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CITIZEN PHOTO BY MATTHEW HILLIER
Fisheries technicians from Lheidli T’enneh First Nation and workers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada hold one of the chinook salmon (in the plastic case at lower left) being moved at Cottonwood Island Park on Monday, Oct. 6.
Cottonwood Park to the same levels as the Nechako, ensuring that fish don’t get stranded in shallow pools during winter. During winter, these fish are likely to die due to the cold, ice build-up and a lack of oxygen from groundwater plants. As well,
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Fish being relocated by hand before major Cottonwood Island excavation project
More than 5,000 fish, including 20 chinook salmon, trapped in the channels in Cottonwood Island Park have a new home in the Nechako River thanks to efforts from community volunteers and various fisheries groups this fall. The fish are being scared into nets by workers and volunteers and then put into buckets, where they were transported via bubblers (which ensure the fish can get oxygen) into the Nechako. The goal of the project, which is run by the Spruce City Wildlife Association, is to prevent the death of these fish during an upcoming excavation project meant to excavate the channels in
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these excavations will remove decades of sediment, pollution and trash that have been dumped in these channels. The channels also get disconnected from the main stem of the Nechako River yearly, and the resulting stranding of fish can lead to many preventable deaths,
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said Kirstin Jorgensen, fisheries biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, on Monday, Oct. 6 at Cottonwood Island. “This channel right now and in many months of the year is disconnected from the Nechako main stem, so this is what we call the Cottonwood Island Park side channel,” said Jorgensen. “This is due to the fact that the Nechako River watershed is regulated by dams and very rarely does this channel actually connect to the main stem. “Fish come in here when it is connected during fresh water, when it’s backwatered from the Fraser River or during the summer temperature management plan when they release additional flows from Finway upstream, so when we have water, fish come in here and they never get out. The main objective is to reduce fish stranding because when they get stuck in here over winter, it’s unlikely that they survive.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 2