Our community-driven project, the Tåîchô Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring Project, started in August 2010, as a collaboration between the Wek’èezhìi Renewable Resources Board, the Tåîchô Government and the Wek’èezhìi Land and Water Board. Water quality and fish health are of concern to the Tåîchô people. Development and climate change are two potential threats to the fish resources that have sustained Tåîchô for generations. Working together, Tåîchô communities and scientists are collecting baseline information on fish and fish habitat to compare any future changes to, and developing a way to monitor fish that builds on both traditional Tåîchô knowledge and science. Each summer the project rotates to a different Tåîchô community, and information is exchanged between elders, fishers, youth and scientists. Participants share Tåîchô perspectives on assessing ecosystem health and take part in hands-on scientific monitoring activities such as collecting fish tissues and water and sediment samples for analysis. The importance of this project for Tåîchô communities is that it is building the capacity to identify changes to important fish resources in the future.