Aquatic/Fisheries

DWB Forestry Services Ltd. (DWB) employs experienced staff with fisheries and water quality backgrounds and is capable of providing a wide range of environmental services that include:

• Riparian assessments
• Forest Practices Code stream classification
• Fish salvage and construction site dewatering
• Fish passage culvert inspections
• Fish sampling methods such as electrofishing, counting fences, seine and gill netting, minnow trapping and angling
• Fish and fish habitat inventory and assessments
• Environmental management plans
• Environmental monitoring
• Compliance and effectiveness monitoring
• Regulatory agency liaison and environmental permits
• Mitigation and compensation plans
• Stream bank stabilization
• Stream rehabilitation plans
• Environmental training
• Water quality monitoring and assessments

DWB fisheries staff includes Registered Professional Biologists, Professional Agrologists, personnel with environmental degrees and highly qualified Environmental Technicians who have extensive experience in fisheries and water quality projects.  Past clients include those from the forestry sector, the private sector, the oil and gas sector, and provincial/federal ministries.  Inter-disciplinary cooperation within DWB between biologists, foresters, and engineers makes environmental projects highly efficient and effective.