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:
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)