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2.5.2 Subject Categorization
METHODS
Once grouped by sub-basin (Section 2.5.1), the data sources were grouped again into one
of nine subject categories (Table 6):
TABLE 6. SUBJECT CATEGORIES.
(1) Inventory Projects
(2) Planning Reports
SUBJECT CATEGORY DESCRIPTION
(3) Enhancement Projects
(4) Enhancement Evaluations
(5) Environmental Impact Studies, Pollutants and
Contamination
(6) Basic Research
(7) Federal Flow Gauging Stations
fish and fish habitat surveys; collection type
surveys performed without specific hypotheses;
recommendations for future work are made
following baseline survey; enhancement
opportunities are generally highlighted
documents that summarize past projects or
suggestions for future work (long-term plans);
management plans; documents that summarize
information on a large number of lakes, streams
or rivers; documents that identify and summarize
large-scale enhancement opportunities (often
fish stocking)
fish stocking and studies and inventories that are
done in conjunction with enhancement projects
(e.g., water temperature data collected for
Nation and Mesilinka rivers and the Mesilinka
River fertilization experiment)
generally follow-ups to Enhancement projects,
e.g., creel surveys that assess the contribution
of stocked fish to the recreational fishery,
biological responses to stream fertilization
studies that collect baseline environmental data
(typically water, sediment and pollution
chemistry, sediment movements and fish
habitat) and biological data (typically data on fish
distributions, fish-flesh contaminants, benthic
invertebrates and periphyton) as part of
industrial impact assessments
citations were typically put into this category
when the work was published in a peer-review
journal or if it was of an academic nature
continuous flow (discharge) data collected with
gauges installed and maintained by Environment
Canada (Water Survey of Canada)
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