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Fish Habitat Restoration

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Long Term Monitoring Program in Sheshatshiu

After acquiring an old fishing lodge on Park Lake, Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation (SIFN) in central Labrador are beginning a 10-year process to clean up and improve the lodge site to run a 100% Innu owned and operated tourism lodge, just south of Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve.

Water First is working with SIFN to develop a long-term fish habitat monitoring program for Park Lake, as well as fish habitat restoration to improve areas where garbage was left from the old lodge.

Our first visit to the community involved an opportunity to meet the managers of the lodge, the guides who operate it, and the youth apprentices being trained. Together, the group explored water quality and climate change monitoring, along with opportunities for knowledge exchange.

During this visit, the group also collected water and sediment samples to send for lab analysis to see the extent of the contamination that may have occurred from the old lodge waste. This monitoring will continue for 3 years. 

Restoration sites selected in Long Point First Nation

The Environmental Water team’s latest collaboration with Long Point First Nation, is continuing to evolve. In consultation with the community, two sites have been identified for a walleye habitat restoration project, and two youth have been hired to work alongside Water First staff. A local mentor position is still set to be hired soon.

Approvals have been enthusiastically received from both the community and the Ministère des Forêts, Faune et Parcs to begin the project which will weave many learning components into the process of the restoration.

This fall, partners from Long Point, Kebaowek, Kitigan Zibi First Nations will participate in Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) training. This training is part of a collaboration between Living Lakes Canada and WWF (along with Water First and Ottawa Riverkeeper) to increase the collection of water quality and benthic macroinvertebrate data for major watersheds in Canada.

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Alumni graduate Amy Waboose working in her community drinking water treatment plant.