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Any number of cumulative impacts can affect the overall health of our watersheds, fisheries and aquatic insects as they relate to flowing water ecosystems. There are many variables in the natural riverine environment that influence aquatic invertebrate distribution from year to year. Natural disruptions such as spring/summer flooding, winter freezing and spring thawing, moving ice, […]
Please find below two links to articles that have come out of Montana recently that are very informative and enlightening to see how biologists in Montana are very involved and decisive about resolving impacts to fisheries. These articles discuss the many levels and cumulative impacts precious trout fisheries all over North America are under and […]
INTRODUCTION What our group is proposing is a modern fishery management program for the section of the Red Deer River below the Dickson Dam onward down to Joffre Bridge Below the city of Red Deer. These sorts of fisheries are referred to as tailwaters and the fish best suited for these water types is the […]
z We would like to take this opportunity to clarify who Friends of the Red Deer River are as a Group and what our purpose is. Our current objective is to urge all the outdoor organizations to come together collaboratively and show support for a common goal. We are the first to admit this will […]
sd Trout Unlimited Canada Dated: Feb 02 2021 Bow River Chapter Mr. Rick Moses – Chapter President 51 34th avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2S 2Y9 Our group (Friends of the Red Deer River) has been tirelessly working for 35 years at reaching out to the province to embrace the proposals we think could lead towards […]
Native species are very precious and should be saved from a species at risk designation that is critical that this should be done. How much did the Walleye program cost the Province over thirty years where one species was transported to so many lakes, they originally weren’t present in until the province initiated this program. […]
ACA Review and Assessment of Walleye Genetics and Stocking in Alberta Authors: Fiona D. Johnston, Andrew J. Paul Walleye (Sander vitreus) are native to Alberta occurring in large rivers and lakes through out the province. Walleye stocking in the province of Alberta has occurred since 1926. The spatial pattern of stocking has tended to move […]
There are three subspecies of lake trout. There is the common Lake Trout (Salvelinus Namaycush Namaycush), the Siscowet Lake Trout (Salvelinus Namaycush Siscowet) and the less common Rush Lake Trout (Salvelinus Namaycush Huronicus). Some lakes do not have pelagic forage fish during the period of summer stratification. In these lakes, lake trout take on a […]
A list our group (Friends of the Red Deer River) has compiled for the Alberta Fish and Game Association (fish chair – Darryl Smith) so our two groups can concentrate on and can work on together. These may not end up being the five points of focus these are just a starting point to open […]
What if the fishery managers within Alberta outside Banff and Jasper and the managers overseeing these two federal parks located in Alberta could work together collaboratively on a mutually beneficial project? What huge possibilities, solutions and revenue streams could these two areas realize together. What if the outdoor conservation organizations and fisheries managers that manage […]