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- Strait of Georgia juvenile herring survey, 2004
- abstract: In 2004, a Strait of Georgia juvenile herring survey was conducted from September 23 to October 3. Forty-five purse seine sets were made at 10 locations within Trincomali Channel in the south to Smelt Bay in the north. The survey monitors the distribution and relative abundance of young of the year herring in the Strait of Georgia as a predictor of recruitment to the spawning stock and fishery at age-3 in the future. Twenty-seven species of fish were identified in the purse seine catches with herring being the most frequently encountered species. A total of 5292 herring were measured resulting in a length frequency distribution that was distinctly bimodal representing age-0+ and age-1+ fish. Age-0+, age-1+ and age-2+ or older herring occured in 82.2%, 28.9% and 11.1% of the sets, repectively. Twenty-nine oblique plankton tows were performed during the survey. Barnacle larvae, Corycaeus anglicus, unidentifiable calanoid copepods and larvaceans (Oikopleura s., Fritillaria sp.) were the most prominent zooplankters.
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- Strait of Georgia juvenile herring survey, September 2005 and October 2006
- abstract: Fall juvenile herring surveys of the Strait of Georgia took place in 2005 and 2006. Forty-six to forty-eight stations were sampled throughout the Strait of Georgia following the ten core transects that have been sampled since 1990. The survey area extends from Trincomali Channel in the south to Smelt Bay in the north. Both surveys were run from mid-September into early October. Plankton tows were performed to determine food organism abundance in the study area. CTD casts were made only during the 2006 survey to determine temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen.
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- Structural analysis of Montréal's real estate market
- abstract: The housing market in Quebec has been exceptionally dynamic since the start of the new millennium. Using a comparative approach, this report analyzes the changes in market conditions over recent years in Montreal and two other large urban centres, in order to determine whether the recent changes in Montreal's real estate market are structural or cyclical, temporary or permanent, and to identify their impacts on the housing market in years to come.