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 66.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 CEAA 0.0 0.0 0.0 181.0 0.0 0.0 181.0 PERD 0.0 0.0 0.0 85.0 0.0 0.0 85.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 332.2 Totals: 1.2 66.2 0.0 266.0 0.0 0.0 332.2
Description
The objectives of this study are to select key indicators which reflect the performance of fish populations within a watershed. This will be include the characterization of performance parameters in fish inhabiting undeveloped and developed reaches of a river basin exposed to multiple stressors. The project will provide a common methodology for assessing cumulative effects as it applies to the performance characteristics of fish within a watershed affected by a variety of developmental scenarios. This information will be structured into a set of guidelines and criteria to allow more effective habitat evaluations, and will include a model to assist in the prediction of effects on fish populations from proposed developments.
Expected Results I The study's first two phases will allow differentiation of the contribution of existing industrial developments versus habitat damage and habitat differences which result in the altered performance characteristics. The identification of impact sites and the subsequent comparisons to the reference rivers and upstream undeveloped reaches will allow the development of a cumulative effects assessment model which could be used to predict the responses of fish populations to future development scenarios. The study's third phase will focus on the cause and effect relationships, and attempts to quantify the relative contribution of multiple stressors to the overall response patterns. This will result in the development of a predictive model for various development scenarios and associated cumulative effects. This phase involves the subdivision of reaches to examine for evidence of response gradients associated with habitat and development variables, to confirm the dependence of performance on those selected characteristics. Information from this PERD/CEA funded project will be utlized by all agencies dealing with environmental issues related to new industrial developments or cumulative effects. page 226
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Title: Great Lakes Contaminants Surveillance ID #: 2921-2111 Region: Program
Scientist/Manager: Whittle, D.M. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 80% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) 20% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) 73 days on Shark (@ .9K/day)
Clients: DFO (Environmental Science Br.& Fish Inspection), DOE (LaMP & RAP Committees), HC, DIAND, IJC, GLFC, Fisheries Resource Managers and OMEE. Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 1.5 48.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 65.7 Toxic 0.9 51.8 0.0 134.5 0.0 0.0 186.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 300.0 Totals: 2.4 99.8 0.0 134.5 0.0 0.0 234.3 L Description 1 This GP program provides a long-term database to assess temporal and spatial trends of contaminant burdens in the Great Lakes fish community and major components of the forage base. Information from the database is utilized to determine the effectiveness of toxic chemical remedial activities within the basin and the impact of changes in the composition of the biological community on contaminant accumulation in the fish community. The project also provides a mechanism to forewarn of potential future toxic chemical problems. Participation in this binational activity represents DFO's contribution to a binational basin wide contaminants monitoring program as defined by the requirements of Annex 11 of the Canada/U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Other clients include DFO Science, Inspection, Fisheries Operations and Habitat Management, Environment Canada, and Health Canada (Health Protection Branch).
I Expected Results I An annual assessment of the trends in contaminant burdens in key fish species from each of the lakes will be provided to the binational committees of the Parties, the International Joint Commission and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission as a measure of whole lake responses to remedial actions. Completion of an evaluation of the changes in contaminant cycling dynamics in the fish community foodwebs of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario as a consequence of recent fluctuations in the composition and production of the forage base influenced the invasion of exotic species. Under Green Plan Toxic Chemicals Program, complete the identification of the accumulation patterns of recently identified priority organic contaminants in fish communities from each of the Great Lakes and an estimation of the contribution of remote contaminant sources to total Great Lakes basin loadings. The database from this project is utilized by agencies and programs requiring status and trend information on toxic chemicals in the Great Lakes fish community.
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Title: Great Lakes Fisheries Specimen Bank ID #: 2921-2114 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Kiriluk, R. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) nil
Clients: DFO (Environmental Science Br.) DOE, HC, IJC, GLFC, DIAND, OMEE, US Nat'l Biological Survey & US State Fisheries and Environmental Agencies.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 1.0 48.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 48.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.8 0.0 0.0 29.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 78.0 Totals: 1.0 48.2 0.0 29.8 0.0 0.0 78.0 I, Description The Great Lakes Fisheries Specimen Bank - GLFSB (formerly Biological Tissue Archive) has been an ongoing annual collection since 1977. Samples of aquatic biota are stored for the purpose of retrospective analysis to determine the current ecological implications of previously undetected contaminants or contaminants that had inadequate analyses in the past. Replicates of samples processed through the Contaminants Surveillance Program are archived for future detailed analyses of historical conditions. These preserved samples are representative of the Great Lakes Contaminants Surveillance Program, the National Pulp Mill Dioxin Survey, and other special projects. Ongoing experimental studies are concerned with defining collection, preservation, and storage conditions required for maximizing sample integrity for a range of contaminant classes.
I Expected Results Expansion to include a wider range of biota representative of the Great Lakes aquatic ecosystem. Completion of a report/catalogue documenting all contents of the tissue archive to provide a guide for access to historical samples or contaminant data to agencies (eg. HC, DIAND) to supplement epidemiological studies on Great Lakes fish consumers; IJC or GLFC as a measure of the success of past regulatory practices; and OMEE to supplement data collected through their long-term sportfish contaminants monitoring program. Under DFO's GP Toxic Chemicals Program, a study will be initiated related to a historical analytical review of a wider range of specimen bank sample types, representative of the lower trophic levels, for a wider range of contaminants. Studies will be initiated to investigate/define the expansion of techniques for long term storage that improve the ability to maintain the integrity of archive samples. Partners in the potential establishment of a regional specimen banking network (HC, DOE, NBS, and US. State Fisheries and Environmental Agencies) would be clients. Data users include all agencies requiring historical trend information on recently detected toxic chemicals. page 228
Fisheries and Oceans 1995-96 Science Project Inventory Science Sector Project Information
Title: Ecotoxicology Division Program Delivery ID #: 2921-2115 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Whittle, D.M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 60% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicatee vessel time) 40% 1535 (Toxic Chemicals Data/Advisory Services) nil
Clients: Binational, Interdepartmental, Departmental and Federal/Provincial Committees and Workgroups.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in Si()
A-Base 2.3 153.3 12.0 29.3 61.2 0.0 255.8 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 255.8 Totals: 2.3 153.3 12.0 29.3 61.2 0.0 255.8
Description
This project provides program travel support to staff members of the Ecotoxicology Division who are requested to attend scientific and technical meetings, workshops etc. related to environmental toxicology issues. Contributions to and attendance at these meetings etc. are not a specific part of individual science project goals but contribute significantly to the overall objective of the Division relating to the transfer of knowledge to both internal and external clients. The Program Delivery project also provides resources for the publication of general reports and scientific reviews plus the maintenance and repair of common user items held by the Division.
I Expected Results Staff will participate in workgroups, committees and task forces related to the study of environmental toxicology. These activities will be in response to the requirements of Great Lakes binational agreements, (IJC, GLFC), DFO and Interdepartmental federal commitments, (Green Plan, EEM, PERD), federal/provincial agreements, (COA, COFA) and contributions to postgraduate studies programs at Canadian universities. Staff are also routinely members of editorial boards of scientific publications, elected officers of scientific organizations and members of conference and meeting organizing committees. Science staff are members or chairs of >40 regional, national and international committees.
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Title: Ultratrace Lab and Contaminants Research ID #: 2921-2116 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Sergeant, D.B. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 40% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) 30% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) nil 20% 1532 (Toxic Chemicals Assessment) 10% 1535 (Toxic Chemicals Data/Advisory Services)
Clients: DFO (Regional Science Programs, Inspection, Habitat Mgmt.), DOE, HC, IJC, GLFC.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 2.6 126.6 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 151.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 151.6 Totals: 2.6 126.6 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 151.6 L Description The Ultratrace Laboratory provides trace and ultratrace analyses for selected persistent organic contaminants and selected metabolites in a variety of different matrices to provide data on the presence and significance of toxic chemicals in fish and fish habitats; conducts method development for analysis of emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment; provides high resolution GC/MS and GC/MS/MS capability for identification of "unknowns" in environmental samples to support research, assessment and monitoring programs; acts as scientific advisor on contracted analyses to ensure data quality: and manages an interdepartmental (DFO/DOE) High Resolution GC/MS instrument laboratory. The data generated and the methods developed are used by both DFO scientists and operations staff to assess the potential impact of toxic chemicals on fishery resources both within C&A Region and also in support of programs from other DFO regions. The laboratory directly supports the research and monitoring activities of >10 scientists and biologists the Burlington lab.
Expected Results
The Ultratrace Laboratory provides ultra-trace analyses of dioxin and furan isomers; coplanar PCBs; toxaphene; organochlorine pesticides; isomer specific PCBs, total PCBs; mirex/photomirex; chlorinated diphenyl ethers; toxaphene; PAHs; resin/fatty acids; and chlorophenols. Development and publication of analytical techniques to measure a wider variety of trace organic toxic chemicals. Continued development of a more formal QA/QC program to ensure data quality is maintained. Publication of joint research with DFO scientists and collaborators from other government departments, universities and the private sector. Continue to provide advice to multi-departmental projects such as the Northern Rivers Basin Study. The high resolution GC/MS/MS will continue to be developed to meet the needs of DFO and DOE clients for research on the identification of "unknown" toxic contaminants. The ultra-trace facility provides the analytical support for both DFO environmental toxicology studies plus support to other DFO programs (ie. Inspection, Habitat Management).
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Title: Food Web Structure and Dynamics - ID #: 2921-2118 Region: L.Ontario/L.Erie trophic transfer
Scientist/Manager: Munawar, M. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 60% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 40% 1536 (Environmental Impact of Exotic Species) 6.5 days on Limnos (@ 7.9K/day) 13 days on Lauzier (@ 6K/day)
Clients: IJC (GLWQA), GLFC, DOE (LaMP & RAP Committees), U.S. federal and state fisheries and environmental agencies, University Science Programs. Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in 5K)
A-Base 0.8 67.7 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 77.7 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 129.4 NSER 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 222.1 Totals: 0.8 67.7 0.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 92.7
Description
This is a major, multi-trophic, multi-disciplinary, multi-agency, and international project in which several scientists from federal, provincial, and university laboratories in Canada and U.S.A. are participating. The project focuses on the food-web dynamics and linkages of Lakes Ontario and Erie at the whole-lake scale. Such an integrated, complex, and interactive, structural, and functional assessment is being carried out for the first time in the Great Lakes. The synthesis will result in the development of appropriate bioenergetic model for lake management. An international modelling effort is in progress on Lakes Ontario and Erie. Three cruises are planned for the 1995 field season to collect lakewide data on lakes Ontario and Erie.
I Expected Results The following results are expected for Lakes Ontario and Erie: Characterization of trophic transfer of energy and food-web interactions; Estimation of biomass concentration and distribution of all sized organisms of the food web namely bacteria, picoplankton, ultraplankton, ciliates, heterotrophic nanoflagellates, micro/netplankton, zooplankton, fish, and benthos; Assessment of production dynamics of pelagic areas including both the lower and higher trophic levels; Measurement of whole-lake primary production and size-fractionated primary productivity; Continuation of modelling workshops for developing bioenergetic models to understand the food dynamics of Lakes Ontario-Erie and their management. The project will also contribute towards the holistic comparison of large lakes of the world. The data from this project will be utilized by fisheries and environmental agencies to develop predictive models which will allow a more effective management and regulation of the aquatic resources in the future.
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Title: Contaminants Information System - Oracle ID #: 2921-2121 Region: Database
Scientist/Manager: Whittle, D. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1535 (Toxic Chemicals Data/Advisory Services) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: : Government managers and scientists plus private sector environmental consultants.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.1 5.7 0.0 113.6 0.0 0.0 119.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 119.3 Totals: 0.1 5.7 0.0 113.6 0.0 0.0 119.3 I Description This project is funded by the Green Plan Toxic Chemicals Program entirely and its objective is to prepare a framework for the secure storage and maintenance of the wide range of toxic chemical related data sets collected by GLLFAS projects. Information is a principle product of scientific activity and this effort is to ensure that this information continues to be available to both DFO scientific staff for analysis but also senior managers for their assessment of current and historical levels of toxic chemical impact on fishery resources. The development of an ORACLE database utilizing GLLFAS information will be coordinated with similar efforts in each of the DFO regions to create both a data archive and an inventory for the national Contaminants Information System.
Expected Results
Additional individual datasets from past studies including the National Dioxin Program, Great Lakes Fish Tissue Archive, Great Lakes Fin Ray Asymmetry and the Slave River/Liard River Monitoring Program, will be loaded into the archive. An ad Hoc query and report generation procedure will be developed and implemented. Additional efforts will be directed at reviewing other appropriate historical datasets and preparing them for loading into the archive. The development of a Data Inventory will be completed based on the national protocol described by the Green Plan Data Management Workgroup. A regional server will be established in the Burlington location. The "ultimate users of this system will be managers and scientists requiring national perpectives on the state of contaminants in fish and fish habitats.l. Funds Transferred From DFO Heaquarters (MEDS) Green Plan Toxic Chemicals Program
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Title: Aquatic Toxicity Workshop ID #: 2921-2122 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Niimi, A. Arctic content (est): 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 80% 1535 (Toxic Chemicals Data/Advisory Services) (in equivalent 'dedicated' vessel time) 20% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) nil
Clients: Canadian and US Environmental Toxicology Science staff.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base: 0.2 16.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.4 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.0 0.0 0.0 11.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est): 27.4 Totals: 0.2 16.4 0.0 11.0 0.0 0.0 27.4
Description
The Annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop is the most important meeting of its kind in Canada. It is organized by a local committee, and has been held in a different region of Canada each year since 1974. These Workshops are attended by about 250-300 people from the public and private sectors and universities, and the format strongly encourages information exchange between individuals as well through platform and poster presentations. The Workshop also serves as a focal point for various intergovernmental working groups, and special interest groups, to meet at the same time.
Expected Results
DFO has been the lead group in coordinating this Workshops, and printing the Workshop Proceedings as a DFO Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Technical Report. The 1995 Workshop will be held in St. Andrews, NB, and hosted by DFO. The 1996 Workshop in Calgary, AB, will be hosted by private sector. Sites will be considered for the 1997 Workshop. The Proceedings from the 1994 Workshop, held in Samia, ON, will be published by the summer, 1995. The timely publication of the Workshop Proceedings in a DFO Report Series guarantees the dissemination of very recent findings in aquatic toxicology research to a wide audience.
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Title: Identification of Sublethal Effects and Bioactive ID #: 2921-2125 Region: Components of Lampricide Formulations
Scientist/Manager: Servos, M. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1533 (Toxic Chemicals Research) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 5 days on Launch (@ .2K/day)
Clients: GLFC, DFO ( Sea Lamprey Control & Fish Habitat Mgt), US Fish & Wildlife Service
Financial Information 1 Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 31.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 31.3 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 1.0 GLFC 0.0 0.0 0.0 47.0 0.0 0.0 47.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 79.3 Totals: 0.7 31.3 0.0 47.0 0.0 0.0 78.3 L Description Lampricides have recently been determined to cause reproductive disfunction and enzyme induction in fish. The chemicals responsible for the induction of MFO activity have been isolated as contaminants in the TFM formulations. Given the mass of TFM formulation discharged into the Great Lakes, the potential of the contaminants to cause reproductive and metabolic disturbances in fish, and for these contaminant to be persistent, it is critical that the components of the formulation which are responsible for biological effects be identified and their environmental fate investigated.
Expected Results I The preparative scale HPLC will be employed to separate the bioactive components of TFM formulations into distinct reproducible fractions which will be assayed for their ability to induce EROD activity in rainbow trout. Each bioactive fraction will then be scanned using Gas Chromatography High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) to identify or characterize the components. Protocols currently developed for the separation and isolation of EROD induction will be used with circulating sex steroids and an estrogen as well as Ah receptor binding assays. The fractions causing biological activity will be compared to determine if the responses are resulting from the same chemicals/fractions. The information will be used by agents of the GLFC on the Great Lakes to reduce the environmental impact on non target species of lampricide application.
page 234 DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Fish Habitat Studies Division
Research within Fish Habitat Studies addressed priorities under DFO's Fish Habitat Policy, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Canada Ontario Agreement, the Great Lakes Fishery Convention Act, and the national LRTAP program. The program is focussed on four issues: rehabilitating fish communities in Areas of Concern (RAP sites); monitoring the effects of Acid Rain (LRTAP) on sensitive ecosystems; developing quantitative measures of productive capacity in the nearshore; measuring the impacts of exotic species such as zebra mussels on the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie ecosystem, and quantifying the health of lower trophic levels in the open waters of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
Long Range Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants The LRTAP program is directed out of the Sault Ste. Marie office. There are two program elements. Approximately 40 percent of the LRTAP budget is directed into research describing the effects of acid precipitation on lake ecosystems. The remaining 60 percent of the LRTAP budget is used to monitor changes in water chemistry and biota in the Algoma and the Parry Sound Lakes as part of DFO's National Biomonitoring Program. The biomonitoring program will enable us to evaluate the impacts of reduced emissions on water chemistry and biota for a number of lakes receiving moderate and heavy loadings of acid precipitation. Such multi-year data bases are necessary to estimate the natural variability inherent in biotic communities and the effect that emission reductions have on these communities.
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The Great Lakes research program addresses four priorities: the development of Remedial Action Plans in Areas of Concern; the productive capacity of littoral habitats; the impact of exotic species such as zebra mussels on native benthos and energy transfer, and open lake biomonitoring to assess the health of the Great Lakes and the impact of exotic species.
Remedial Action Plans In Areas of Concern: DFO is one of many partners contributing to the rehabilitation of fish habitat and fish populations in Areas of Concern. Habitat creation projects are underway at 6 sites in Lake Superior and 8 sites in Hamilton Harbour on Lake Ontario. Both projects are meeting DFO's commitments to Remedial Action Plans by restoring degraded fish habitats and rehabilitating fish populations.
Productive Capacity of Littoral Habitats: The Productive Capacity project is a cooperative study with Fish habitat Management. It is designed to identify factors affecting fish and fish habitat associations in littoral habitats of Great Lakes 'Areas of Concern'. Littoral habitats are a highly productive and important part of the lake ecosystem. However, the nearshore area in AOCs are affected by poor water quality, wetland destruction, infilling and shoreline hardening. The long term goal of this project is to quantify the productive capacity of littoral habitats. Comprehensive models, using GIS technology, will be developed to link fish assemblages and community production with specific habitat features. The models will allow habitat managers to assess the current status of the littoral areas, and to make knowledgable decisions regarding the conservation and future restoration of the nearshore areas.
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Open Lake Biomonitoring and the impact of zebra mussels in Lake Erie: The primary objective of the program is to monitor long term trends in nutrient levels, physical conditions and community structure (phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos) and to define interactions within the open-water ecosystem. The program has two components: weekly biomonitoring at two stations on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and large spatial surveys on both lakes at least twice each year.
Since it's inception in 1980, the biomonitoring program has accumulated an extensive data base on the relationship between nutrient concentrations and biological production of lower trophic levels in Lake Ontario. Recently, Ontario, New York and DFO combined their production and fisheries data and confirmed that there is insufficient production at the lower trophic levels in Lake Ontario to support the current level of salmonid stocking. Decisions were made by the fisheries agencies to reduce stocking to allow smelt and alewife populations to recover.
While Lake Ontario is responding to 'top down' pressures, Lake Erie appears to be affected by 'bottom up' changes in energy flow. Lake Erie is undergoing rapid and unpredictable changes as a result of zebra mussel invasion. The overwhelming colonization by zebra mussels has undoubtedly altered the pathways for nutrient and energy flow. The effects are particularly evident in the western basin because of abundant suitable substrate and the shallow depth. Zebra mussel veliger numbers increased from 4 to 30-L -1 from 1988-1989 and adult numbers peaked in 1990 at over 200,000•m -2. At these densities the entire volume of the western basin can be filtered 26 times per day. This massive turnover of the water mass and the planktonic has the potential to seriously disrupt energy flow from the plankton to small fish.
The Lake Erie Biomonitoring Program focuses on the pathways of energy flow in Lake Erie as they are affected by the physical morphometry of the lake, the size spectra of the biological communities and the seasonal cycle of physical, chemical and biological variables. The integrated concepts and data are used to evaluate the state or health of Lake Erie, to provide information on resources bases and bottom-up factors for fisheries managers, and to better understand the interactions within the ecosystem. Cooperative studies are continuing with OMNR and U.S. agencies to determine fish community composition and production in Lake Erie, and the impact of zebra mussels on benthic production in western Lake Erie. DFO provides lower trophic level production data for benthos, zooplankton and phytoplankton. Together, OMNR and DFO will assemble the data to predict the effects of changing energetics on the Lake Erie fishery.
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Title: Fish Habitat Studies Division - Program Delivery ID #: 2990-0000 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Cairns, V. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1410 (Program Management & Support - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Remedial Action Plans, DFO (FHM), OMNR, OME, DFO, Public Advisory Committees OMNR, OMEE, DOE, DFO
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.7 45.2 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 60.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 60.2 Totals: 0.7 45.2 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 60.2
Description
Lead and coordinate the Division's program planning and execution; manage the Division's fiscal resources and personnel; ensure scientific audit and quality control of the Division's outputs (primarily reports & publications); ensure appropriate transfer of information & advice from from the Division to internal (DFO) and external clients; coordinate & optimize positive publicity for the Division; manage the Division's capital budget.
Expected Results
Contribute to stage 1 and 2 reports at 10 RAP sites. Represent DFO at international meetings on Lake Wide Mgt Plans, introductions of exotic species, sea lamprey control strategies, GLFC and IJC groups and task forces.
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Project Information
Title: The Occurrence of Tumors in White ID #: 2990-0001 Region: Suckers/Brown Bullheads in the Great Lakes
Scientist/Manager: Cairns, V. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1111 (Diadromous and Freshwater Fish) nil
Clients: Remedial Action Plans at 4 sites, Canada Ontario Agreement, and the GL2000. Specific clients include RAPs (Hamilton, Quinte, Niagara and Toronto). OMNR, OMEE, DOE, DFO Financial Information I
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.3 20.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 . 20.2 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Toxic 0.0 0.0 0.0 67.2 0.0 0.0 67.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 87.4 Totals: 0.3 20.2 0.0 67.2 0.0 0.0 87.4 I Description This project will compare the frequency of liver and skin tumours in white suckers from 8 sites on the lower Great Lakes to determine if tumour frequency has changed since a previous study was conducted in 1985. The project began in 1992 and will continue through 1996/97. Two hundred adult white suckers will be collected from 3 sites on Lake Ontario each year. The fish will be aged and a number of measurements made relating to the health status of the population such as size at age, condition factor, fecundity, hormone levels and mixed function oxidase activity (if relevant) and growth. Tissue pathology will be contracted to the Ontario Veterinary College. Cooperative studies will be done with the University of Guelph to determine possible factors responsible for the occurrence of tumours, including tumour induction trials with sediments from contaminated sites.
Expected Results I This project will provide temporal and geographic changes in tumour frequency in white suckers from 8 sites on the Great Lakes. The data will enable Great Lakes biologists to determine if the frequency of liver and skin tumours has declined in white suckers, a sentinel species, from the high levels observed in 1985, after the most severely affected age groups have been replaced by a new generation of fish reflecting current chemical inputs. These data will provide important baseline for future health effects studies in the Great Lakes. The results are needed by Remedial Action Plan teams to determine impaired beneficial uses and by fisheries agencies (DFO/OMNR/OMEE) to identify any non-chemical and chemical stressors that appear to be related to tumour frequency and to identify population or individual indicators of stress in fish from affected sites. The data will be used by the Great Lakes community to support GL2000 and COA objectives.
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Project Information
Title: Biomonitoring in Turkey Lakes (TLW) and ID #: 2990-0004 Region: Parry Sound Region
Scientist/Manager: Shaw, M.A. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO national LRTAP biomonitoring program, Forestry, OMNR
Financial Information -, i
(All money figures are in $K) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.7 26.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.3 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.4 22.0 0.0 81.0 0.0 0.0 103.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 129.3 Totals: 1.1 48.3 0.0 81.0 0.0 0.0 129.3 L Description I These lakes constitute part of a network of 35 lakes and 17 rivers across eastern Canada (summarized in Shaw et al. 1992). The fish and invertebrate communities of these systems are monitored annually to detect changes in biological communities in response to expected decreases in sulphate deposition resulting from Canadian and US emission control strategies. Water and deposition chemistry are provided by DOE and AES respectively. All data are stored in a national ORACLE database, and a reporting structure has been developed to collate and disseminate results from all biomonitoring systems. A technical report has been produced which summarizes baseline biological data and annual variability (1987-89) for all systems.
Expected Results I This project will detect biological and chemical responses of aquatic systems to Canadian and proposed U.S. sulphate emission control strategies by measuring natural variability in biodiversity and abundance of biota in Canadian Shield lakes, sensitive to atmospheric deposition and climate change, on an annual basis.The results will provide trend-through-time data which can be applied to regional environmental stresses (eg. climate change, low level contaminants) inducing population change. The data are needed by Canadian negotiators to further document the effectiveness of US control emissions on Canadian fisheries resources. The results apply to all sulphate sensitive environments in eastern Canada and risk assessment modelling will be used by the government of Canada and provincial and state agencies concerned with LRTAP emissions.
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Title: Turkey Lakes Calibrated Watersheds ID #: 2990-0006 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Kelso, J.R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent 'dedicatee vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO national LRTAP monitoring program, DOE, OMNR
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.4 17.8 0.0 50.0 7.0 0.0 74.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 74.8 Totals: 0.4 17.8 0.0 50.0 7.0 0.0 74.8 I, Description The TLW is one of five hydrologic and chemically calibrated watersheds in Canada and is operated jointly by DFO, DOE and CFS. This watershed was chosen to evaluate LRTAP effects on terrestrial and aquatic systems in a region of moderate-high sulphate deposition. Results to date have been published in a special volume of Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci (45, Supplement 1). The existing data base (15 yrs.) is ideal to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic perturbation (eg.climate change, habitat alteration, species alteration) on aquatic ecosystems. Data from this watershed provides a more intensive and quantitative support for biomonitoring and regional assessments in the headwater lakes (HWL).
Expected Results
This project will integrate the response of the aquatic chemistry and biota in the calibrated watershed to changes in LRTAP deposition. The data are needed to evaluate the importance of atmospherically derived nutrients to fish production in Canadian Shield lakes and will link biotic and chemical responses in the Turkey Lakes Watershed to regional change. The Turkey Lakes are sensitive indicators of all shield lake systems and the data generated from this system will be used by Canada and the US to predict the responses of sensitive shield lakes in North America. Primary users will be DFO, DOE, OMNR and US agencies. The data will be used primarily by DFO as applicable to eastern fisheries and the database will be integrated with those from other calibrated watersheds.
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Title: Response of Ontario Lakes to Varying ID #: 2990-0008 Region: Atmospheric Deposition
Scientist/Manager: Kelso, J.R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO, OMNR, DOE, National LRTAP Biomonitoring Committee
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 9.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 LRTAP 0.2 8.5 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 19.6 Totals: 0.3 17.6 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 19.6
Description
A group of 56 Algoma headwater lakes have been monitored since 1979 to track water chemistry responses to changes in sulphate deposition. These systems are very responsive, given their short water renewal times (mean = 1.1 y). Comparison of predicted and original pH and ANC indicate a median decline of 0.45 pH units and a loss of 34 eq L-1 ANC by 1979. Median pH of these systems increased by approximately 0.50 units from 1979 to 1985, however median pH in 1994 was the lowest since before sulphate emission controls were put in place. Of the 5 lakes which had lost their fish populations by 1979, 4 were recolonized by 1987 following an average pH rise of 0.9 units. These data indicate that biological recovery (successful fish re-colonization) are closely linked to improvements in water quality. It appears that the promising recovery identified for the early 1980s has been lost. An integration of results from research at national (eg. LRTAP Biomonitoring), regional (this project) and watershed (eg. TLVV) scales is the best way to provide policy feedback on the effectiveness of current emission control strategies for the Canadian aquatic resource. Expected Results
This project will document regional chemical and biological responses of 56 sensitive shield lakes to acidic atmospheric deposition on a trend-through time basis. The compilation of data will provide a regional context for DFO's national biomonitoring program by determining if biotic recovery and recolonization has been lost as a result of recent declines in lake pH. The data are used primarily by Canadian agencies (DFO, DOE) to monitor the effectiveness of US emission controls. This is particularly important now that recent information shows that the lakes are once again showing signs of pH stress implying that current controls are not adequate to protect sensitive ecosystems. The data will be used by Canadian and US regulators and scientists to develop new control strategies for eastern North America.
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Title: Integrated Regional Risk Assessment and ID #: 2990-0009 Region: Modelling - LRTAP Scientist/Manager: Minns, C.K. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1534 (Toxic Chemicals Monitoring) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Canada US Report (due 1997), DFO, DOE, OMNR, US
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.1 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.5 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): LRTAP 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 108.5 Totals: 0.1 8.5 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 108.5
Description
This project assembles biotic research and monitoring results obtained by DFO and others into an integrated LRTAP assessment framework; a Canada-US progress report is due in 1997. The first task is to provide a synthesis of biological results obtained in the DFO-LRTAP Biomonitoring program, documenting trends and effects. The second task is to build a biotic impact assessment model which will link to other existing models. DOE is developing an integrated model which links emissions levels through transport and deposition to an aquatic chemistry model. The biotic impact model will predict local and regional effects on species richness and distributions, biomass and production (and thereby potential yield), community composition in freshwater fish. Identification of biologically-based critical loading levels will be part of the modelling effort. The assessment will also examine the linkages between acidification and other environmental stressors such as mercury contamination and climate change. Expected Results I The principal product of this project will be a major contribution to the scientific assessment report related to aquatic biological effects. A draft report is due in the Spring of 1996 and a final report is to be completed in 1996-1997. This project is the main conduit for injecting DFO research and monitoring results into the Canada-US assessment. The assessment is mandated under a binational treaty and Canada's contribution is being coordinated through a federal-provincial committee. The results will indicate what ecosystem benefits have resulted from completed emission reductions, what further recovery might be expected as planned controls occur, and whether the control targets need to be revised in the light of new data. The results will also provide guidance and direction for future research and monitoring work on freshwater biota as relates to acidic deposition.
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Title: Lake Ontario/Erie Biomonitoring Project ID #: 2990-0011 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Johannsson, 0. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1536 (Environmental Impact of Exotic Species) (in equivalent dedicated" vessel time) 40 days on Lauzier (@ 6K/day) 19 days on Limnos (@ 7.9K/day)
Clients: OMNR, GLFC, IJC, DOE
Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 3.7 179.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 179.1 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 41.0 0.0 0.0 41.0 390.1 U of T 0.0 0.0 0.0 54.0 0.0 0.0 54.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 664.2 Totals: 3.7 179.1 0.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 274.1 Description I This project measures long-term trends in physical, chemical and lower trophic level biological communities to determine the whole lake response to phosphorus management (P), salmonid stocking, and the invasion of exotic species. Measurements of phyto-, zooplankton and benthic production are used in food supply/demand models to determine optimum levels of salmonid stocking in Lake Ontario, and the effects of zebra and quagga mussels on energy flow and subsequent effects on fish production in Lake Erie. Sampling is conducted bi-weekly from April to October from large vessels. The results are used by provincial and state fisheries agencies to manage the fishery and by the GLFC and IJC to predict the changing state of these two Great Lakes. The project is only a small part of a joint provincial, federal, state and university program to respond to the dramatic changes in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Expected Results
The short-term results focus on year by year state of the lake monitoring reports describing ecosystem response to perturbations. The long term goal is to develop predictive relationships between exotics, nutrients, energy flow and fish production for the purpose of managing the lake ecosystem.Specifically, develop predictive predictive energetic models to assist fisheries agencies develop stocking and commercial fish quotas and predict the long term impacts of P control and introductions of exotic species. Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are both changing unpredictably and resource managers need current information for decision making. The results will be used by the IJC, the GLFC, Ontario, USEPA and State agencies on both lakes to manage the fishery, nutrient inputs and exotic species.
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Title: Lake Trout Restoration ID #: 2990-0013 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Fitzsimons, J. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) 30 days on Shark (@ .9K/day)
Clients: Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, IJC and US fisheries agencies
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.6 31.2 0.0 24.5 0.0 0.0 55.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 82.7 Totals: 0.6 31.2 0.0 24.5 0.0 0.0 55.7 L Description The overall purpose of this project is to evaluate factors impeding restoration of lake trout in the Great Lakes. Lake trout have been stocked into the Great Lakes since the 1960s to 1970s to rebuild stocks of this native species, but with little evidence of significant natural reproduction except in Lake Superior. Lake Ontario, along with selected other Great Lakes, is being used as a model to assess the relative importance of a number of factors on reproductive success. The studies proposed involve a combination of field and laboratory investigations using a comparative approach, whereby conditions in Lake Ontario are related to conditions in other locations where significant natural reproduction occurs. Studies include 1. the effect of strain, stocking location and life stage of lake trout stocked on reproduction, 2. the effect of an exotic fish (alewife, smelt) diet on nutritional status, specifically that for thiamine, and effects on reproduction, 3. effects of mortality syndromes, shock sensitivity and predators on over- winter survival and emergence from spawning shoals, and 4. the effect of artificial reefs on spawning success. Expected Results I This project will identify factors preventing the restoration of lake trout stocks in the Great Lakes. Specifically, the project will determine the influence of genetic strain, habitat, early mortality syndrome, and thiamine deficiency on lake trout from Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.All lake trout stocks in the lower Great Lakes are suffering from high embryo mortality. This study is a high priority for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the IJC, COA and GL2000. The results to date have already identified methods for treating embryo's with thiamine to reduce mortality. Recommendations on strain, habitat and thiaminase will be used by federal and provincial fisheries agencies in Canada and state agencies in the US to rehabilitate lake trout stocks.
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Title: Impact of Quagga Mussels on Production of ID #: 2990-0016 Region: Benthic Community in Lower Great Lakes
Scientist/Manager: Dermott, R. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1536 (Environmental Impact of Exotic Species) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 10 days on Launch (@ .2K/day)
Clients: OMNR, IJC, GLFC
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.8 41.2 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 51.2 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): GLAP I 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 53.2 Totals: 0.8 41.2 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 51.2
I Description
The majority of the benthic biomass (80 %) in the lower Great Lakes is now in the form of the two the Dreissena species. Changes to the native benthic community is expected, but the change is having dramatic effects on the Lake Erie fishery. This project will report on the community shift in Lake Erie and compare changes to benthic community in Lake Erie with two sites on Lake Ontario. The project is part of a multi million dollar cooperative program with OMNR, DOE, US agencies and Universities to determine the effects of zebra and quagga mussels on the ecology of Lake Erie.
Expected Results
The short term objective of this project is to compare 1995 benthic community of Lake Erie with a previous study done in 1979 to characterize the impact of zebra mussels on benthic production and community composition. The long term objective is to correlate observed changes in the benthic community with changes in the Lake Erie fishery. Specifically, with dramatic declines in yellow perch and smelt stocks. The results will be used by fisheries agencies in Canada and the US to help manage the commercial and recreational fishery and to predict effects of exotic introductions on inland lakes.
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Title: Productive Capacity of Littoral Habitats ID #: 2990-0017 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Randall, R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: : DFO (Operations), (DFO FHM Policy), OMNR, Hamilton Harbour RAP, Quinte RAP, Severn Sound RAP, Toronto RAP, OME
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A - Base 2.1 121.0 0.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 145.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 63.0 0.0 0.0 63.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 208.0 Totals: 2.1 121.0 0.0 87.0 0.0 0.0 208.0 I, Description Littoral habitats are a highly productive and important part of the Great Lakes ecosystem. The objective of this project is to identify the critical habitat factors which influence fish distribution, species composition, growth and production in the nearshore zone. Detailed surveys have and will continue to be conducted to determine fish size, community structure and biomass in different habitats. Analytical models will be used to link fish production with specific habitat features. The predictive models will be useful to habitat managers for identifying critical habitats, for determining areas of high productive capacity, and for predicting the consequences of habitat alteration on productive capacity.
I Expected Results In the short term, this project provides valuable fish community information required by Remedial Action Plans to determine impaired beneficial uses in Areas of Concen. The long term goal is to develop empirical models which link littoral fish assemblages with habitat features. This information is essential component of DFO's Fish Habitat Policy which relies upon Productive capacity of fish habitat as the currency for determining no net loss. The data collected in the littoral zone of the Great Lakes will become part of a GIS habitat network which will be used to model productive capacity on a lake wide basis. The work is supported by provincial agencies and DFO operations. Primary users are DFO operations and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Remedial Action Plans in Hamilton, Quinte, Toronto, Severn Sound and in Environmentally sensitive areas in Long Point, Lake Erie. The data are held and analyzed at CCIW and will be used by DFO habitat managers nationally.
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Title: Project Quinte ID #: 2990-0018 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Millard, S. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1530 (Environmental Science - general) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 20 days on Lauzier (@ 6K/day)
Clients: OMNR, OMEE, Quinte RAP
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 1.2 64.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 64.4 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): Sust. Fi 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 120.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 199.4 Totals: 1.2 64.4 0.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 79.4 Description
Project Quinte is a long-term multi-agency project studying the response of the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario to reduced phosphorus (P) loading from sewage treatment plants. The general goal is to understand the relationships between nutrient loading, food-chain interactions and other factors in determining levels of algal biomass and the health of the fishery. Physical parameters, water quality, as well as biomass, species composition and production of both phyto- and zooplankton is measured. Project Quinte results have been instrumental in helping the province develop Remedial Action Plans (stages 1811) for the bay. Biological and chemical monitoring results are compiled annually in a Ministry of the Environment, Remedial Action Plan, Monitoring Report.
Expected Results
I The short term result is an annual monitoring report describing the state of phosphorus levels and biological communities including phyto-, zooplankton, benthos and fish. The long term goal is to provide a food-chain model describing energy flow that can help fisheries managers assess the impact of management decisions relative to the effects of phosphorus management and the invasion of zebra mussels in the Bay. The results will guide municipalities and land use planners to allocate phosphorus loads to the Bay and facilitate the implementation of the Stage II Remedial Action Plan. The Quinte study responds to the needs of at least 20 provincial, federal, municipal and private partners who are committed to delist the Bay of Quinte as an Area of Concern.
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Title: Sea Lamprey Habitat Relationships ID #: 2990-0021 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Kelso, J.R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1536 (Environmental Impact of Exotic Species) (in equivalent "dedicatee vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO, Great Lakes Fisheries Commission, OMNR, Sport fishermen, DOE, Otario Ministry of the Environment.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 26.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.7 Platform Support B - Base: Costs (est): GLFC 0.0 0.0 0.0 105.5 0.0 0.0 105.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 132.2 Totals: 0.5 26.7 0.0 105.5 0.0 0.0 132.2 I, Description The Vision Statement (1992) provided by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Lake Superior Binational Initiative, and environmental ethics all dictate the need for alternative (non-chemical) means of sea lamprey control. However, only two alternatives to the use of lampricides (release of sterile male sea lamprey and bafflers) have been implemented and are undergoing field trials. "Normal" behaviour and competitiveness of sterile male sea lampreys are necessary to the success of the program. Understanding the behaviour of migrating sea lampreys is also important to siting and construction of barriers which deny access to upstream spawning reaches and to design and placement of traps. This research program fulfils assessment requirements identified in the Strategic Plan and Implementation Schedule FX94-97 of the Sterile Male Release Task Force (a GLFC entity) and addresses aspects of sea lamprey migratory behaviour critical to enhancing operation of bafflers and traps.
Expected Results I The long term goal of this project is to develop non-chemical alternate strategies to control sea lamprey which will eventually replace the need for TFM addition to the Great Lakes. The project will evaluate the efficacy of sterile male techniques to control lamprey reproduction. Specifically we will describe the upstream rate of movement, the habitat (or refugia) selected and the migratory pathways within streams of adult sea lampreys over the course of the spring spawning migration and determine rates of emigration from spawning streams. We will compare the upstream migrating behaviour of male sea lampreys in two Lake Superior study streams with that of male sea lampreys captured in Lake Huron tributaries, sterilized, transported to and released in those streams. This project was requested by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and is of interest to the IJC and the Lake Superior Bi-national Program.
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Title: Ecology of Littoral Young of the Year Fishes, ID #: 2990-0019 Region: Southwestern Ontario
Scientist/Manager: Leslie, J.L. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1536 (Environmental Impact of Exotic Species) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: OMNR, OME, GL:FC, IJC
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.8 83.7 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 91.7 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 91.7 Totals: 1.8 83.7 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 91.7
Description
The short term objective of this project is to determine the effects of zebra mussels and quagga mussels on larval walleye production in Lake St. Clair. The long term objective is to understand the temporal and spatial distribution of young of the year fishes that utilize the littoral zone and establish links between habitat type and fish species diversity in nearshore areas. Larval fish are collected throughout the season from representative habitats in Lake Erie and St. Clair. The data are used by OMNR, DFO and by US fisheries agencies to document changes in YOY commercial species and to rationalize nearshore habitat protection. Production of YOY fishes combined with DFO projects to measure production of nearshore adult fisheries (#0017) and offshore primary and secondary production (#0011) is an important element of understanding whole lake productive capacity.
Expected Results
The project will provide quantitative and qualitative information on abundance, diversity and habitat requirements for YOY fishes in the lower Great Lakes. The project will eventually predict the productive capacity of whole lakes and provide essential early life history for important commercial species that are being impacted by zebra and quagga mussels. The results will be used by fisheries managers to predict future changes in the fish community and to identify and protect valuable YOY habitats. This is the only larval fish work done on the lower lakes.
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Title: Restoration of Fish and Fish Habitat in ID #: 2930-3011 Region: Hamilton Harbour
Scientist/Manager: Cairns, V. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1531 (impact of Habitat Disruption) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Hamilton Harbour RAP, DFO, DOE, City of Hamilton, Bay Area Restoration Committee, Bay Area Implementation Team, McMaster University, Royal Botanical Gardens, OMNR, OMEE.
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 0.5 32.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 32.1 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 GLCuF 0.0 0.0 0.0 800.0 0.0 0.0 800.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 832.1 Totals: 0.5 32.1 0.0 800.0 0.0 0.0 832.1 I, Description The purpose of this project is to implement remedial actions recommended in the Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan to rehabilitate fish populations and fish habitat in Hamilton Harbour. The long term goals for the rehabilitation project are to improve fish and wildlife populations in Cootes Paradise and Hamilton Harbour by improving fish habitat and by altering the fish community from one dominated by pollution tolerant species such as carp, white perch, and alewife to a community dominated by native fish species and controlled by top predators. The long-term science goal is to understand factors affecting the stability and composition of nearshore fish communities. Construction is continuing at four project sites to rehabilitate littoral habitat habitat is being constructed
Expected Results
Construction of the carp barrier at Desjardins Canal will be completed by July, 1995. Construction of reef and littoral habitats at the LaSalle Park and North Eastern Shoreline sites will be completed by January, 1996. In addition, DFO with partners from the Royal Botanical Gardens and McMaster University will conduct research on the effects of these habitat alterations on the fish community. Specifically, DFO will conduct fish community studies in Cootes paradise to determine the abundance, species richness, production and habitat preferences of the wetland prior to carp removal. DFO will also monitor the fish community in Hamilton Harbour and the status of submerged aquatic vegetation in response to reduced phosphorus loadings and the presence of zebra mussels.
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Project Information
Title: Great Lakes 2000 Cleanup - Lake Superior and ID #: 2932-3213 Region: St.Mary's River
Scientist/Manager: Kelso, J.R. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) 100% 1531 (Impact of Habitat Disruption) nil
Clients: OMNR, Ontario Ministry of the Environment,E&E, Northern Economic Development, Municipalities, Local Fishing Groups, Lakehead University, Community Groups.
Financial Information
(All money figures are in SK) Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL
A-Base 0.5 30.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 30.6 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 GLCuF 0.0 0.0 0.0 770.0 0.0 0.0 770.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 800.6 Totals: 0.5 30.6 0.0 770.0 0.0 0.0 800.6
Description
Under the mandate of Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Great Lakes Fisheries Convention Act, the DFO policy for the management of fish habitat and the Environmental Protection Act, DFO is committed to the protection and restoration of fishery habitat. The International Joint Commission has identified Nipigon Bay, Thunder Bay, Jackfish Bay, Peninsula Harbour, and the St. Marys River as Areas of Concern with respect to degraded water quality and habitat. The Lake Superior Binational program merges localized projects within the AOCs with underlying ecosystem objectives on a basin-wide scale. These projects, in cooperation with other government agencies and private industry, afford us an opportunity to make significant improvements in the fishery and fisheries habitat along the entire Canadian shoreline of Lake Superior as well as the St. Marys River. Experimental evaluation of the methodologies developed for restoration will be valuable in refining these methodologies for application in AOC's and other anthropogenically perturbed areas around the Great Lakes.
Expected Results
Projects will address the following impaired beneficial uses in at least one of the five above Areas of Concern: loss of fish & wildlife habitat; degradation of fish and wildlife populations; restriction on fish and wildlife consumption; degradation of benthos; restrictions on dredging activities; eutrophication or undesirable algae; degradation of aesthetics; added cost to agriculture or industry, and; degradation of phytoplankton and zooplankton populations. Delisting of the Nipigon Bay AOC may be possible by the end of the 1996/97 fiscal year. Improvements accrued through these projects will contribute significantly to the following COA objectives: ecosystem function and structure of diverse self-sustaining native biological communities will be rehabilitated; recovery plans will be developed and implemented for any threatened species; wetland habitat will be rehabilitated or protected, and; riparian habitat will be rehabilitated or protected.
page 251 Ships Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington
E. Lewis (Hydrography), Manager DFO Central & Arctic Region Science Sector Ships
At the Canada Centre for Inland Waters DFO operates a fleet of large and small vessels to support its Hydrographic program as well as DFO and DOE research programs on the Great Lakes. Resources for both programs are provided annually from headquarters.
DFO does not "charge back" for vessel support provided to DOE. Under a long standing "agreement" DFO provides "free" vessel support to DOE in exchange for "free" space provided to DFO programs at CCIW.
In FY 95/96, day to day administration for all vessels was delegated from the Regional Director of Science to Hydrography. In previous years, Day to day administration had been delegated by the RDS to the Director of GLLFAS. The Change in FY 95/96 was made in anticipation of the transfer of freshwater responsibilities (including GLLFAS) from DFO to DOE.
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Title: SHIPS: Administration ID #: 2510-0001 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lewis, E. Arctic content (est) 0% 4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1413 (Vessel Support) (in equivalent 'dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Primary: DFO researchers (Science and Hydrography) Secondary: DOE and University researchers; Industry ; Foreign researchers Financial Information I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 9.0 377.0 0.0 57.0 0.0 0.0 434.0 Platform Support B-Base: Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 434.0 Totals: 9.0 377.0 0.0 57.0 0.0 0.0 434.0
Description
These Resources are used to administer and provide support (e.g. repair, fabrication, maintenance) to all vessels in bothe the Hydrographic and research programs on the Great Lakes.
Expected Results
Efficient and effective commitment of resources to deliver timely support to clients.
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Project Information
Title: SHIPS: Lauzier ID #: 2511-1101 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lewis, E. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1413 (Vessel Support) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Primary: DFO researchers Secondary: DOE and University researchers; Industry ; Foreign researchers Financial Information
I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in SK)
A-Base 10.6 235.8 89.0 167.8 10.0 0.0 502.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): NSER 0.0 120.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 120.0 0.0 From 0.0 66.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 66.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 689.3 Totals: 10.6 422.5 89.0 167.8 10.0 0.0 689.3 Description
I The Lauzier at 37.1 m carries a crew of 12 and can accommodate 6 scientific personnel. In recent years the Lauzier has been used primarily to support DFO commitments arising from the Can./U.S. Great Lake Water Quality Agreement and the Canada/Ontario Agreement respecting Great Lakes Water Quality.
DFO (GLLFAS) uses this vessel to support its bioindex monitoring and assessment program on Lake Ontario and for Project Quinte. The latter project involves cruises along the centre of the Bay of Quinte (designated an area of concern) collecting water and biological samples which are used to determine the ecological status of the disturbed ecosystem.
I Expected Results Project Quinte cruises are on alternate weeks from May through October. Bioindex cruises will occur most weeks from next April through October. In addition, two week summer and fall cruises in support of the Lake Ontario Trophic Transfer project are scheduled this year and will be partially supported by NSERC funds. A total of 140 sea days are expected for the 1995 field year with more available if required and funds can be found.
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Title: SHIPS: Limnos ID #: 2512-1201 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lewis, E. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1413 (Vessel Support) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: Primary: DOE researchers Secondary: DFO researchers Occasional: University and some U.S. based researchers Financial Information -, I Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (AU money figures are in $K)
A-Base 12.9 475.6 160.0 345.7 10.0 0.0 991.3 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 991.3 Totals: 12.9 475.6 160.0 345.7 10.0 0.0 991.3 Description I The Limnos is this Region's largest vessel at 44.8 m and is dedicated to Great Lakes research. It has a crew of 14 and can accommodate 14 scientific personnel. Traditionally it has been used more by DOE than DFO to support DOE commitments under the Can./U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the Canada/Ontario Agreement respecting Great Lakes Water Quality. This vessel is also used on occasion by the University community with their time funded by NSERC.
Expected Results I In 1995 most of the 107 sea days expected for this vessel will be spent on Lake Erie. Additional sea days are available but funds have not been forthcoming to support additional cruises. With the projected loss of Lauzier in 1996 this vessel will need to be shared more between DFO and DOE.
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Title: SHIPS: Launches (including The Shark) ID #: 2514-1401 Region:
Scientist/Manager: Lewis, E. Arctic content (est) 0%
4th level Work Activities: Platform support needed: 100% 1413 (Vessel Support) (in equivalent "dedicated" vessel time) nil
Clients: DFO (GLLFAS) and DOE scientific staff at CCIW
Financial Information
Source PYs Sal OT OM CAP GC TOTAL (All money figures are in $K)
A-Base 1.6 68.6 14.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 122.6 B-Base: Platform Support Costs (est): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total Project Costs (est) 122.6 Totals: 1.6 68.6 14.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 122.6
Description
The Shark with a crew of two, is the workhorse launch in the Central and Arctic Region fleet supporting both the DFO (GLLFAS) and DOE nearshore Great Lakes programs. Projects in DFO supported by this vessel include Lake Trout restoration (approximately 30 days) and Hamilton Harlem restoration (15 days). DFO also maintans a number of smaller launches for use in its various projects.
Expected Results
Provision of 122 sea days on Shark, and launches for DFO and DOE programs.
page 256 Appendix A Organizational Charts DFO C
CENTRAL AND ARCTIC REGION SCIENCE INTERIM ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE e
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1995. nt ral OFFICE OF REGIONAL THESE FRESHWATER SCIENCE PROGRAMS DIRECTORACIENCE ARE PROPOSED FOR TRANSFER TO DOE & A
J. Cooley 1/4/dIrecior) Winnipeg [54 FTEel Burlington [35 FTEs] rcti 1 I 1 c ARCTIC FISH & MARINE HABITAT MANAGEMENT ARCTIC HABITAT FISH HABITAT RESEARCH DIRECTOR,GLLFAS
MAMMALS DNISION DIVISION SCIENCE DPI. DIVISION R
R. Peel [manager) J. Seen Imaged T. ShortliMnenetwl M. Pepsi [manager J Cooley [dIrectri e H gi o n CONTAMINANTS EXPERIMENTAL FISH HABITAT STUDIES ARCTIC FISH ASSESSMENT HABITAT MANAGEMENT S ONTARIO AREA RESEARCH ECOSYSTEMS DIVISION ci S. Melkosh L. Lockhart peadert R. Hacky [leader) V. Calms knanapecl J. Relst [leaded ence S
ARCTIC MARINE MAMMAL HABITAT MANAGEMENT ARCTIC MARINE FOOD CHAIN STUDIES ECOTOXICOLOGY ECOSYSTEMS DIVISION ASSESSMENT NWT WEST AREA ect R. Stewart Peaderl B. Feguson H. Welch [leaded E. Fee Deeded M. Whittle imanagerl o r
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HABITAT MANAGEMENT FWI LIBRARY FISH BIOLOGY SCIENCE NUNAVUT AREA R. Moshe** Wed M. Keast M. Layton R. Bodily Bolded
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