Wilsauceez wrote:
the paragraph bellow is from the 2011 COSEWIC Report on the Eligibility
The Aurora Trout is currently listed as Endangered under the federal Species at
Risk Act and Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, which both afford legal protection to
Aurora Trout and their habitats. Additional protection is provided by the federal Fisheries
Act, which provides habitat protection provisions for all fish species. Aurora Trout is
ranked as S1 (Ontario) and globally ranked as G5T1Q? (NatureServe) and Endangered
by the American Fisheries Society.
Has the Act changed??
I don't know exactly how the legislation works in this case, but aurora trout are hatchery raised and stocked into several lakes, to be fished recreationally every few years on a rotating basis. The lakes are closed to all fishing in the off-years. There are only two lakes to which aurora trout are native, and the natural population was destroyed by acid rain, fortunately with some specimens already having been collected for hatchery breeding. The original aurora trout lakes were eventually treated with lime and gradually re-stocked with the hatchery-born descendants of their original inhabitants. These two lakes, if I'm not mistaken, are permanently closed to all fishing.
All this to say that although I can't point you to the legal mechanism that makes this possible, this is a carefully managed put-grow-take system and no one here is poaching.