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On Oct 20-21, Dr. Xuezhong Yu, Senior Environmental Specialist at Ecofish attended the CHINCOLD 2016 Annual Meeting & International Conference on Reservoirs and Dams in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. The Chinese National Committee on Large Dam’s (CHINCOLD) annual conference is the largest hydropower industry event in China. This year alone, the conference drew in over 600 […]
Read MoreEcofish is excited to share a new publication titled Recovery Potential Assessment for White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Upper Fraser Designatable Unit. According to the Ministry of Environment, the white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish species in North America! Sadly, it is currently on BC’s red list ranked under the province’s second highest ‘at-risk’ […]
Read MoreAfter 15 years of business, Ecofish has reached a milestone. We are an international company with 7 offices across Canada recognized for excellence in environmental assessment, monitoring, design, mitigation and offsetting. With a growing team of over 75 professional biologists, engineers, hydrologists, chemists and environmental technicians, our list of services and capacity continues to expand. […]
Read MoreAbell JM, Hamilton DP, McBride CG (2016) Comment on “Using groundwater age and hydrochemistry to understand sources and dynamics of nutrient contamination through the catchment into Lake Rotorua, New Zealand” by Morgenstern et al. (2015). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Sci. 20: 2395–2401. Abell JM, Hamilton DP (2015) Biogeochemical processes and phytoplankton nutrient limitation in the […]
Read MoreEcofish Ranked as One of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Canadian Business and PROFIT! See details here September 2016
Read MoreLast week, four of Ecofish’s leading scientists attended the world’s largest Hydro event, HydroVision 2016 in Minneapolis, MN. An action packed affair, Ecofish hosted a booth, attended networking receptions and participated in an array of fantastic presentations. Attendees included President and Senior Fisheries Biologist Adam Lewis, and Fisheries Biologists Dr. Todd Hatfield, Dr. Andrew Harwood, […]
Read MoreStay educated, stay on top of industry trends, and expand your network – join Ecofish at one of the world’s largest hydro events, HydroVision Minneapolis July 26th-29th. Experts from Ecofish will present on a number of topics including: A Comparison of Desktop Hydrologic Methods for Determining Environmental Flows, Managing Flow Ramping Operations at Run-of-River Hydroelectric […]
Read More“Unexpectedly High Detections of Wolverine (Gulu gulu) in Southwestern British Columbia” will be published in the 2016 Winter Issue (97-3) of Northwestern Naturalist. Abstract: We conducted an inventory of Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in southwestern British Columbia in winter 2012 using a multi-method approach of non-invasive genetic tagging and camera trapping. We detected a minimum of […]
Read MoreProvincial regulators now have to consider environmental flow needs when issuing licenses or permits for surface water and groundwater under the new Water Sustainability Act. Ecofish, along with our collaborators Knight Piésold and ESSA, have been asked by MFLNRO to define the key information needs and provide guidance on how to consider this information when […]
Read MoreOn November 16th, Ecofish sponsored and presented at the Environmental Flows Technical Workshop hosted by the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) in Alliston Ontario. Ecofish Data Analyst Katie Healey and Fisheries Biologist Eric Smyth presented the assessment and monitoring results from the Kwalsa Stave Hydroelectric Project, sharing valuable knowledge with consultants, conservation authority personnel, municipal […]
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