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Predator/prey... cont’d from pg 15
By 2018, “Predators were actually eating themselves out
of house and home, and fishing effort had greatly declined,”
stated Gord. “No more trophy-sized fish were being caught.”
“In a similar fishery challenge in Idaho, Lake Pend Oreille
biologists knew what to do. Using a multifaceted approach
to predator reduction, it took them just six years to bring
back a balance between predators and prey,” says Andrusak.
Today many former Kootenay Lake anglers travel to Idaho
instead of being able to fish their heritage and support local
businesses.
How does the Kootenay Lake Angler Incentive Program
fit in?
In 2019, the WAOC had become frustrated with lack
of ministry action to implement measures to reset the
imbalance. “Timid regulation changes were made with little
action towards seriously reducing the predators,” says
Andrusak.
Based on the science from Lake Pend Oreille’s Fish
Recovery Project, the West Arm Outdoors Club took action
in 2020. They secured funding from Habitat Conservation
Trust Foundation and the Freshwater Fisheries Society of
B.C. to launch the KLAIP aimed at reducing predator numbers
by providing major prize incentives for fishers to keep
more trout and char. In the first year of the project, 12,000
trout and char were retained, a considered success story.
“The West Arms Outdoor Club remains deeply concerned
that kokanee recovery is moving too slowly. After
nearly ten years there has been no appreciable change to
kokanee numbers. The science-based solution is at hand:
reduce the predators to the point when kokanee survival in
the lake starts to increase,” writes Grunerud.
Andrusak says: “The ministry seems paralyzed to implement
what the science already tells us as evidenced with the
Lake Pend Oreille story. The Pend Oreille Project did not
just rely on angler derbies to reduce the number of predatory
trout; they also used gill netting and trapping for predator
reduction, and yearly egg planting to increase kokanee.
On Kootenay Lake the ministry seems to want to rely solely
on the club’s (WAOC) project.”
The WAOC has stated that its project is only part of the
solution, and that the ministry must do a great deal more.
Short-term kokanee egg plants and aggressive removal of
predators must be done to return Kootenay Lake back to
the once world-renowned fishery for giant Rainbow trout.
How can fishers help?
Phone and write to the Honourable Katrine Conroy, the
Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations
and Rural Development and call for concrete action on further
removal of predators and regular planting of kokanee
eggs in spawning channels. Here are the BCWF Best Practices
for Meeting with Elected Officials: htttps://www.bcwf.
bc.ca/advocacy/
To read the full Kootenay Lake Kokanee Recovery Update
by the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource
Operations and Rural Development from January 2021 go
to: https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/kootenay/fsh/main/pdf/Kootenay_Lake_Kokanee_Recovery_Update_Jan_2021.pdf
For more information on the Kootenay Lake
Angler Incentive Program: https://bcwf.bc.ca/
kootenay-lake-angler-incentive-program/
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