Risk of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project to Eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus)

• Main Author: Power, Helen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Oil pipeline; Eulachon; Toxicology; First Nations; Douglas Channel; Haisla; Kitimat; Kitimat Arm; Kitimat River; Pacific; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7978

Eulachon, (Thaleichthys pacificus), is an anadromous species that spawns in the Kitimat River, British Columbia. The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline travels alongside this waterway and will put this species at risk. Eulachon are a unique species, and are important to freshwater and ripar...