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Volume 19, No. 2 Spring 2013 Loved in eastern Canada, loathed in the Rockies:The Two Sides ofBrook Troutby Lesley Peterson, TUC Project BiologistGauging the spread of Brook Trout in Alberta. Brian Meagher Community Management is one of the four themes identified under TUC s National Conservation Agenda that guides our day to day conservation work. The key policy of this theme is to protect and restore existing native coldwater fish species and their communities. A major threat to na-tive Trout populations in some ecosystems is in-vasion by non-native fish species. Historically, non-native fish have been stocked into waters throughout Canada to increase angling oppor-tunities, by accident, through dumping bait buckets, or for various other reasons that may have, Seemed like a good idea at the time. Re-cently, TUC has witnessed an increase of inva-sive species expanding their range in part due to climate change or transferring from one wa-ter system to another.
Trout Unlimited Canada’s National Newsletter 3 OF BROOK TROUT by Lesley Peterson cluding habitat loss, competition from invasive spe-cies, and degraded water quality issues.
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