Leandre Vigneault
Community Advisor: Patrick Fairweather
Leandre Vigneault was born and raised on Haida Gwaii. After obtaining a BSc in fisheries and marine biology he moved back to Haida Gwaii in 1993 and has worked and volunteered there ever since. Throughout his career he has pursued fisheries related work for a wide variety of employers including DFO, McMillan Bloedel and Haida Fisheries before working as an independent consultant. His work has focused primarily on salmon and salmon habitat and working with fish hatcheries, designing and conducting watershed restoration projects, providing fisheries advice for logging companies and conducting spawner escapement surveys. Leandre has long history of volunteerism which began in 1984 when as a teenager he started an enhancement project in the Tlell River watershed, that project has since morphed into the Tlell Watershed Society a group which is dedicated to conservation and data collection in the watershed. He has been a member of two land use and two marine use planning processes that were completed on Haida Gwaii and is currently a director with the Tlell Watershed Society, a member of the Haida Gwaii Integrated Advisory Committee, a member of the local Sports Fish Advisory Committee, a director with the Graham Island Advisory Planning Commission and the current chair of the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board.