April 21, 2006
More Trout Fry in Byrne Creek
More cutthroat trout fry are emerging in Burnaby's Byrne Creek, not quite two months after a toxin poured down a storm drain killed an estimated 700 fish.
We returned this little fella to the creek after taking many photos. You can still see a bit of a tummy bulge left over from the alevin (hatched but still in the gravel) stage where the yolk would have been.
That's my index finger outside the jar behind the fry!
(As always when I post such photos, I caution readers that netting fry is illegal, and streamkeepers do so under the auspices of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for identification purposes only.)
Posted by Paul at April 21, 2006 10:13 PM