Forage Fish Monitoring
Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 5:00PM Are you interested in citizen science? Do you have a favourite sand and gravel beach on Thetis?
It's most likely a spawning site for forage fish, small schooling fish that are a critical component of the marine food web, eaten by salmon, marine mammals and marine birds.
Come out to Sunrise Beach on Saturday, March 16 from 9 am to 12 pm and learn how you can join a monitoring program for forage fish spawn, specifically Pacific sand lance and surf smelt.
The session will be led by Haley Tomlin, project coordinator for the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute at VIU.
For more information or to let us know you'd like to attend this fun, hands-on and informative session, contact:
Ann Eriksson, Thetis Island Nature Conservancy at author@anneriksson.ca
or Haley Tomlin, MABRRI Project Coordinator: Haley.Tomlin@viu.ca
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