August 16, 2004
Netting, Moving Fish in Byrne Creek
It's time to clean out the sediment pond upstream of the Byrne Creek spawning/rearing habitat, and before that can be done, all the fish have to be trapped and moved out.
Chris and Yota from City of Burnaby Environmental Services and Pete from Envirowest brought drag nets, and nearly a dozen streamkeeper volunteers brought hand nets and buckets.
First nets were placed upstream and downstream to keep fish from entering the pond. Then drag nets were pulled through by hand, and trapped fish were transferred to buckets.
Those buckets were taken downstream, where streamkeepers counted, identified, measured, and released the fish.
It was arduous, yet enjoyable work under the hot sun. We netted and transferred for over four hours. We moved about 400 fish today!
Posted by Paul at August 16, 2004 08:04 PM