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| Courtesy: Calgary Herald |
Officials cull 'brookies' to restore cutthroat trout
Native fish edged out by interlopers
By Clara Ho,
Calgary Herald
September 19, 2011
Shelley Humphries dips a metal loop attached to a 20-kilogram backpack equipped with a battery into the coursing currents of an unnamed creek just below a waterfall in Banff National Park.
Her Parks Canada colleague Joanne Williams stands a few steps behind, net in hand, waiting.
As Humphries sends a weak electrical current into the water, two fish flop out and land neatly in the mesh netting, their muscles temporarily frozen by the "electrofishing."
Only the westslope cutthroat trout, named for the bright, orange markings beneath its jaw, will be spared.
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