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As can be seen, stocking patterns target those lakes in the Kemptville district containing trout related species. For those of you unfamiliar with
splake, these fish are a hybrid trout resulting from crossing a male brook trout with a female lake trout. Ontario first introduced splake in the 1960s with the hope these fish would replace dwindling lake trout stocks. Even though splake hybrids are fertile fish, very few progeny are ever naturally produced by implanted splake populations. So lakes containing splake generally need to be restocked on a frequent basis. In contrast to the Kemptville
district, 334 different lakes in the Bancroft district have been stocked over the past five years. Similar to Kemptville, the preferred lakes being stocked continue to be those containing different species of trout. 330 lakes were stocked with approximately 416,000 brook trout, 17,000 brown trout, 122,000 lake trout, 345,000 rainbow trout and 254,000 splake. The remaining four lakes were stocked with close to 499,000 walleye. The surficial geology in these
two districts likely accounts for the variance in stocking patterns and numbers. The Bancroft area contains a few hundred lakes that are situated on ancient Precambrian shield that has been reshaped over at least two glacial periods producing deep cold water bodies that are conducive to the habitation of trout. On the other hand, the Kemptville
district is situated on a newly formed soft sedimentary rock foundation within the geographic confines of the former Champlain Sea. Unfortunately if you are a trout fisherman, the geography of the area is dominated by the Ottawa, Rideau and St. Lawrence rivers and glaciation has not been kind to the formation of deep water lakes.
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what role a community hatchery plays in this restocking process, in August I visited the North Hastings Community Fish Hatchery (NHCFH) east of Bancroft. The visit was organized by Mike Chester, Director of the Chandos Lake Property Owners Association. While there, we met with NHCFH President Ron Bowman, Plant Operations Manager Denis Brown and summer student Shannon Waltenbury who showed us the operation of the hatchery and
described the fish rearing process. NHCFH was founded in May
of 2006 when a crew of MNRF employees and community volunteers got together to conduct a study of seven local lakes that contain lake trout – Holland, Jamieson, St. Peter, L’Amable, Lavallee, McAuley and Purdy lakes. The trout in these lakes were examined to determine the genetic strain. That is, whether the fish were from large bodied or small bodied genetic origins.
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