Barrow Lake, located about 60 km north of Fort Chipewyan, contains the only verified population of shortjaw cisco in Alberta. A specific search for shortjaw cisco in the area around Barrow Lake was undertaken in an effort to gather additional information on its extent of occurrence in Alberta. Eight lakes in the region north of Lake Athabasca and east of Wood Buffalo National Park were surveyed by gillnetting in July and August 2000. No new populations of shortjaw cisco were found at these sites. Seven other nearby lakes had been sampled in 1996 and 1997 with similar results. Catch-per-unit-effort data from Barrow Lake suggest that this population of shortjaw cisco appears to have been stable over at least the past five years and probably the last 30 years. However, further monitoring is required to determine population trends with a scientifically acceptable level of confidence.