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GROUP
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COMMON
NAME |
SCIENTIFIC
NAME |
WATER,
LAND AND
AIR PROTECTION
REGION |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
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Game
Fish: |
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Whitefish |
Dragon
Lake whitefish (2) |
Coregonus sp. |
- |
- |
- |
- |
E |
- |
- |
- |
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Nongame
Fish: |
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Sticklebacks |
Threespine
stickleback pairs: |
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Hadley
Lake (2) |
Gasterosteus
spp. |
E |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Total number of
extinct species is 4.
Two distinct forms
of whitefish in Dragon Lake (Quesnel River system) went
extinct when the lake was treated with toxaphene (in
1960) to improve a sports fishery. These fish displayed
unusual characteristics, which were not discovered until
after the lake was poisoned to remove resident native
species. Since 1992 Fisheries Program policies require
a higher level of inventory to prevent this type of accident.
Two red-listed
stickleback species, native to Hadley Lake on Lasqueti
Island, were unable to survive the unlawful introduction
of an exotic predator. Please
don’t move live fish or other aquatic organisms from
one water body to another.
