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Originally posted by mrbrown
hi i can understand being upset about the garbage but dead fish. seriosly they are salmon they go upstream spawn out and die hence dead fish along the river. If they were cleaned up then some animals that depend on this as food would go hungry. Dead fish is part of the life cycle
Unfortunately many of the fish are left on the banks by "guys with fishing poles" who see that they are males and don't care or worse yet, females slit for roe and left to rot. Others are dragged around and left in the parking lot to become a stinking mass for maggots to feed on. Dead fish is part of the cycle but it is uncommon to find a naturally age rotted salmon that has completed it's job and died of natural causes below the 407. That's why the sanctuary system is used on alot of Lake O tribs. The strong and fast survive to make it through the gauntlet of anglers, snaggers, netters and spear pushers to do what nature intended and die of old age.
A note to anyone thinking of going up, hope you have a strong stomach or bad head cold if you go. I was there last night and can still smell the rot of Petro Park.
Stick
"Rivers are living things, sometimes swollen and discoloured, other times thin and anaemic. Spend enough time around a particular river, you learn to read its moods, like a spouse reads a partner."
Gord Ellis ONTARIO OUT OF DOORS