Wild Fish Monitoring

We have over twenty years of experience tracking movements, behaviour and physiological parameters of free-swimming wild fish. Usually we monitor fish in their natural environment, but sometimes, wild fish are drawn into artificial structures or complexes where monitoring is necessary. Our fisheries biologists use passive or active capture techniques, SCUBA, unobtrusive underwater and overhead videography, and other unobtrusive remote monitoring and detection by radio, ultrasonic or PIT telemetry. We design experiments, collect animals, conduct surgical implantation or attachment of transmitters, install automated or online monitoring arrays and collect data manually using mobile receivers. Our experienced scientists have designed, conducted and published results from many telemetry projects around the globe with dozens of different species of animals, using the latest in high-tech surveillance electronics.

• Groundwater and Canadian Species at Risk

• Impacts of Micro-hydro Turbines on Trout in the Saugeen River, Ontario

• Multi-species Behavior, Intra-specific and Inter-specific Interactions Captured using the BRAVO Fish Monitoring Network

• Blue Sucker Tracking Over 3 years in Texas

• Black Redhorse Spawning & Juvenile Habitat

• Streaming Fishway Camera - Ontario, Canada

• Schneiders Creek/Grand River Northern Pike Tracking

• Springbank Dam Baseline Fish Movement

• LIVE Streaming Video of Wild Fish, Telemetry and Temperature from the BRAVO Node 1 (Grand River, Ontario, Canada)

• Spawning Greater Redhorse (video)

• Coral Trout on the Great Barrier Reef

• Kananaskis River Regulation Impacts

• Grand River Smallmouth Bass and Greater Redhorse

• Fish in Turbulent Flows - VIDEO

• Northern Pike Telemetry and Fish Passage

We monitor endangered species activity, reproduction and habitat requirements using radio and acoustic telemetry, as well as underwater videography. To maximize efficiency, our video data are filtered using motion detection algorithms and stored on hard drives near each node.  The node server streams live video data from each camera onto the internet.  Click HERE to see live monitoring of the endangered wavy rayed lampmussel, monitored by our BRAVO network.