I was saddened to hear about the death of another creek, yet heartened that local stewards are not giving up. Reay Creek in the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island has had toxic kills for three years in a row, yet Sidney Anglers, Peninsula Streams and Friends of Reay Creek vow to continue restocking efforts. See this article (don't know how permanent this link will be) in the Peninsula News Review.
This case is particularly poignant for me because some 700 fish were killed by a toxin a month ago in Byrne Creek, the urban waterway in Burnbay, BC, on which I volunteer as a streamkeeper. That followed a massive kill of nearly 5,000 fish in Byrne Creek in 1998.
I wonder how many creeks are killed each year in BC? Canada? The world? There should be some means of keeping track of such events and comparing them over time.
Check out the Peninsula Streams Society for more info on the Reay Creek kill and rehabilitation efforts, along with coverage of other watersheds in that area.
Posted by Paul at April 4, 2006 09:27 PM