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Originally Posted by horsetrader
n Alberta we can find 62 species of fish from which about 41 species are very little known while the other 21 species of fish are called sport or game fish, and are of interest commercial and domestic fishers as well as to anglers. 16 of these appreciated fish species are native to Alberta and 5 were introduced to this area through stocking.
Brook trout, golden trout, brown trout, Dolly Varden and smallmouth bass are the five species of game fish that have been introduced to Alberta. On the other hand, there are some fish species (non-game) that were illegally introduced and that developed self sustain populations, including:
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People seem to be excluding rainbows...while they are native to the Athabasca drainage...those that have been released in Alberta are not. They are introduced rainbows.
That being said...the discussion stalls at non Alberta native fish...however what can be equally as bad insofar as genetics and disease transfer problems are concerns are interdrainage species transfers. Bull trout from L. Kananaskis is not the same genetics as bull trout that were in the Oldman Drainage. Cutts from the Oldman drainage are not the same genetics as cutts in the Bow drainage. Walleye from Lesser Slave is not the same genetics as walleye in another drainage.
Just a thought.