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Larch Lake: Application calls for use of rotenone to kill off invasive species. By Lachlan Labere
market news staff
The province is targeting a small waterbody in the Larch Hills area with the hope of preventing a significant threat from spreading. Those people who frequent the popular Larch Hills cross-country ski area may be familiar with the Larch Lake Loop, named after the little lake not too
far past Cec’s Cabin. What skiers won’t notice, for obvious reasons, is the spreading population of the lake’s non-native inhabitants, yellow perch, a voracious fish species that can drastically alter a lake’s ecosystem. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources is in the process of applying for a pesticide use permit in order to treat the lake,
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federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans suggests that failing to deal with this small population of yellow perch would open the door for these fish to migrate into Shuswap Lake, and cause extensive damage to native species and the ecosystem as a whole,” says Clarke. BC Wildlife Federation member Don Trethewey says in these cases the fish has been illegally intro-
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duced to the lake. This is illegal in B.C., with a penalty of up to $100,000 for firsttime offenders. Asked about the process of treating the invasive species with rotenone, Trethewey says it’s the only satisfactory way to do it. “It doesn’t take long for them to totally over-populate a lake and become See Perch on page 2
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and the adjacent Larch Hills Creek, with rotenone. Ministry spokesperson Brennan Clarke describes the chemical as “an organic-based compound fatal to fish but not amphibians,” that has been used successfully in the management of yellow perch in nine other B.C. lakes over the past six years, including Gardom and Skmana lakes. “An assessment by the
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