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British Columbia: Kootenays -- Lakes (885 words) |
 | Kokanee Lake This hike-in lake may be accessed via the Kaslo and Joker Mill-Keen Creek roads or by the Kokanee Creek Road southwest of Balfour on Highway 3A. |
| This lake is renowned for its large rainbow and bull trout. |
| Staubert Lake The lake is northeast of the Galena Bay Ferry on Highway 31. |
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| Suspicions that something was wrong with Arrow Lakes itself, rather than the hatchery or some other problem, were fueled by the discovery that the survival of fry (baby fish) counted migrating out from the hatchery and again returning as adults was also declining precipitously (Figure 2, left). |
| Arrow Lakes is now being fertilized also in the hopes of stimulating the food chain and preserving the trophy rainbow and bull trout stocks for which the Arrow Lake is renowned. |
| The trend in Kootenay Lake kokanee numbers echoes dam construction, mysid introduction, fertilizer plant operations and lake fertilization, increasing in the1960s when the Kimberley fertilizer plant was fully operational, peaking in the early 1970s, dropping in the 1980s and declining steadily from 1986 to 1991. |
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