Welcome to InStream Fisheries Research
InStream Fisheries Research Inc. is a diverse team of environmental professionals. Our focus is understanding and improving the management of fish populations as they respond to environmental changes.
Electronic Fish CountersWe are industry leaders in riverine fish enumeration and are the sole North American distributor of Aquantic resistivity counters.
TelemetryWe use cutting-edge technologies to understand how and why fish move through their environment.
Population AssessmentOur team has several decades experience developing innovative and effective population assessment programs.
Modelling and AnalysisOur skilled analysis team uses creative statistical and modelling techniques to develop progressive answers to complex environmental questions.
Our goal is to improve the understanding and management of fish populations throughout British Columbia. Our experienced team develops cutting-edge research programs to answer complex environmental questions, and we work with industry, government, First Nations, and academic groups to ensure our work is collaborative and comprehensive.
Our goal is to identify critical habitats for juvenile White Sturgeon in the Pitt River watershed to support management and recovery. We use robust acoustic and passive integrated transponder (PIT) telemetry methods to tag and monitor, free-living juvenile sturgeon (< 100 cm), to address uncertainties regarding the migration behaviour and habitat use of this key life stage.
The goal of this project is to operate a resistivity counter in the Upper Shuswap River to enumerate Bull Trout.
We use a broad range of techniques to understand the impacts of the Bridge River Hydroelectric Complex on salmonids in the Bridge-Seton watershed.
IFR monitors adult Bull Trout in the Halfway River watershed to understand the effects of hydroelectric development in the Peace River.
We have monitored steelhead and salmon ecology in the Keogh (Giyuxw) River for over two decades.
We collaborate with the Squamish River Watershed Society to understand how juvenile Chinook Salmon access and rear in the Squamish River estuary.
IFR is examining the effects of Daisy Lake Dam operations on the productivity of salmon and steelhead in the Cheakamus River.
IFR operates a network of resistivity counters in the Fraser River watershed in the interior of British Columbia.
