INGONISH, N.S. — Ongoing efforts to recover the salmon population within a northern Cape Breton waterway reached its second stage earlier this week. As ...
The wild Atlantic salmon population in Clyburn Brook has been dwindling for years, so the Cape Breton Highlands National Park has been working with four other national parks, local First Nations and Dalhousie University’s Aquatron Laboratory to study them and their habitat. - Parks CanadaINGONISH, N.S. — Ongoing efforts to recover the salmon population within a northern Cape Breton waterway reached its second stage earlier this week.
“This is part of our restoration program that we’ve been running since 2019,” said Sarah Penney, Atlantic Salmon Recovery and Resource Management officer for Cape Breton Highlands National Park. “We captured these fish a couple of years ago in the Clyburn Brook as smolts when they were leaving.Sarah Penney, Atlantic Salmon Recovery and Resource Management officer for Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
The Cape Breton Highlands National Park has been working in collaboration with four other national parks — two in New Brunswick, two in Newfoundland and Labrador — along with local First Nations and the Aquatron Laboratory, to study Atlantic salmon and their habitat. In a November 2010 assessment summary, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada , an independent group of wildlife experts and scientists that identifies species at risk across the country, designated the eastern Cape Breton population of Atlantic salmon as endangered.
As part of an Atlantic Salmon restoration project in conjunction with Dalhousie University’s Aquatron Laboratory, the Cape Breton Highlands National Park has been collecting juvenile salmon and rearing them at the Halifax lab. Members from Parks Canada and the project on Monday afternoon released upward of 30 salmon back into the Clyburn Brook, near Ingonish. - Parks Canada
"The Eastern Cape Breton district unit of Atlantic Salmon was assessed by COSEWIC as endangered in 2010. A listing decision on this district unit has not been made to date."Marin Stubbings, a Parks Canada resource management technician, helps place upwards of 30 salmon into the Clyburn Brook as part of an Atlantic Salmon restoration project in conjunction with Dalhousie University’s Aquatron Laboratory. - Parks Canada“There’s a whole swath of reasons,” Penney said.