COWICHAN RIVER AT LAKE COWICHAN

COWICHAN RIVER BC WSC

COWICHAN RIVER AT LAKE COWICHAN (08HA002) is a real-time river monitoring station on the COWICHAN RIVER in BC, operated by the Water Survey of Canada. Riverbot tracks its river conditions, including water level, and streamflow and keeps recent, datum-labelled water-level history for anglers. 10 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.

WSC station ID
08HA002
Operated by
Water Survey of Canada
Province
BC
Coordinates
48.8259, -124.0530

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Fish recorded near this station

Sampled in this watershed

Cowichan River At Lake Cowichan has documented fish occurrence data from British Columbia provincial surveys (WHSE_FISH.FISS_FISH_OBSRVTN_PNT_SP). The survey records 10 species from observation sampling near this station.

Species include: Brown Catfish (formerly Brown Bullhead) (Ameiurus nebulosus), Prickly Sculpin (Cottus asper), Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), Western Brook Lamprey (Lampetra richardsoni), Pacific Lamprey (Lampetra tridentata), and 5 others.

1 additional record(s) were reported as unidentified or mixed-taxa observations and are not resolved to species.

Where these records come from

Evidence
Sampled in this watershed
Fish were sampled elsewhere in the same watershed — a provincial or federal survey nearby, not at the gauge itself.
Records
10 species
from 23 individual records
Observed
Jun 1, 1950 – Oct 16, 1985
22 dated records

Sources