Salvage permit

[chickensashimi]

Anyone here ever get a salvage permit and have any success?
Also, if you happened to get a bull or sturgeon are you allowed to keep them or just leave them for crows and seagulls?

[HuyFishin]

Such a big gray area. I would contact Fish and wildlife to find out any details. Not sure how to determine which waterway or waterbody is considered low water levels, low dissolved oxygen ect. Nothing about protected species ect.

https://mywildalberta.ca/buy-licences/fishing-licenses-fees/salvage-fishing-licences.aspx

[TROLLER]

Not too likely to ever find a bull or sturgeon in any of the irrigation canals

[.243dude]

Not too likely to ever find a bull or sturgeon in any of the irrigation canals

I know of one canal that has bull trout.

[chickensashimi]

Not too likely to ever find a bull or sturgeon in any of the irrigation canals

That’s what I thought also.........till I seen one on the upper side of a drop structure adjacent to a reservoir in pp1 , it was a long way from the river, and would have to swim up another drop structure to get back to the river, then last I saw the biggest brown of my life just on the other side of a drop structure (a couple guys had told me about trout being in this reservoir, I initially thought they were on crack, then started paying attention to the water a little more and, started noticing the odd rise that definitely weren’t pike) fly fishing for pike, I got about five casts (wasn’t set up for trout) then he must’ve seen me, and gone, there nothing stopping the sturgeon from going down those as well, so one would only assume.........

[chickensashimi]

Such a big gray area. I would contact Fish and wildlife to find out any details. Not sure how to determine which waterway or waterbody is considered low water levels, low dissolved oxygen ect. Nothing about protected species ect.

https://mywildalberta.ca/buy-licences/fishing-licenses-fees/salvage-fishing-licences.aspx

Gray indeed, can’t find any real info, guess I’ll have to talk to fur’n’feathers

[Drewski Canuck]

Trout Unlimited had a program of going around the Canal gates at the end of season and capturing the trapped trout (rainbows and browns usually) and then transporting the trout back to the Bow River.

There should be some pictures of the sizeable fish saved that would have just died if Trout Unlimited would not have stepped in.

This is the reality of irrigation ditches feeding reservoirs off of our rivers, and then out to irrigation canals that have flood gates and control valves.

Drewski