BC Community Eelgrass Stewardship Project


Year 2006
Organization SeaChange Marine Conservation Society
Project Type Habitat Assessment
PSF Grant $7,500
Total Project Value $119,390

Location: Vancouver Island, Brentwood Bay

Project Summary

A unique program is helping to restore two estuaries in the Georgia Basin: Tod Inlet and Cowichan Bay. The goal? To rehabilitate the eelgrass that helps Pacific salmon negotiate these estuaries.

Salmon fry use eelgrass meadows to help them make it back and forth between freshwater to saltwater systems; first as they migrate, and later as they return to spawn in rivers along the coast. These meadows are critical habitats, also known as “salmon highways”, and they provide refuge, food, and shelter from high temperatures for all major species of salmon.

SeaChange Marine Conservation Society is monitoring the Georgia Basin sites for a minimum of three years as part of the BC Estuaries Project in 2005. Pacific Salmon Foundation has given the society a grant that has allowed it to purchase water monitoring equipment. The project will cost approximately $185,491; the society has leveraged funds from foundations, government, and stewardship groups to conduct habitat rehabilitation and education work on these salmon-critical estuaries.

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Eelgrass

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