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Fisheries
Data Submission
Minimum Data Submission Standards
The
Minimum Data Submission falls into 4 broad categories of
information:
Referencing
Information:
- Author
- Name of report author or project manager.
- Title
or Project Name - Name of report or project.
- Material
Type - Indicate the data type of the source information.
Options are: Field Notes, Technical Report, Unpublished
Progress Report, Final Project Report,
Research Paper, Thesis, Proceedings, or Published Book.
- Publisher
- May be the actual publisher of the reference or the
organization responsible for producing the information.
- Publisher
Location - Physical location and contact information
for the publisher.
- Purpose
- The reason for the data collection. Options are: Salvage,
Stream Classification, Inventory, Environmental Impact
Assessment, Restoration, and Other (if other is chosen,
please describe).
- Collection
Permit Number - The permit number on the issued permit.
- Agency
- Agency that conducted the sampling.
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Professional
Biologist Sign-off:
- Indication
of Professional Sign-off - A Yes or No answer to indicate
whether the data has been signed-off by a registered
professional biologist.
- Province
or State of Registration - If Yes indicated above, provide
the province of registration of the biologist.
- Biologist's
Name - If Yes indicated above, provide the name of the
biologist.
- Registration
Number - If yes indicated above, provide the registration
number of the biologist.
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Location
Information
(Required for each site):
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Gazetted
Name - Name of the stream, if stream is unnamed state
"Unnamed Stream" (link
to standards).
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Alias or Local Name - Any local name or alias used to
describe the stream (link
to standards).
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Site Number - This would be site number or name assigned
for your project or report.
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Sampling Date - This is the date when the sampling
took place at the site. Do not use a blanket range
of dates that spans the entire sampling for the
project or study.
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Location Coordinate - Preferably a UTM coordinate, this
should be the location where the sampling actually took
place. There should be 1 coordinate for each sample
site.
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Sampling
Information
(Required for each site):
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Sampling Method - List the sampling techiques used at
the site. If electrofishing was used, it is suggested
that you also provide temperature and conductivity measurements
of the water at each site, since the effectiveness of
electrofishing is closely related to these parameters.
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Sampling Effort - For electrofishing this would be number
of electrofishing seconds and the length and width of
the site sampled. For net techniques, this would be
the mesh size, net length, depth of set, and soak times.
For angling, this would be number of rods and angler
hours.
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ID of Species Caught, Stage or Age, and Total Number
Caught - For each application of a techique at a site,
the species caught and the total numbers caught, broken
out by stage or age should be listed.
- Stream
Classification Specific Information - If your study
was a Stream Classification Project, it is suggested
that you provide the following information:
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Channel Widths - The individual channel widths measured
at the site. Do not give the average (link
to standards).
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Channel Widths Methods - The method used to measure
channel width.
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Gradients - The individual gradients measured at the
site. Do not give the average (link
to standards).
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Gradient Methods - The method used to measure the
gradient.
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No Visible Channel Indicator - Yes or No, indicating
whether the site was a non-visible channel.
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If
you have questions about the minimum standards and formats,
please send an email to fishdatasub@gov.bc.ca.
This page was last modified on:
June 26, 2008
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