Webinar: The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database – September 18, 2024

The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database: an improved tool to support fish habitat connectivity in Canada

Presented by: Nick Mazany-Wright, Senior Spatial Ecologist, Canadian Wildlife Federation

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm EDT
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The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database (CABD) is a standardized, curated, central, and open repository for barrier and connectivity data in Canada. The CABD is an important tool to support work in a variety of fields and sectors related to freshwater connectivity and aquatic barriers. The vision for the CABD is all of Canada’s barrier and connectivity information in one place – easily and openly accessible!

CWF is proud to announce new updates to the CABD, adding even more aquatic barrier information and providing new tools to allow Canadians across the country to help us fill information gaps. With the new release, in addition to dams, waterfalls, and fishways, the CABD now includes information on stream crossings nationally, which affords us a more complete picture of the effect these structures are having on fish and fish habitat. We’re also introducing a feature that allows anyone to click on a barrier in CABD webtool and provide us with information updates based on their local knowledge, thereby helping the CABD improve over time and fill data gaps.

CABD web tool: https://aquaticbarriers.ca/en

CABD documentation site: https://cabd-docs.netlify.app/