Friday, November 1, 2013

Group rescues thousands of fish from irrigation canals

Trout Unlimited Project Biologist Lesley Peterson, left, and volunteer Joe Neidermayer, with orange gloves, electrofish with other volunteers during a fish rescue at an irrigation canal south of Granum.
Photograph by: Colleen De Neve, Calgary Herald

Group rescues thousands of fish from irrigation canals

By Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald October 27, 2013

NEAR GRANUM, AB — The water in the irrigation canal, between Granum and Fort Macleod in southern Alberta, is only knee deep but th
ere’s fish hiding in the riffles and pools beneath the surface.

“Any fish that are in here after today are dead,” says Brian Meagher, a provincial biologist with Trout Unlimited Canada in Calgary. “The fish will not be able to overwinter here.”

Read story, plus video, plus 16 photos here: http://bit.ly/HzR8vp

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