Angling restrictions could come to parts of Alberta as warm water causes ‘stress in fish’: biologist

Angling restrictions could come to parts of Alberta as warm water causes ‘stress in fish’: biologist

By Phil Heidenreich

Source: msn

8/17/2022

Credit: Global News

Warm weather and "quite low flows" in some of Alberta's waterways could soon prompt angling restrictions for southern and southwestern parts of the province, according to a biologist.

"We've been monitoring the flow and temperature situation and we found that after enjoying a pretty delayed snowpack melt and pretty high flows for a while, now we're experiencing quite low flows and and elevated temperatures," Paul Christensen, a senior fisheries biologist with Alberta Environment and Parks in Cochrane, told Global News on Wednesday.

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