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logo 11/23/2024 6:55:35 PM     
Why volunteers rescue 1,000s of stranded fish every fall from this irrigation canal 
By Adeline Gladu CA Source: calgaryjournal 11/1/2023
Adeline Gladu
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.

 
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