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Old 05-25-2018, 10:51 AM
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Default More lakes closed in Banff this summer

The 2018 Regs are out on paper although not yet on the internet that I can find.
Major changes in Banff National Park as a number of Lakes and flowing water streams are closed.
This is to monitor the Lakes for Whirling Disease as these waters contain BNP'S only populations of pure strain Native Westslope Cutthroat Trout.
Included on the list as closed to fishing this year are the following lakes... Sawback ,Rainbow , Mystic and Marvel.
Hopefully all the testing is concluded this year and the Lakes are back open next year but then again who knows how long this process will last.
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Old 05-25-2018, 04:56 PM
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Any chance you could upload a picture of the regs as you say they aren't online yet?
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Old 05-25-2018, 05:33 PM
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Weird that the parks website doesn't show this data. These waterbodies were closed last year too.

An article on the subject.

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...irling-disease

The following link shows restricted activity status(find Sept 9 2016 date).

https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/scond/Rec_...p?opark=100092
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Old 05-25-2018, 06:20 PM
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Default everyone needs to be schooled on this

Its going to be just a matter of time before everything is going to have
whirling disease in it. Every fisherman and fish club should have to see the presentation put out by the government so we can understand whats happening and the importance of cleaning and drying everything, including your fishing line.
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Old 05-29-2018, 12:52 PM
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Most of the closures are NEW to this year.

http://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/jasp.../peche-fishing
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Old 05-29-2018, 01:38 PM
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All this fervour over whirling disease is a day lat and a dollar short.

It is everywhere. It must be throughout BC now also. Could be impacting salmon already.

What we need to be focused on is zebra mussels. They are knocking on our doorstep.
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Old 05-29-2018, 02:30 PM
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Thats great, so they close down the fishing opportunity so they can test it. How does fishing in the lake affect the testing?

Second, if the water does test positive, then what? From what i have read there is no 'fixes' for the disease.

By their logic the only way to stop the spread of either zebra or whirling is to close the body of water to large boats e.g.. (Waterton, etc) and fishing, so if we just stop all boating and fishing then we will never have to worry about the disease and they can go about spending our money on testing for something that if it does exist in that body of water, they have no way of stopping it anyway......Meanwhile there are no fishing or water sports left to partake..

Sounds like a plan......not

Spend the government money on trying to find a solution to these problems. Collaborate with other jurisdictions in Canada and the US that have been experiencing this for years and help them with a solution. This is a north american wide problem and should be dealt with on that scale. Honestly, the enforcement is a good start to slow the spread, but in reality i highly doubt the enforcement of inspections will have much affect on the rate of spread of either Zebra or Whirling. There are too many gaps in the inspections and very few violators will ever get found through the inspection stations. Total speculation, but i bet 1 in every 100 boats on the road go through an inspection station...It is creating awareness and should continue, i just don't think it will drastically affect the speed at which these spread, as they seem to spread very very easily.
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