Trout Unlimited Canada and its partners, the Nile Creek Enhancement Society and Vancouver Island University are very pleased to receive funding through DFO’s Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnership Program (RFCPP) for two projects, Thames and Nash Creeks, that are part of the
Work on Thames Creek on Vancouver Island will improve the ability of coastal cutthroat trout, steelhead and coho and chum salmon to navigate a near impassible old railway culvert and spillway approximately 5km upstream of the Georgia Strait. This project will open up over 14km of spawning and nursery habitat for the salmon and trout.
The work on Nash Creek entails opening a low flow channel to allow smelting salmon and young coastal cutthroat trout opportunities to enter the Georgia Strait from Nash Creek. The outlet of Nash Creek does not flow into the Georgia Strait during certain migration times stranding small fish and creating a high mortality due to isolation and predation. Work on Nash will open a low-flow channel to allow fish movement out to the Strait during lower flow periods.
Both these projects are part of the Phase II of the Watershed Renewal Program that has core funding from theRBC Blue Water Project™ as well as project funding from the Community Salmon Program (PSF), the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund and from the WC Kitchen Foundation.
Trout Unlimited Canada was also successful in receiving grants in Alberta for the Mallard Point Project and the Prairie Creek Project. In Ontario, TUC received a RFCPP for the Bronte Creek Watershed Renewal Program to remove an old culvert on Bronte Creek that is creating a backwater in the stream in the Village of Carlisle and affecting water temperatures, water quality, aquatic habitat and coldwater fish communities.
Please click here to read a recent press release regarding this funding announcement.
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