{"id":62241,"date":"2021-09-28T06:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=62241"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:40:20","slug":"fish-will-return-to-the-dillon-creek-wetland-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/fish-will-return-to-the-dillon-creek-wetland-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish will return to the Dillon Creek wetland restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It has been more than 130 years since the land was drained, but fish may soon return to what is now called the Dillon Creek wetland restoration on Cortes Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They won\u2019t be salmon, which cannot make it past the falls at Mansons Lagoon, but other species of fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofcortes.org\/species-at-risk\/coastal-cutthroat-trout\/\">coastal cutthroat trout<\/a>, which are a blue listed species at risk, and we also found sculpins,\u201d explained Project Manager Miranda Cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They won\u2019t be spawning, because the size of gravel needed for spawning is found in the stream channel, not the wetlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cross explained that the fish will probably use the wetlands as a nursery where they will have plenty to eat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She does not expect a lot of fish. The wetlands are not connected to Dillon Creek, but they will have access during flood conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt will be a nursery ground for fish and then when we see high waters and intense rain events, they\u2019ll be able to leave and reconnect back to the creek and the lake,\u201d Cross explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She has already seen cutthroat trout in Dillon Creek below the Cortes Bay culvert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe expect to see them, however, fish eat frogs eggs and little frogs, so it would be great to not have too many fish \u2014 so we can have successful amphibian breeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CKTZ story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than 130 years since the land was drained, but fish may soon return to what is now called the Dillon Creek wetland restoration on Cortes Island. They won\u2019t be salmon, which cannot make it past the falls at Mansons Lagoon, but other species of fish. \u201cThere are coastal cutthroat trout, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":62389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222],"tags":[314,9641,8519,9110],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62241"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=62241"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=62241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}