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
In 2008, GFA modified a fishwheel for use in the Cranberry River canyon. Goal: capture coho and chinook salmon to obtain a recapture rate from fish marked at downstream Nisga'a fishwheels.
Looking downstream prior to installing panels and trapboxes. This is what exists at the site year-round.
Prior to installation of the smolt fence, the concrete sill is all that remains in the river over winter.