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| Charlie Pacas Parks Canada Helicopters were used to place trees in the Spray River to improve fish habitat. |
New habitat created for fish in Spray River
Oct 13, 2011 06:00 am | CATHY ELLIS
Rocky Mountain Outlook
A threatened fish population in Banff’s Spray River has been given a fighting chance in the wake of a massive restoration effort of habitat destroyed as a result of a faulty hydroelectric facility.
TransAlta has spent up to $500,000 to restore habitat in the mid-section of the Spray River, including dropping 450 to 500 trees by helicopter and rafts into the river to create new pools where fish can thrive.
Crews equipped with electro-fishers then saved about 2,000 fish that would have been stranded in remnant pools and side channels once water stopped breaching a dam and dirty and unnaturally high water levels subsided.
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