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Development Application Guidelines: Fish Habitat Assessment
Published by City of Hamilton
This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Hamilton
- Date
- February 13, 2026
- Also called
- Fish Habitat Assessment
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 12
- Agencies
- Hamilton Conservation Authority · Conservation Halton · Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority · Grand River Conservation Authority
Overview
Hamilton's Development Application Guidelines for a Fish Habitat Assessment, last updated February 13, 2026, a study of fish, fish habitat and aquatic Species at Risk near a watercourse, often part of an Environmental Impact Statement. It quotes the adjacent-lands widths for cold-water and warmwater watercourses from the Urban and Rural Hamilton Official Plans, and sets out scoping, background review, field surveys including in-water works timing, permitting and fish community surveys, then analysis and documentation. A six-step procedure and a list of sources for fish background information follow.
What it covers
- Purpose
- Prepared By
- Contents
- Scoping a Fish Habitat Assessment
- Background Review
- Preliminary SAR Screening
- Preliminary Fish Species Review
- Field Surveys
- In-water Works Timing
- Permitting
- Fish Community Surveys
- Headwater Drainage Feature (HDF) Assessments
- Analysis and Conclusions
- Documentation
- Procedure
- General Resources for Fish Background Information
- Reviewed and Approved By
- Contact
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