Aquatics

__Aquatic Expertise
Our highly experienced and qualified aquatic / fisheries biologists, have expertise in both assessing fish habitat quality and potential impacts on fisheries resources. Impact assessments on fish populations can only be properly completed when you have a solid understanding of fish and fish habitat and the process in which various developments or activities can impact it.

RC BioSolutions Ltd. staff have had key roles within a wide variety of projects throughout Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, Yukon and NT for oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, transportation, land development, wastewater treatment, and hydro-power industries.  RC BioSolutions Ltd. is experienced in conducting both large and small scale projects and maintains a large inventory of specialized equipment for assessing:

• Fish habitat (boat, ATV’s, vehicles, underwater camera, depth sounder)
• Fish habitat use (electroshockers, gill nets, seine nets,, minnow gee traps, live wells)
• Fish movement (telemetry equipment, tagging equipment)
• Benthic invertebrates (serber samplers, Ekman dredge, kick sampler, D net)
• Zooplankton/phytoplankton (Wisconsin and plankton nets)
• Water quality (kemmerer samplers, dissolved oxygen meter, conductivity, pH, turbidity, temperature loggers, secchi disc, etc.) and
• Stream discharge (water flow meter)
  
  

In addition to aquatic technical expertise, our team is also experienced in project management, cost tracking, report writing, and regulator liaisons, all of which are also important aspects of delivering projects with the highest quality while remaining on time and on budget.

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