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adjacent meadow or lowland areas around it, is buffered against
dewatering and warming. Reproduction within three separate
components of a lake-stream system offers biological insurance
because if one tributary undergoes natural impairment, the others
will sustain reproduction.
The single 2.2 km inlet channel proposed does not replace the
three lost streams in terms of area, habitat function, duration of
function, or certainty of function. The inlet channel, if built, would
be a 2.2 km long. It is planned to function from April16 to
September 15, with the last 15 days including “ramping down”
flows.
Such temporally limited, spatially unequal, and functionally
limited channel habitat does not compensate, ‘like for like’, for the
loss of natural stream habitat in any sense whatever.
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Numbers of Fish ‘Replaced’
The compensation project, if implemented, does not replace
fish in the numbers that would be lost. Fish Lake is ‘considered’ to
be capable of supporting 85,000 trout composed of a mix of age
classes. The outlet stream is ‘estimated’ to produce 8,000 one year
old trout (page 8-9, section 8.3.2.3, Fisheries Compensation Plan).
In its fish number discussion the compensation plan, according to
DFO, does not consider the 80,000 trout associated with the
tributaries and Little Fish Lake.
The replacement channel would support 50 pairs of spawners
that would produce 1,500 eggs per female for a total of 75,000
eggs. The Prosperity Lake inlet stream is planned to support 30,000
fry until the end of September. If all such fry were to survive each
consecutive year for three years, there would be 90,000 trout
ranging from < 1 year to