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  • Cooling Squirrel Creek – Freshwater Conservation Canada Partners with Visionary Landowner to Restore a Brook Trout Stream and Protect it from Climate Change

    MILLBROOK –  Freshwater Conservation Canada (formerly Trout Unlimited Canada), a national leader in freshwater effort will help to cool this reach of the stream and reset conditions to support the return of Brook Trout Brook Trout are resident to Squirrel Creek, but due to multiple factors, they are rarely seen in this online pond upstream, this reach of stream is less hospitable to coldwater fish species like Brook Trout “I can remember catching large Brook Trout in this stream when I was a child, but it has been many years

  • Not Just Flowing Waters . . .

    A common misperception of Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) seems to be that its work and interest are focused The health of these waters, including those that are stocked with cold water fish species, primarily trout Many of the ‘aquatic resources’, especially trout, don’t like it! Lake aeration helps, but even with that, some lakes experience a decline in DO by mid-summer that trout that might improve the water quality and help maintain a sufficient level of DO to enable year-round trout

  • Breaking the Life Cycle

    Rio Grande native Cutthroat Trout have since been reintroduced and a barrier installed to protect the , Brook Trout, and Brown Trout. Banff National Park is home to two at-risk salmonid fish species: Westslope Cutthroat Trout and Bull Cutthroat Trout in Banff National Park. , Brook Trout, and Brown Trout.

  • The Rocky Mountain Sculpin: Alberta’s Hidden Gem

    As both predator (of invertebrates) and prey (think bull trout snack), it helps maintain the balance the sculpin but also other species, including those that are more directly important to humans, like trout BULL TROUT LIKE THIS RELIES ON PREY SUCH AS ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCULPIN. Recovery potential assessment of Rocky Mountain Sculpin (Cottus sp.), Eastslope populations, in Alberta

  • Continuing the “trail” of restoration in the Tay River watershed

    trap in 2020,  to a bridge retrofit in 2022, TUC has been working to help rehabilitate threatened Bull Trout braiding and multiple fords contributed sediment to the creek, degrading critical habitat for Bull Trout

  • Why Conserve Freshwater?

    Athabasca Rainbow Trout used to be so plentiful that they were excluded from catch limits and minimum Cumulative effects of land use have impacted water quality and ecosystem health in the Athabasca Rainbow Trout

  • Responding to Whirling Disease

    It can affect salmonid populations including trout and whitefish and is caused by a microscopic parasite Not all susceptible species exhibit signs of whirling disease – for example, brown trout are known to Westslope cutthroat trout and some strains of rainbow trout, however, are highly susceptible. province-wide were deployed to sample all “susceptible waters” in the province (e.g., waters that support trout

  • Cooling Streams Press Release

    Trout Unlimited Canada Launches Cooling Streams Pilot Project Tree Planting Program to restore riparian Markdale, ON – Trout Unlimited Canada, a national leader in freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration Trout Unlimited Canada’s Cooling Streams program is focused on restoring riparian areas – the buffer Through this investment to support the future planting of 10,000 trees per year with Trout Unlimited The Cooling Streams pilot project will be implemented by TUC staff, the local Happy Trout chapter, and

  • 2022 Alberta Fish Rescue

    are a 52 mm Spoonhead Sculpin, one of 1,294 fish captured from “LNHC 2” on October 14th, 2022, during Trout The most abundant sportfish species encountered were Mountain Whitefish, Brown Trout, and Rainbow Trout Featured Fish Records were broken this year when a 1,001 mm Lake Trout was caught at the Waterton-Belly This Lake Trout is the biggest fish ever recorded in Fish Rescue history. outshone by the Lake Trout).

  • Connect & Protect: Fish Creek Work Day

    participants and Friends of Fish Creek Staff enjoying the morning sun while surveying the creek for Brown Trout event of 2024 in Fish Creek Provincial Park, helping the Friends of Fish Creek with their annual Brown Trout Every fall, Brown Trout congregate in larger rivers and run up smaller tributaries to spawn. Like all trout, Brown Trout build nests in the gravel to protect their eggs, called redds.

  • Landon’s Creek Rehabilitation

    Written By: Scott Puillandre Middle Grand Chapter Executive Before The Middle Grand Chapter of Trout Whiteman’s Creek is a regionally important cold-water fishery for both resident rainbow and brown trout , and migratory rainbow trout (steelhead) within the Grand River watershed. Landon’s Creek supports self-sustaining brook trout and brown trout populations above a small dam structure , with the addition of migratory rainbow trout (steelhead) below the dam. 

  • Reconnecting Dickies Creek

    then reached out to the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority for advice who suggested contacting Trout particularly concerning for fish and aquatic animals that are sensitive to temperature, like Brook Trout During fisheries sampling, TUC’s crews found Brook Trout heavily reliant on small pockets of habitat Brook Trout can be seen as “canaries in the coal mine” – because they are sensitive to environmental

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