Aquatic Effects Monitoring Program (AEMP) Fish Response Plan, Comments, Ekati Diamond Mine (Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, June 2016)
The Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency provides comments on Dominion Diamond Ekati Corporation's Fish Response Plan, supporting proposed studies while raising concerns about the exclusion of Leslie Lake data, the use of otoliths without historical baseline data, and recommending the inclusion of parasitism metrics alongside growth in determining medium action levels.
- Date
- 2016-06-17
- Document type
- letter
- Parties
- Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Wek'eezhii Land and Water Board, Violet Camsell-Blondin, Dominion Diamond Ekati Corporation, Tlicho Government, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation, North Slave Metis Alliance, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Government of the Northwest Territories, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Leslie Lake, Ekati
- Parameters
- fish toxicology, antimony, molybdenum, selenium, uranium, EROD, fish growth rates, otoliths, fish parasitism, aquatic effects monitoring, fish biology metrics
- Pages
- 2
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