Speaking for the Salmon: A Community Workshop to Review Preliminary
Results of 2003 Studies on Sea Lice and Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago
Area of British Columbia
AGENDA
Monday, January 5th, 2004
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Refreshments
2:30 – 2:45 pm
Opening address, welcome and prayer
Chief Bill Cranmer, ‘Namgis First Nation
Michael Berry, Project Coordinator, Inner Coast Natural Resource Centre
and workshop moderator
Patricia Gallaugher, Director, Centre for Coastal Studies
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Status of the Pink Salmon Action Plan followed by discussion
John Pringle, Manager, MEHSD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney
3:00 – 4:00pm
Preliminary observations on juvenile salmonids and their lice infections
followed by discussion
Brent Hargreaves, Research Scientist, Salmon Section, Fisheries and Oceans
Canada, Nanaimo
4:00- 4:30pm
Caligid copepods on juvenile salmon and some non-salmonids in the Broughton
Archipelago followed by discussion
Simon Jones, Fish Health Research Scientist, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Nanaimo
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Juvenile salmon out migration and adult returns followed by discussion
Gordon McEachen (or Pieter Van Will), Acting Chief Conservation Management,
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Campbell River
5:00 – 6:00pm
Provincial Government and Industry update
Joanne Constantine, Fish Health Veterinarian, BC Ministry of Agriculture
Food and Fisheries
6:00 – 7:00 pm
Dinner ($20 per person)
7:00 – 8:00 pm
Ongoing Research followed by discussion
Alexandra Morton, R.P. Biologist, Raincoast Research
Tuesday, January 6th, 2004
8:00 – 8:30 am
Refreshments
8:30 – 9:00am
Observations on sea lice planktonic stages followed by discussion
Moira Galbraith , Zooplankton Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
Sidney
9:00- 9:45am
The marine distribution of juvenile salmonids and comments on sea lice
infection followed by discussion
Richard Beamish, Senior Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo
Speaking for the Salmon: A Community Workshop to Review Preliminary
Results of 2003 Studies on Sea Lice and Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago
Area of British Columbia
9:45- 10:00am
Refreshments
10:00- 10:30am
Development of a light trap and DNA methodology to monitor sea lice
distributions in nature
Inigo Novales-Flamarique, Professor, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
10:30-11:00pm
Open Discussion
11:00- 11:30pm
Temporal variation of salmon lice infection among juvenile and adult
Pacific salmon along the west coast of North America
Marc Trudel, Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo
11:30- 12:00pm
Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Workshop synopsis and future research tasks
Brian Riddell, Science Advisor, Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council,
Vancouver
1:00 – 1:10 pm
Closing prayer
1:30 pm
Water taxis to Port McNeill to catch 4:30 Pacific Coastal flight in Port
Hardy or 7:00 pm ferry in Nanaimo