Launch of Smolt Wheel on the Matapedia River

The Gespe’gewa’gi Institute of Natural Understanding (GINU) field season has officially kicked off with the launch of a smolt wheel on the Matapedia River. The smolt wheel is a rotary screw trap floating in the river, and it collects juvenile Atlantic salmon out migrating to the ocean.

The captured smolts are measured, tagged and then released. The smolt wheel was placed in the river on May 15th and will be removed around June 10th.