Why volunteers rescue 1,000s of stranded fish every fall from this irrigation canal

Why volunteers rescue 1,000s of stranded fish every fall from this irrigation canal

By Adeline Gladu

Source: calgaryjournal

11/1/2023

Credit: ADELINE GLADU

Volunteers who scoop stranded fish from an irrigation canal northwest of Fort Macleod wonder why the province won’t do more to prevent fish from getting trapped in a waterway.

Southwestern Alberta is home to fish like bull trout and lake sturgeon that are on Alberta’s at-risk or threatened species list. Each fall, it’s a race against time to rescue thousands of fish like these and others and relocate them to the nearby Old Man River before they suffocate in a nearly one-kilometre cement flume.

Oldman River

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