Quinte Fishing

I know this has been mentioned on the board already, but here is a recent news report from last week http://www.intelligencer.ca/2014/05/21/ ... -dead-fish

All of the reports are only mentioning the sheepshead but I have been seeing silver bass and even those red fin Suckers washing up as well.

I read somewhere that Russia had workers drilling holes on frozen lakes this year to help get some oxygen to lakes that were dealing with more ice than normal....wonder if the ice pack caused some low oxygen levels and brought upon a kill off?

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Alberta+ ... story.html

This story in the Edmonton Journal explains it better. Ice pack is part of the equation but it has it also has to do with phosphates and algae using up the available oxygen when the sun can't get through the ice pack as detailed below....

“As more nutrients, typically phosphates from land clearing, agriculture, cows and towns, flow into the lake, it basically fertilizes the growth of algae blooms that create oxygen in the daylight and use oxygen at night — and winter is one long night,” Sullivan said.

“With the cover of ice, light doesn’t get through to the water, the algae uses up the oxygen and the oxygen levels decline throughout so the only oxygen left is near holes of open water where there’s a little bit of oxygen exchange with the open air so the fish cluster around there,” he said.


This is all notwithstanding the current VHS investigation which could be the actual cause of the kill off....

The TV station in Kingston did a feature last night and said that 100 fish had been sent to Guelph for analysis - seemedthe fish kill was similar to several years ago.

Details will follow from TV and MNR ( we hope)

David aka Superdad