Ontario monitoring for health program

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If your symptoms worsen and if you are not feeling well, a physician may check on you by phone or a video call. It is important to remember that the remote monitoring program is not an emergency response program. If you have any symptoms of severe illness, please visit your nearest emergency department. How do I monitor my condition at home? Remotely monitoring your condition through the Vivify app at home can be used for: Monitoring your progress and checking in while you are at home to answer your questions or concerns Allowing you to directly connect with the remote patient monitoring team via text while using the app.

Who is involved? How does enrollment work? How do I download the app Vivify on your smartphone? What about my privacy? What if my condition worsens? The first sampling cycle of the BsM program occurred from to The program provides NDMNRF biologists with additional benefits and opportunities to gather information on the biodiversity and health of aquatic environments. Question: Why is sampling conducted once every 5 years?

Answer: Five years is an appropriate interval for detecting changes in fish populations based on a management or environmental change. This is due partly to the generation time of many recreational fish species.

It would be impractical to monitor all of the lakes in Ontario, so a sample of lakes from each zone is selected for monitoring. Lakes are randomly selected in proportion to the total number of lakes in each zone, starting with lakes greater than 50 hectares and up to , hectares. Fifty hectares was chosen as the smallest lake size based on the ability to access and use sampling gear in the lake, while , hectares was the largest because lakes larger than this are already intensively monitored by the ministry.

There are over 18, lakes in Ontario with a surface area between 50 and , hectares. Lakes are randomly selected for the program and identified as either a trend lake or a state lake. A trend lake is sampled once in each monitoring cycle. Trend lakes must contain brook trout, lake trout, or walleye.

These species are top predators and indicators of the status of coldwater and coolwater aquatic ecosystems. State lakes are sampled once in a 5-year cycle and may or may not be sampled again in future sampling cycles. State lakes are any lakes greater than 50 hectares regardless of the fish species present. The objectives of monitoring state lakes are to: sample lakes where the fish communities are unknown, as a measure of biodiversity, and to track the spread of invasive species.

The BsM program aims to survey an equal number of trend and state lakes across the province within each zone. Monitoring trend lakes is best for detecting changes in fish populations and aquatic ecosystems over time, while monitoring state lakes is best for describing the overall status of fish populations at a point in time. Including both trend and state lakes within the monitoring program is important for providing a balance between detecting changes quickly and describing the state of fishes and aquatic resources.

Only four FMZs 6, 7, 10, and 15 have significant brook trout fisheries for sampling. The total number of trend lakes surveyed in Ontario for Cycle 1 of the BsM program was approximately The number of state lakes originally selected in each FMZ was proportional to the total number of all lakes between 50 and , hectares in each FMZ.

However, due to constraints in Cycle 1, fewer state lakes were sampled than was originally planned. The total number of state lakes surveyed in Ontario for Cycle 1 of the BsM program was This includes netting for fish, collecting water samples, checking for invasive species, conducting angling effort counts, and in some cases, collecting water depth bathymetric information for the lakes.

Sampling on each lake may take 5 to 8 days to complete. Fish netting is conducted to study and monitor the abundance and health of all fish species in a lake. Broad-scale monitoring uses a combination of two types of gill nets:. Large mesh nets are useful for targeting sport fish like brook trout, lake trout, smallmouth bass and walleye and providing population size estimates.

A variety of information is collected from the fish caught in each lake survey:. Small mesh nets are useful for providing information on fish communities how many species exist. For small mesh nets, fish species, numbers caught, and length are recorded for each species. Service Description :. Fees :. Application :. Send email with information to receive forms. Languages :. Language Notes :. French programs offered.

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