Habitat Restoration and Salmon Enhancement Program

The Habitat Restoration and Salmon Enhancement Program (HRSEP) was a 5-year funding program designed to increase the quantity and quality of salmon habitat and conserve salmon stocks in British Columbia and the Yukon through community restoration and enhancement partnership programs. From 1997 to 2002, HRSEP provided approximately $35 million to over 550 habitat restoration, stewardship, and stock rebuilding projects, operated and administered by a variety of community groups and agencies. Annual summary reports, an overall program evaluation, final reports and data from the majority of projects funded during the course of this funding program are available to the public through the following websites and the Pacific Region's library.

• Fisheries Project Registry (FPR - a map-enabled database which tracks minimum data about the existence, general nature, location and key contacts for fisheries-related projects): http://www.canbcdw.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FPR/

• BC Fisheries Information and Summary System (FISS - a geo-referenced database of overview fish and fish habitat, macro-reach and lake classification data; a joint project between Fisheries and Oceans Canada and BC Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management): BC FISS: http://srmapps.gov.bc.ca/apps/fidq/

• Yukon Fisheries Information and Summary System (FISS): http://habitat.rhq.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fiss/dcf01.cfm

• WAVES (the catalogue of the libraries of Fisheries and Oceans Canada): http://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/waves-vagues/eng.htm

• Pacific Region Headquarters Library:
  200 - 401 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 3S4, Open 8 am - 4 pm, Monday to Friday; please telephone in advance for an appointment.
  (604) 666-3851; paclibrary@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.