Our Mandate
The GFA is mandated to conserve, protect, restore, monitor and manage fish, wildlife and the habitat they require, within the Gitanyow Lax Yip (Traditional Territory).
PHOTO GALLERIES
This chum salmon was captured to take scale and length samples. Very few chum salmon stocks are being monitored in the Skeena watershed - alarming considering the low #'s observed in the Kitwanga.
GFA technical crews are the backbone of the program, working long, split shifts each day to maintain the fence and process each fish that passes through, sometimes over 200,000 fish per season.
The fishwheel in the final position. Low flows that year were thought to reduce the effectiveness of the fishwheel - which tend to work better in higher, more turbid water conditions.