Christian Island Habitat Assessment 2009

 

  

Beausoleil First Nation, wishing to protect sensitive areas, updated shoreline and littoral fish habitat information including spawning shoals, with the assistance of the A/OFRC this summer. The community maintains an interest in managing a sustainable sport fishery in order to continue to attract anglers to their community.  

 

Shoreline cruises were conducted around Christian Island on Lake Huron between July 27^th and the 31^st. The information that was collected included: type of shoreline and littoral substrate, type of vegetation, critical fish habitat, existing in water man-made structures, and shoreline development.  This information is entered into ArcMap by A/OFRC biologists and used to create different value maps such as the one shown below.  This type of project produces hard copies of maps along with digital ArcMap files so communities can expand on this information in the future.