Recovery Plan

A recovery planning process was initiated for Nechako white sturgeon by the province of British Columbia in September 2000. The intent of the Recovery Planning process is to ensure technical soundness and meaningful participation of the public. For more information on the Recovery Plan, you can view entire Recovery Plan for Nechako White Sturgeon (1.5 MB - PDF). 

In 2007 a Strategic Plan for the Nechako White Sturgeon Recovery Facility and Interpretive Centre was developed. This plan was prepared for the purposes of securing resources for up-front capital and a stable source of long-term funds to construct and operate a  a conservation aquaculture or 'recovery' facility in the Saik’uz Territory in the District of Vanderhoof. The facility will be a major, tangible step toward achieving the overall recovery goal of ensuring a self-sustaining population of white sturgeon in the Nechako River.

The second, and concurrent approach to sturgeon recovery is outlined in the Nechako White Sturgeon Habitat Management Plan developed in 2008. This plan, which combines active investigation of habitat requirements, with a continually increasing scale of habitat rehabilitation, habitat enhancement and where needed, habitat creation projects, will work towards the conservation of Nechako white sturgeon through natural in-river recruitment.

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