Our Mandate

The GFA is mandated to conserve, protect, restore, monitor and manage fish, wildlife and the habitat they require, within the Gitanyow Lax Yip (Traditional Territory).

PHOTO GALLERIES

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Kitwanga River Salmon Enumeration Facility

GFA crews using overhead winches to move aluminum panels into place during fence construction.

Snapshots of GFA Projects

GFA crewmember dipnetting sockeye, which will be sampled for DNA, sex and length before being released to spawn.

Kitwanga Smolt Enumeration Facility

GFA technical crews are the backbone of the program, working long, split shifts each day to maintain the fence and process each fish that passes through, sometimes over 200,000 fish per season.