Collaborative Atlantic Salmon Research Projects

Partnerships and collaborations with universities, environmental organizations, Indigenous groups and other stakeholders ensure that we have access to the best available science to make decisions about Canada’s oceans, lakes and rivers.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has provided approximately $600,000 to Atlantic salmon scientific and conservation experts to enhance our collective understanding of Atlantic salmon and to ultimately support their long-term recovery on Canada’s East coast.

Funded collaborative atlantic salmon research

Research Organization	Funding Amount	Expected Results
Atlantic Salmon Federation	$250,000	Improved knowledge on Atlantic salmon migration routes, behaviours and areas of high mortality.
Canadian Rivers Institute (University of New Brunswick)	$100,000	Improved knowledge on the population and range of Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi River.
Nunatsiavut Government	$119,000	Improved knowledge of Atlantic salmon migration patterns and habitat preferences in Lake Melville, NL.
Université de Moncton	$40,000	Improved knowledge on the potential impact of hydropower headwater reservoirs on Atlantic salmon and other freshwater fishes.
University of New Brunswick	$26,500	Improved knowledge of sea lice infecting Outer Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon to help pinpoint locations of infections and to support remedy techniques.
Atlantic Salmon Federation Canada	$146,280	Map the marine distribution and migration patterns for maiden Atlantic salmon and post spawned adults tagged in coastal waters off the west coast of Greenland.
Dalhousie University	$32,000	Develop and compare several life-history models to estimate at-sea survival parameters, integrate data across all life-stages of Atlantic salmon, analyse data for Atlantic salmon populations across the range of North American wild Atlantic salmon.
Acadia University	$78,000	Plan to expand the existing smolt, post-smolt and kelt acoustic tagging project funded by Offshore Energy Research Association and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, aimed at determining near shore and coastal migration distribution and survival of Gaspereau River Atlantic Salmon, with double tagging of kelts with acoustic and archival tagging technology.
University of New Brunswick	$63,500	This project proposes to use samples collected by North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization parties through the West Greenland Atlantic Salmon Sampling Program to: Detail the long term trends in carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of marine foraging salmon. Characterize how marine primary production pathways supporting salmon populations have changed through time and how this may have impacted the growth of salmon at West Greenland. Characterize how the trophic position of salmon foraging in West Greenland has changed during the last fifty years.