Wastewater Characterization of Fish Processing Plant Effluents

WASTEWATER CHARACTERIZATION OF
FISH PROCESSING PLANT EFFLUENTS
PREFACE
The Fraser River Estuary Management Program (FREMP) was established to co-ordinate
and build consensus on balancing the environment and economy along the Fraser
Estuary, and has placed emphasis on integrating the needs of key users in the estuary.
There are six funding partners: Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and
Parks (BCELP), the Fraser River Harbour Commission (FRHC), and the North Fraser
Harbour Commission (NFHC).
The main focus of the Water Quality/Waste Management Committee of the Fraser River
Estuary Management Program is the co-ordination of monitoring of the environmental
quality of the Fraser River Estuary. In this role, NovaTech Consultants Inc. was
contracted to characterize the eff luent from a number of fish processing plants.
This project was co-ordinated by Eric McGreer of FREMP. Scientific authorities were Bert
Kooi and Lisa Walls of Environment Canada and Doug Walton of the BC Ministry of
Environment, Lands and Parks.
Funding for this project was provided by Environment Canada through the Fraser River
Action Plan. One component of the Fraser River Action Plan is pollution abatement. This
project helps to achieve a first step in the Action Plan strategy for pollution abatement,
which is to determine contaminant loadings from all origins in the Fraser River Basin.
The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily state or
reflect the policies of Environment Canada.
This study would not have been possible without the full co-operation of the participating
companies cited in the Acknowledgements.