Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP) delivers the Community Involvement Program (CIP) with the intent of providing technical support to salmon enhancement projects and habitat enhancement /restoration projects and watershed stewardship activities undertaken by local community groups and volunteers.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, requires contractors to provide bio-technical support to CIP projects and community groups as defined by the Community Advisor.
General contract activities include, but are not limited to:
- Fish Production: collecting broodstock, spawning and incubation, hatchery rearing of juvenile salmon , operating sea pens, and providing fish culture support to CIP hatcheries
- Restored/ Enhanced Habitat: conducting fry salvage programs, riparian planting and management, water quality and temperature monitoring, habitat surveys and mapping, and habitat restoration
- Salmon Stock Assessment: including juvenile salmon counting programs, juvenile salmon density inventories, hydraulic sampling programs, sampling for biological traits, and adult escapement assessment
- Education and Awareness: providing classroom sessions, hosting educational field trips, developing and delivering educational programs, participating in trade shows/education fairs/community events
- Administration: providing support to CIP participants on project development and implementation, project funding applications and report writing
Tender documents MUST be downloaded from www.buyandsell.gc.ca . Those who submit a bid agree to be bound by the instructions, clauses and conditions of the bid solicitation and accept the clauses and conditions of any resulting contract.
For further information, please contact the Contracting Authority, Trudy Scott by email at D••••••••@•••••••.••.ca .
