Community Involvement Contribution Program

Our Community Involvement Contribution Program allocates funds through the "Contributions to Support rebuilding of vulnerable salmon stocks and improve fish habitat to sustain salmon populations Terms and Conditions For Salmon Enhancement Programming" fund to support Indigenous and community groups participating in:

• stewardship
• stock assessment
• salmon enhancement
• community-based habitat restoration

Our funding directly supports 2 program streams: Public Involvement and Community Economic Development.

The Public Involvement Program is intended to enable stewardship groups and volunteers, and Indigenous people to undertake small, community based projects that restore critical salmon habitat, enhance salmon to support local fisheries, education and volunteerism, educate the public on the importance of salmon conservation and promote a culture of salmon stewardship.

See a list of Public Involvement Program projects

The Community Economic Development Program (CEDP) is intended to help restore depleted salmonid stocks in British Columbia and to improve the self-reliance, independence, and social and economic stability of Indigenous communities

CEDP Projects are involved in 5 key activities:

• Fish culture: including collecting broodstock, spawning and incubation, hatchery rearing of fry, operating sea pens, and fish culture support to other facilities
• Project operations: including administration, off-site maintenance such as fish way or fish ladder maintenance and on-site maintenance such as grounds keeping
• Habitat conservation: including fry salvage programs, riparian planting and management, water quality and temperature recording, habitat surveys and mapping, and habitat restoration
• Public stewardship: including hosting field trips on site, off-site field trips and educational programs, watershed planning processes, trade shows/education fairs/community events and local government planning processes
• Assessment: including fry counting programs, fry density inventories, hydraulic sampling programs, sampling for biological traits, and adult counting fences

See a list of CEDP projects