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Fish farming

Project Leader(s): 

Postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Wendell Challenger, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University

Lead faculty member: Dr. Carl Schwarz, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University

Non-academic participants: 

The effect of the British Columbia aquaculture industry on wild salmon stocks is currently unclear. In this project we will create a scientific advisory panel to guide development of an explicit experiment testing the effect of fish farms on wild smolt survival by using a large-scale marine telemetry array to measure survival of key BC salmon stocks. The PDF will extend Kintama’s existing mathematical software to design an optimal 2nd generation array to measure the effect of fish farm exposure on survival and advance aspects of the underlying mathematics.