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—Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Bruce Cockburn

New Substack Post

Wabamun Lake, a Fisheries in Crisis

[Note: This piece is an update to a series of articles I’ve written about the Wabamun Lake fishery over the years and posted to my blog.]

As in 2020, it appears that few new walleye are being recruited to the mature population that has one dominant age class. This suggests that little spawning is happening (the little happening likely caused by some of the mature fish stocked in 2010-2014) and/or the abundant larger walleye (stocked in 2012) are heavily preying upon the small walleye as well as young pike, perch and whitefish.

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As a wildlife biologist, I have worked in the Canadian High Arctic, the boreal forest of northern Alberta and the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Over the course of my work, I came to realize that in the long term good wildlife management was dependent on a concerned and informed public. The problem was that many biologists and wildlife managers were not communicating well with the people upon whom they depend to support their work. I decided to develop myself as a writer and learn effective communication techniques to explain the value and management of our natural resources to the people who make the ultimate, long-term decisions.

My passion and long career with wildlife and the outdoors has allowed me to write and present on the importance of wildlife and wild places and their impact on the well being of individuals and society as a whole.