Last week involved a fair bit of office work due to the weather, however the Cheticamp River Salmon Association’s work crew was also able to get some important fieldwork done, including checking all the water temperature loggers and continuing with habitat assessments on Aucoin Brook.
Aaron walking along the side of the Cheticamp River to check the CRSA’s temperature loggers.
The CRSA also met with the Margaree Salmon Association’s summer student Leah Burns and the MSA’s new coordinator Aaron Allen. The two organizations shared some of their plans for the rest of the field season and discussed some potential opportunities for collaboration.
Later in the week, the CRSA had a site visit with consultant Charles MacInnis. Charles is working with the CRSA on their instream projects involving the Cheticamp River. One of the projects that the CRSA has hired Charles to assist with involves installing instream structures to improve fish passage where the channel splits downstream of the Cabot Trail bridge. Charles visited the site last week to see how the river is changing through this section and to determine whether the current proposed layout of structures may need to be tweaked slightly.
Rene and Charles looking at the changes to the river downstream of the Cabot Trail bridge
Charles is also working with the CRSA to make recommendations for potential instream work to help enhance and/or create coldwater habitat in locations on the lower river where the CRSA has identified coldwater sources.
Charles pointing out a site for potential coldwater habitat enhancement work on the Cheticamp River.
To finish off the week, Spencer and Jillian did a major clean up at the Gypsum Mine.
Gypsum Mine lookoff view.