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Monitoring protocol to assess primary productivity baseline conditions in the Romaine River marine and estuarine environment

Regional Science Special Response Process – Quebec Region

February 22, 2013
Mont-Joli, Quebec

Chairperson: Charley Cyr

Context

In compliance with its undertakings and the conditions set out in the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) authorization, Hydro-Québec developed an environmental monitoring program (January 2010) to assess the impact of hydroelectric facilities on the Romaine River. In 2013, the physical and biological oceanographic monitoring program includes a physical characterization of the area around the river mouth in relation to various biological components. These include conducting an assessment of the plankton production baseline conditions in the area around the mouth of the Rivière Romaine.

The Fish Habitat Management Branch (FHMB) conducted a detailed analysis of the proponent's proposed monitoring protocol for this component and on February 15, 2013, requested the collaboration of Regional Science Branch scientists to provide advice on the monitoring protocol for the Rivière Romaine's marine and estuarine environment on Quebec's North Shore.

Objectives

Provide scientific advice on the proponent's proposed monitoring protocol and, more specifically, provide a recommendation on the sample size and the methods used to meet the monitoring requirement under condition 5.1.18 of the Programme de suivi environnemental du Complexe de la Romaine [La Romaine complex environmental monitoring program]:

Plankton production in the Mingan Channel

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