Fisheries Stock Assessment Biologist
Registered Professional Biologist (RPBIO - 1995)

Joined LGL in 1992

Degrees & Diplomas

Research Interests

• Salmon and non-salmon population assessments (including forecasting and abundance based-management techniques)
• Mark-recapture experiments (radio and acoustic tagging, Floy tagging, etc.)
• First Nation Treaty negotiations and implementation of fisheries agreements
• First Nation fisheries co-management, capacity building and training

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Since 1998, Richard has acted as a senior fisheries stock assessment manager for the Nisga'a Fisheries Program on the Nass River and is a member of the Nass Joint Fisheries Technical Committee. Richard is currently responsible for determining timing of Nisga'a fisheries, pre-season, in-season and post-season abundance estimates of Nass salmon species in relation to the implementation of the Nisga'a Treaty and accounting of Nisga'a salmon allocations for the Nisga'a Lisims Government. Specific Nass projects that are managed by Richard include the fishwheel stock assessment program, chinook escapement studies, steelhead tagging/bio-sampling and non-salmon assessment (e.g., Dungeness crab) programs. His work has included the management of projects from the study design stage through the field work, supervision of daily operations, monitoring and in-season/post-season assessment of data, training of technicians (30+) in fisheries techniques, monitoring budgets, analysis and reporting.