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Nepisiguit Salmon Association- Association du Salmon Nepisiguit
898 Centennial Street
Telephone: 506_548-9361

Job

environmental laborer

Number of positions

1

Job location

Bathurst

Anticipated start date

Language requirement

Bilingual

Job category

Environment

Workplace Essential Skills

  • Reading
  • Document use
  • Writing
  • Numeracy
  • Oral communication
  • Working with others
  • Thinking skills
  • Computer use
  • Continuous learning

Under supervision of our project manager and field supervisor preform electrofishing surveys to determine fish densities on the Nepisiguit river and its tributaries. along with other rivers in our region to determine fish densities. Water quality measurements with include temperatue,O2 , turbidity , flow rates , acidity and other parameters will be taken on the Nepisiguit, Bass,Tetagouche, Elmtree rivers to determine river health. The crew will also preform culvert and Beaver dam assessment ,cleanup and GIS mapping of possible obstructions to to spawning fish passage. With help from Government and NGO agencies CABIN and Benthic surveys with be preformed on all rivers in the region to determine overall river health. We will start a land usage maps inputted on a GIS system along all river in our area to determined whether, industrial, agricultural ,municipal looking for possible river hazards to be shared with other Government and NGO's to better understand overall river health.