Parks Canada is closing all our bodies of water in British Columbia’s Kootenay and Yoho nationwide parks, and proscribing watercraft in Alberta’s Waterton Lakes Nationwide Park in an effort to gradual the unfold of invasive species.
The lakes, creeks and tributaries in japanese British Columbia might be closed till no less than March subsequent yr in response to the lethal whirling illness parasite present in fish.
On the similar time, non-motorized watercraft from outdoors park boundaries is not going to be allowed into Waterton Lakes Nationwide Park in southern Alberta, to guard in opposition to each whirling illness and invasive zebra and quagga mussels.
British Columbia’s first case of whirling illness was detected in Emerald Lake final yr and was later present in Kicking Horse River, Wapta Lake, Finn Creek, Monarch Creek and the confluence of Emerald River and the Kicking Horse River.
Entry was first restricted for 5 months final October, and Francois Masse, Parks Canada’s superintendent for Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay, says extending the restrictions one other yr will assist shield fish species together with a number of forms of trout and Kokanee.
Locke Marshall, the superintendent for Waterton Lakes Nationwide Park, says together with the ban on non-motorized watercraft from outdoors park boundaries, fishing for all species will not be permitted in flowing waters within the park, however might be allowed underneath present laws in park lakes.
