Angela Kroning
Community Advisor: Jim Wilson
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Angela is an active volunteer with the Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society counting spawners, removing invasive plants and sampling water quality. With the Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish she volunteers to sample for Surf Smelt and Pacific Sand Lance eggs and helps out with eelgrass transplanting efforts.  She volunteers and through her consulting company, provides occasional research for the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association; she has been their representative at the Ocean Protection Plan Forums. Research includes environmental reviews of a proposed open pit gravel mine at McNab Creek, an Independent Power Project at Narrows Inlet and the Woodfibre LNG proposal. Together with Dianne Sanford, they have offered Streamkeepers Training on the Sunshine Coast for the past twenty years. In spite of the set back of COVID-19, Angela is enthusiastic about  the renewed interest shown by her community in the local marine environment and in salmon in particular.

Dianne Sanford- alternate

Dianne Sanford is a Director with the Seagrass Conservation Working group and has  been mapping and monitoring eelgrass since 2001.  Working with SeaChange Marine Conservation Society, she has coordinated various shoreline and subtidal restoration projects on the Sunshine Coast.

She is sole proprietor of Moonstone Enterprises, since its inception in 1996, and provides Environmental Education and environmental monitoring services, working closely with the Sunshine Coast School District and the many camps on the Sunshine Coast, as well as the local governments.  Marine education is her specialty, and she has developed and delivered many beach programs.

 Many children on the Sunshine Coast know her through the Salmonids in the Classroom program, as she held the Education Coordinator contract for Fisheries and Oceans Canada for many years, in which salmon are raised from eyed eggs to fry. 

 She is a Streamkeepers Trainer for the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation, a past director of NRAC, (Natural Resources Advisory Committee, a group advising the Sunshine Coast Regional District,) and alternate director on the SEHAB committee (Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board).

 Dianne is the coordinator for Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish, coordinating volunteer sampling for sand lance and surf smelt over the past ten years at various Sunshine Coast beaches.

Several local beaches have proven positive for surf smelt and sand lance spawn.