March 26, 2006
Trout Repopulate Damaged Creek
Byrne Creek Streamkeepers trapped four cutthroat trout and a dozen stickleback over the weekend in an area of the creek that was wiped out by a toxin a month ago. While the numbers are still way below average, they are encouraging because it appears that trout are are moving back into the main stem of the creek from its tributaries.
BC Environment Ministry biologists now estimate that 650 - 750 fish were killed in the creek on the Feb. 25/26 weekend based on the numbers of dead collected.
Here's a trout being measured before we released it.