{"id":8359,"date":"2023-09-16T00:21:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2023-09-16T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:33:13","slug":"please-keep-an-eye-out-for-any-dead-eels-in-sandy-lake-area-15sep2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2023\/09\/16\/please-keep-an-eye-out-for-any-dead-eels-in-sandy-lake-area-15sep2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Please keep an eye out for possible dead eels in Sandy Lake and other lakes 15Sep2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
More about American Eel here<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a request from Chris Kennedy of the LakeWatchers<\/a> program sent to Karen Robinson of the Sandy Lake Conservation Association<\/a> who forwarded it to me.<\/p>\n

Says Karen R: “Chris Kennedy sent a request that we keep an eye out for possible dead eels in Sandy Lake and other lakes. He is finding them in the Shubenacadie water system as reported in the news, but wants to make sure it is not more widespread.\u00a0 I am alerting our park walkers to keep an eye out just in case.” <\/p>\n

More Info about the eels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marine scientist asks for help tracking dead eels found in Shubie canal, Dartmouth lakes<\/strong><\/a>
\nBY YVETTE D’ENTREMONT in the Halifax Examiner, Sep 15, 2023. Subscription required for access to full article. “After finding numerous dead eels floating in Dartmouth lakes, a marine scientist is asking for help tracking and logging them online. In recent weeks, Dr. Christine Ward-Paige began hearing reports of multiple dead American eels in the Shubie Canal. \u201cA few of my neighbours kept telling me that they saw a bunch of dead eels. And then last Friday, one of them said, \u2018Christine, I\u2019m going to take you,\u2019\u201d Ward-Paige said in an interview on the shoreline of Lake Banook near Paddlers Cove. \u201cShe drove me to Shubie Canal with the kids to show me where they had found a bunch of dead eels. She\u2019d said six or seven. As soon as we got down there, we counted 36 in a very short time.\u201d While onsite, Ward-Paige said many passersby told her they\u2019d seen many dead eels. She was told \u201cthey\u2019re everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is arsenic killing eels in Dartmouth lakes?<\/strong><\/a>
\nTim Bousquet in the Halifax Examiner Morning File Sep 15, 2023\/ \u201cAfter finding numerous dead eels floating in Dartmouth lakes, a marine scientist is asking for help tracking and logging them online,\u201d reports Yvette d\u2019Entremont: In recent weeks, Dr. Christine Ward-Paige began hearing reports of multiple dead American eels in the Shubie Canal. It didn\u2019t take long to discover that dead eels weren\u2019t just showing up along the Shubie Canal. They were found elsewhere too, including in lakes Banook, Fletchers, Miller, MicMac, and Charles. Ward-Paige also learned that people had been seeing the dead eels since mid-August. During a trip to Lake Banook on Tuesday night, she found another 36 dead eels. Click here<\/a> to read \u201cMarine scientist asks for help tracking dead eels found in Shubie canal, Dartmouth lakes.\u201d Ward-Paige thinks the eels might be dying off due to blue-green algae related to recent mowing of seagrass in Lake Banook, but the lake\u2019s been mowed before and there wasn\u2019t a similar die-off. Hey, Ward-Paige is the scientist, and DFO is investigating, so hopefully we\u2019ll get an answer soon. But I\u2019ll throw out another possibility: arsenic….In August, during one of the heavy summer rainfalls, I went and hiked around the abandoned Montague gold mine to see the state of the toxic tailings. It wasn\u2019t pretty..”<\/p>\n

DFO investigating after almost 100 dead eels found floating in Dartmouth lakes
\nHeidi Petracek, CTV Atlantic News, Sep 15, 2023. “Marine biologist Christine Ward-Paige is on a mission to find out why dozens of dead American eels are now floating in several Dartmouth lakes…Ward-Paige is helping collect information on sightings of dead eels using an app she herself created several years ago. eOceans<\/a> allows citizen scientists around the world to upload data and report sightings. The app geotags the information and can organize it in specific ways, a unique and easily-accessible way to crowdsource information. \u201cAnd then, we pass (that data) off to local experts and species experts, so that they can do their job, with the knowledge that they have,\u201d she explains.She encourages residents will use the eOceans app to record any further sightings of dead eels in the hopes of collecting data the DFO could potential use to try to determine the cause.”<\/p>\n

About the LakeWatchers Program<\/strong>
\n– Update on LakeWatchers – Presentation – October 13, 2022 <\/a><\/strong>
\nOn halifax.ca<\/p>\n

LakeWatchers<\/a><\/strong>
\nOn halifax.ca, Jul 26, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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