Lab members Jacqueline Chapman, Daniel Struthers, and Robert Lennox, along with the community of Cambridge Bay, NU, are patiently waiting the arrival Arctic charr for their return to the Grenier Lake system for overwintering. As part of … Read More
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Receivers deployed to kick off project on Peace River, BC
In partnership with BC Hydro, Cooke lab students are using acoustic telemetry to better understand the spatial ecology of bull trout and assess fish entrainment risk in reservoirs. Located in northern British Columbia, the Williston Reservoir is the seventh largest … Read More
Dr. Cooke featured in documentary on recreational fisheries near Mont Tremblant, Quebec
Dr. Cooke discusses best practices for catch and release angling as part of a short documentary produced by Mouchcheurs EnDiables, a non-profit fly fishing organization on the Diable River in QC.… Read More
Dr. Cooke interviewed about potential of biotelemetry by CBC
Study on Catch-And-Release Revival Techniques featured in the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Bulletin
Fishing for answers: Can freshwater protected areas prevent the selective removal of the ‘best dads’ in largemouth bass?
Lake Opinicon at the Queen’s University Biological Station provides unique research opportunities due to its longstanding freshwater protected areas, where angling has been banned for over 70 years. These protected areas have allowed student researchers to explore the effects of … Read More
Cooke lab students attend EIFAAC conference in Norway
Shannon Bower and Robert Lennox of Carleton U’s Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory traveled to Lillehammer, Norway for the EIFAAC International Symposium on Recreational Fisheries . The symposium was attended by over 180 recreational fisheries professionals from 22 countries … Read More
New Science publication co-authored by Dr. Cooke receives media attention
The recently published paper in the journal Science, co-authored by Dr. Cooke, has been covered by a number of media outlets. Check them out!
Dr. Steven Cooke co-authors new paper on aquatic animal tracking published in Science
A new paper, published in Science, details the explosion in aquatic animal tracking research over the past 30 years and its impact on discoveries about the movements, migrations, interactions and survival of both common and elusive aquatic species.
The review … Read More
Cooke Lab members present research at IAGLR Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research
Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Liset Cruz Font, and PhD student, Andrew Rous, each delivered talks on their research tracking fish in the Toronto Harbour as part of a session they co-chaired entitled “Acoustic Telemetry: Using Big Data to Answer … Read More