Mike Sullivan, provincial fisheries science specialist for ESRD, discusses the significance and health of Alberta’s River and Stream Fisheries. He talks about his past growing up in the North Saskatchewan River watershed, and his interest in hiking, camping and canoeing, as well as ecosystem health and pollution problem areas - often making comparisons to Montana. Some of the specific problems he addresses are: the raw sewage dumping and fish with tumors in Battle River in 2009, and that forty two percent of White Suckers had lesions in Beaver River in 2010.
Stephen Spencer, area fisheries biologist for AESRD, briefly talks about the impacts of high levels of phosphorus and the importance of balancing the “nutrient budget”. This presentation was a part of the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance’s Educational Forum in September of 2014.
