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bilitation project is one of
many the DFO is overseeing
this summer throughout the
province.

North Vancouver District
contributed $20,000 towards
the project, which will feature
a controlled intake pipeline
beginning at the William
Griffin skateboard park that
will divert water to a natural
side channel and pond area
currently under construction.

According to Jonsson, the
pond. area is critical to the
project: “That’s where your
high survival rates come in,
especially in the wintertime.”

The two main problems
for the creek’s fish popula-
. tions are a lack of spawning
-grounds and safe shelter from
winter floods.

“This project will address
both those concerns,” said
North Shore Streamkeepers’
Karen Munro.

_ The plan is that fish will
‘swim up Mosquito Creek to
the top of the skateboard
bowl, where the creck then

travels under a 400m culvert.
The fish will have no where
che to no.

“Then they'll have ra tura
around and come back to try
another route” Jonsson said.

The hope ts that the new
side channel will provide
another route for the spawn-
ing fish, which will work their
wav up the 40 nictres of new
creck toa gravel pond.

“As soon as we open this
up and turn on the water
there will be fish that find
their way in’ here” said
Jonsson, pointing toward a
flat arca being cleared by a
front-end loader.

“And when those fish
return in three years, they'll
start seeding the system so
there will be a resident popu-
lation in this area that will just
use (Mosquito Creek) as a
highway.”

Jonsson said this style of
stream rehabilitation has
come into its own in the last
1G years, and. many of the
concepts being employed are
new.

North Vancouver District's
chief naturalist Kevin Bell said
the municipality ‘is fully
behind the rehab project.

“North Shore Stream-

keepers approached us with
the propasal and once we
checked everything with our
parks people, and the DFO
approved it, we started the
project.” Bell said.

If all gees well with this
summer's Mesquite Creek
rehab, Bell said similar pro-
jects could be undertaken on
Hastings, MeKay, Maplewood
and MeCartney creeks.

“We have a situation in the
district where we have alot of
back channels that are backed
up” fron: flood control mea-
sures taken years ago, said
Bell.

Bell said the district will
provide signage and perhaps
an observation area bv the
new side channel.

Anumber of tree snags will
also be left near the pond so
that nest boxes can be
installed attract wood
ducks.

Fishermen should rake
note that no fishing 1s allowed
on Mosquito Creek (The only
North Shore rivers open for
fishing are the Capilano and
Seymour Rivers and Lynn
Creek). :

_fonsson said the Mosquito
Creck project should be com-
pleted by Labor Day. :

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