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BCWF
10-07-2015, 01:04 PM
For immediate release – October 6, 2015

SURREY, B.C.

The BC Wildlife Federation has serious concerns about the collapse of kokanee fish populations in Kootenay Lake.

Kokanee are a land-locked salmon species that spend their entire life cycle in fresh water.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO) reported last week that kokanee spawner numbers at the Meadow Creek spawning channel have declined to a historic low.
On average over the last five decades this channel has produced about 500,000 spawners.

In the last three years those numbers have dwindled to 200,000 in 2013, 73,000 in 2014 and less than 10,000 in 2015. The prediction for 2016 is about the same as 2015.


See this link for more details.

http://bcwf.net/index.php/new-items-sp-25573/news-releases