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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 5d

CRI Students, tomorrow is the last day to apply for the 2025 H.B.N. Hynes Scholarship! Visit our website for details on how to apply.

canadianriversinstitute.com/student-scholarships

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Turkey Day 🦃 from your friends at CRI! 🍂
#CRI #Thanksgiving

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Scholarship Reminder! 📢

CRI PhD candidates, don't forget to apply for this year's H.B.N. Hynes Scholarship! Applications are due by October 17th.

Details about the 2025 H.B.N. Hynes Scholarship. Visit canadianriversinstitute.com/student-scholarships for more information.

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to UNB student Heather Perry, who was awarded the 2025 Bud and Peggy Bird Scholarship.

Heather is studying the different life stages of Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi river to evaluate the response to thermal stress and predation risk.

Congratulations, Heather!

Graphic congratulating Heather Perry on winning the 2025 Bud and Peggy Bird Scholarship

Photo of Heather on a rock in a river with fish tracking equipment

Picture from the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Day Ceremony, showing Dr. Tommi Linnansaari, Dr. Paul Mazerolle, Heather Perry, Bud Bird, and Dr. Jennifer Lento

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 20d

📢 New paper alert! 📢

CRI researchers just published a new paper comparing reproductive success of supplemented and wild Atlantic Salmon. The findings can help us better understand how to optimize supplementation programs to increase populations of Atlantic Salmon.

doi.org/10.1093/najf...

Picture of the title page of the newly-published paper

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 21d

On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and every other day, it is important to learn about Indigenous culture, listen, and reflect on the role we can play in reconciliation. We all have a responsibility to acknowledge the past and work towards a better future.

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 22d

🐟 Spotlight on UNB ForEM and CRI graduate student Natalie Dupont, who wrote a new blog post for UNB: "Where do they go? The missing salmon of the Bay of Fundy" 🐟

👉 Read more here:
blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · 26d

Save the Date! The 2025 Hynes Lecture and CRI Days are happening November 12-13!

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Sep 16

📢 Scholarship Alert! 📢

The CRI is now accepting applications for the 2025 H.B.N. Hynes Scholarship. Applicants must indicate how their research supports the objectives of the CRI and the work of Noel Hynes.

Applications are due by October 17th. Visit our website for more information.

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢 Reminder 📢

Only two weeks left to submit your application for the Bud and Peggy Bird Scholarship. This scholarship is available to UNB graduate students whose research is related to Atlantic Salmon. Head to our website for details!

Image of a megaphone with text that reads: "Reminder Two Weeks Left to Apply" and "Bud and Peggy Bird Scholarship $5000" and "Visit: canadianriversinstitute.com/student-scholarships

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 Scholarship Alert! 📣
The CRI is now accepting applications for the 2025 Bud and Peggy Bird Scholarship. This scholarship is open to graduate students at UNB who are directly engaged in research in support of wild Atlantic salmon conservation.
🔔 Applications are due by September 5th.

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jul 21

CRI Director Jen Lento took part in a workshop last week in Switzerland that included the IUCN GLOSAM task force and World Water Quality Alliance's Biodiversity and Biological Monitoring and Assessment Workstream. Tthey worked to develop globally-harmonized bioassessment protocols for invertebrates.

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jul 17

📢 PhD Opportunity! 📢
The Lennox lab at Dalhousie University is seeking a PhD student to work on tracking endangered Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic Salmon. Check out the ad for more details!

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jul 10

📣New research alert!📣
New research published by the CRI's Ryan Hill, Allen Curry, Tommi Linnansaari, and Philip Harrison looks at the effectiveness of upstream passage for Atlantic Salmon at the Mactaquac Generating Station in New Brunswick.
Read the full story here:
doi.org/10.1002/rra....

Poor Upstream Passage for Endangered Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) at a Trap‐and‐Transport Fishway in the Wolastoq/Saint John River, New Brunswick

Declines of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Wolastoq/Saint John River have largely coincided with hydropower development, and there is an urgent need to understand the status of bidirectional pa...

doi.org

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jul 2

🐟 CRI Student Spotlight!

Meet Kerstyn Dobbs, a PhD candidate at UNB. Kerstyn is identifying fish species that mussels in the lower Wolastoq watershed rely on to complete their lifecycle, using innovative techniques to uncover these host relationships. This work is critical to mussel conservation.

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jul 1

The CRI wishes everyone a very happy Canada Day!

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨 Help Track an Invasive Plant in New Brunswick Waters! 🚨

Curly-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton crispus) is an invasive aquatic plant with distinctive lasagna noodle-like leaves. We’re studying its distribution in NB.

🔍 Please help!
📸 If you see this plant or have it in your pond, please let us know

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you're in Fredericton, there is an exhibition on right now at the Charlotte Street Art Centre called, "The River's Story: Reflections of Life Along the Nashwaak River" featuring paintings by Terry Price. We love seeing personal experiences with the river represented in such a beautiful way!

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jun 12

There's another ongoing blitz that could use your help! Registration is open for Living Lakes Canada's 2025 National Lake Blitz. Last year, there were 278 volunteers and 24,839 observations. Let's grow that number this year!

More information and registration at livinglakescanada.ca/2025/03/01/t...

Turn your Lake Visit into Lake Stewardship: Join the 2025 National Lake Blitz - Living Lakes Canada

Living Lakes Canada makes lake stewardship easier than ever with the 5th annual National Lake Blitz! All are welcome to participate.

livinglakescanada.ca

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jun 11

Blitz the Gap is on now! This is a Canada-wide bioblitz through iNaturalist organized by the Quantitative Biodiversity Lab at McGill University. There are special challenges, including a freshwater challenge. Find out more at blitzthegap.org

Blitz the Gap 2025

blitzthegap.org

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · Jun 1

The CRI joins with organizations across the country to raise the flag for Wild Salmon Day. This day highlights the importance of wild salmon and the need for conservation.
Visit wildsalmonday.com to learn more. #wildsalmonday

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · May 22

🎉May 22nd is the International Day for Biological Diversity! 🎉

It was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 and is intended to draw attention to the importance of biodiversity and the need to conserve it.

Visit www.cbd.int/biodiversity... to learn more. #BiodiversityDay

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Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · May 14

Registration for CRI Backpack Electrofishing training is open NOW! 🐟

Full courses available May 29, June 19, July 24, and August 14. Refresher courses (for previously certified) are available June 5 and July 10. 💦

Register now to secure your spot! www.canadianriversinstitute.com/electrofishing

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · May 9

Fieldwork season is here! 🐟💦
Alex Haynes MacDonald and Drew Saxon enjoyed a sunny first field day as summer students with the Linnansaari Lab. They worked on the beautiful Miramichi River, performing maintenance on the acoustic telemetry station receivers, used to track fish movements.

Canadian Rivers Institute @canadianriversinst.bsky.social · May 8

The decline in Atlantic salmon populations in the Miramichi River is a cause for concern.

The North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council (NSMTC) has now developed a 5-year strategic plan in response to DFO's national salmon strategy.

Read the press release at nsmtc.ca/indigenous-l...

Indigenous-Led Plan Calls for Federal Funding and Support Amid Miramichi Salmon Crisis – North Shore Mi'kmaq Tribal Council

nsmtc.ca