Olds to kill goldfish in Winter Lake
Winter lake is a residential lake in Olds, not your typical Alberta lake. Thirty to forty thousand fish ? Never realized the scope of the problem was that large.
http://www.oldsalbertan.ca/article/P...unced-20170627 Grizz |
Wow. That's quite the problem they have.
My buddies and I fished this trout pond in Southern Alberta and to our surprise, we caught a couple good-sized goldfish. Naturally, we killed it and reported it; however, ESRD never responded. Has anyone else have experience with reporting invasive species? Did they ever respond to you? |
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Rotenone doesn't just kill fish, it is also a non-selective insecticide. So instead of sterilizing this lake, killing off all the dragonfly, damselfly, and other beneficial insects along with the goldfish, why not introduce some pike into this lake to take care oft the goldfish? Let the pike get fat off the goldfish for a year or a few, then open the lake to pike fishing.
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Invertebrates will re-colonize the pond after the goldfish are taken care off
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"I don't know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she'll die." Since it's a residential reservoir maybe they can get a deal with T&T supermarket to harvest the goldfish. They sell every other kind of fish. :sHa_sarcasticlol: |
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Asked to be kept up to speed but I don't think that is going to happen. This slough has thousands of Carp in it none of the locals know when they got put in it either. :shark: |
Any pond which has a seasonal stream which then flows into the Red Deer river below dixon dam is certainly susceptable to a prussian carp invasion. That would certainly mean the Medicine and Blindman rivers and their tributaries and ponds. As far as Olds is concerned, some of the goldfish/carp may have swam upstream. Unless there is an impassible weir. I saw many of them right below the dam at Hilliers reservoir, which has a seasonal creek flowing out of it, a few years ago already. That is only a few minutes from Olds. In other words, any seasonal creeks which drain into the Rosebud river which leads to the Red Deer river have been open to migrating carp for a few years.
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There are a few ponds in St Albert that are full of goldfish and koi. I haven't caught any yet and when trying to contact anyone about it I don't ever here back.
I wouldn't be surprised if people dump their aquarium fish in the Sturgeon river as well. |
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