Stewardship partnerships
A key pillar of the Salmonid Enhancement Program is partnerships. We work with many groups to help promote salmon stewardship and conservation. Our partners include Indigenous communities and stewardship societies.
Community involvement
Local connections and awareness are key to our efforts to improve fish habitat and sustain salmon populations. Our community involvement work aims to advance Indigenous and community-based groups interests in salmon stewardship activities to rebuild salmon populations and ecosystem health.
Community advisors
Our network of community advisors, located across B.C. and the Yukon, provide ongoing technical support and guidance to assist community groups and Indigenous people in achieving their goals of supporting salmon and ecosystem health. Communities advisors, collaborate with community groups and networks to bring technical support and project specific expertise to community projects.
See a list of projects that our Community Advisors support
Stewardship collaborations
We collaborate with the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation and other organisations to train and to increase the capacity of community volunteers to apply their experience and knowledge so volunteers may act and advocate to improve aquatic health, habitat status, land use and stock assessment activities within their communities.
We also collaborate with community volunteers regularly through the Salmonid Enhancement Habitat Advisory Board (SEHAB), an organization representing communities across British Columbia and the Yukon.
Stream to Sea Program
Our Stream to Sea Education Program includes a range of educational material available to educate school children on the value of salmon resources. Our education program directly engages almost 20,000 students per year throughout school districts in B.C. and the Yukon. This program aims to help students become aquatic stewards and active citizens that are interested in protecting their local watersheds.
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
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