BrianR Posted October 12, 2017 Posted October 12, 2017 Hi All; I watched an interview on CTV Calgary .About the rebuild/update of our hatchery.They are all overdue this.But just SLH,was mentioned.So they are moving out all the fish,some lakes will get 2 stockings.My question & hopefully someone may be able to answer.Stocking for 2018,not going to happen ?.Are they going to purchase stock from other hatcheries,hopefully disease free.thks. Brian 1 Quote
murray Posted October 12, 2017 Posted October 12, 2017 Very good questions Brian, don't know the answers but I am interested. Are there any hatchery so elsewhere in the province? Quote
threepwood Posted October 12, 2017 Posted October 12, 2017 I talked to the staff a couple of weeks ago. It sounds like the plan is to try to maintain the usual stocking program by beefing up operations at the other hatcheries, but I don't have much detail - it was just a quick conversation in passing. Quote
jgib01 Posted October 12, 2017 Posted October 12, 2017 I meant to ask some questions about the impact of whirling on the stocking program when I was at Allison Creek just before the Labour Day weekend, but unfortunately no one was around at the time. They would have likely had some info too on the impact of the Bow refurbishment by that time, so unfortunate I wasn't a little more persistent in trying to find someone in the know. Looking at the October stocking report, they seem to be going great guns this fall; makes sense why now. Perhaps that's why we got some cutties in one of our local ponds for the first time I'm aware of. Quote
BrianR Posted October 13, 2017 Author Posted October 13, 2017 17 hours ago, murray said: Very good questions Brian, don't know the answers but I am interested. Are there any hatchery so elsewhere in the province? Murray; There IS Allison,Raven,Cold lk. & SLH.Raven is in terrible shape[Brood stk stn],Allison is a hatchery[generally looks after P&T,down s.w ab].Cold Lk. [Hatchery,they do THE AF3N & TIGERS.SLH grows most of the trout for the prov. These are guesstamits,on my behave.. 1 Quote
jgib01 Posted October 18, 2017 Posted October 18, 2017 Just heard there was damage to Allison with the fire that is happening in the Crowsnest Pass. The media report is somewhat vague, mentioning that "the local fish hatchery has been damaged". I had no idea the fire was that far north, as I thought it originated in the Sentinel Industrial area. Anyone else have any more definitive info than this? If it is shut down too things could get very interesting for the stocking program, in the South especially. Quote
DonAndersen Posted October 19, 2017 Posted October 19, 2017 Allison may have lost power. May not be directly fire damaged. Fire still outta control according to CTV Calgary this AM. Don Quote
yonderin Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 Fire went nowhere near the hatchery. Maybe a hectar burnt right at the corner where it did jump the highway. Wondering how that misinformation got started. Quote
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