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Research and projects
The FJMC allocates federal funding for fisheries research and monitoring in the ISR. Priorities come from the communities.
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How priorities are set
Each June the committee visits three ISR communities to hear from their HTCs. In September or October it meets the HTC Presidents. What it hears becomes the annual research priority list, which is shared with DFO and other researchers so they can propose work that answers it.
Short proposals are reviewed at the January meeting in Winnipeg, and the final funding decisions are made in April. The meeting cycle
Funded projects, 2021-22
The most recent slate published on fjmc.ca. Projects run across char, Dolly Varden, beluga, seals, whitefish, seabirds and coastal ecosystems, many led with HTCs and community monitors.
| Project | Title | Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-22-01 | Imaryuk Monitoring Program | K. Ruben |
| 2021-22-02 | Arctic Salmon: Coordination and logistics 2021 | Dunmall |
| 2021-22-03 | Arctic Coast - ANMPA Summer Community Based Survey 2021/2022 | Dunmall, McNicholl |
| 2021-22-04 | Arctic Coast - ANMPA Winter Baseline Research 2021/2022 | Dunmall, McNicholl |
| 2021-22-05 | Assessment of Arctic char from Darnley Bay | Gallagher |
| 2021-22-06 | Population assessment of North Slope Dolly Varden | Gallagher |
| 2021-22-07 | Assessment of Arctic Charr from Fish Lake | Gallagher |
| 2021-22-08 | Ulukhaktok coastal Arctic char harvest monitoring | Lea |
| 2021-22-09 | Reproduction and body condition of ringed seals taken in the regular subsistence harvest at Ulukhaktok, NT | Lea |
| 2021-22-10 | Paulatuk and Ulukhaktok Char Working Group meetings | Lea |
| 2021-22-11 | Paulatuk and Ulukhaktok Fish and Marine Mammal Harvest Studies | Lea |
| 2021-22-12 | Ulukhaktok Fish Telemetry Program | Loseto, Hussey, Pettitt-Wade |
| 2021-22-13 | Acoustic Monitoring in the ANMPA and ISR | Insley |
| 2021-22-14 | Seal diet and condition in the ANMPA and ISR | Insley |
| 2021-22-15 | ACES (Arctic Coastal Ecosystem Study)/ Shingle Point CBMP | Loseto et al. |
| 2021-22-16 | Beluga health research and monitoring in the TNMPA and ISR | Loseto, MacPhee |
| 2021-22-18 | Learning more together: Co-production of knowledge on beluga movement ecology | Loseto, MacPhee, Ovitz |
| 2021-22-19 | Beluga habitat use, coastal observatories and environmental conditions in the TNMPA | Loseto, Whalen |
| 2021-22-20 | Paulatuk Invertebrate project | Ruben, Wolki |
| 2021-22-21 | Paulatuk beluga: health and knowledge | Ruben, Green |
| 2021-22-22 | Paulatuk Whitefish Program | Ruben, Wolki |
| 2021-22-23 | Community-led characterization of char habitat in Hornaday River | Ruben, Illasiak, Dunmall |
| 2021-22-24 | Aklavik HTC Shingle Point Beluga Monitor | Gruben |
| 2021-22-25 | Aquatic Monitoring and Observation Project (formerly Inuvialuit Forage Fish Monitoring and Observation Project / IFFMO) | Drost, Johnston, Steiner, Niemi |
| 2021-22-27 | Core use areas of Cape Parry Thick-billed Murres | Insley |
| 2021-22-28 | Susceptibility of cultured beluga airway cells to SARS-CoV-2 infection | Nielsen |
Earlier slate: 2018-19 funded research projects on fjmc.ca. Lists for later years are not yet online.
Imaryuk Monitors
The all-weather highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk opened on 15 November 2017 and brought road access to remote lakes. Before it opened, the Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk HTCs wrote a Community Fishing Plan so that new access would not harm fish stocks and habitat along the highway and at Imaryuk (Husky Lakes).
Imaryuk Monitors promote and monitor the fishing restrictions in that plan, and help assess fish stocks and habitat in the area. Look for their badge and uniform, and ask them for information.
Imaryuk brochure PDF and ITH Community Fishing Plan PDF
Technical reports
The FJMC Technical Report Series runs from 1986 to today, including recent reports written by HTCs and knowledge holders. Search all technical reports
Youth opportunities
The FJMC sometimes offers a summer job to youth interested in fish and marine mammals: office work with Joint Secretariat staff in Inuvik and field experience in research and monitoring programs. Preference is given to Inuvialuit candidates. Contact our staff to ask whether a position is open.