A Review of the Status and Harvests Of Fish Stocks …A Review of the Status and Harvests Of Fish Stocks in the Sahtu Dene and Metis Settlement Area, Including Great Bear Lake D.B

A Review of the Status and Harvests Of Fish Stocks in the Sahtu Dene and Metis Settlement Area, Including Great Bear Lake

D.B. Stewart

Central and Arctic RegionDepartment of Fisheries and OceansWinnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N6

1996

Canadian Manuscript Report ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2337

Fisheries and Oceans Pêches et OcéansCanada Canada

Canadian Manuscript Report of

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2337

1996

A REVIEW OF THE STATUS AND HARVESTS OF

FISH STOCKS IN THE SAHTU DENE AND METIS SETTLEMENT AREA,

INCLUDING GREAT BEAR LAKE

by

D.B. Stewart1

Central and Arctic Region

Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N6

This is the 40th Manuscript Report

from the Central and Arctic Region, Winnipeg

1 Arctic Biological Consultants, Box 68, St. Norbert Postal Station, 95 Turnbull Drive,

Winnipeg, MB, R3V 1L5.

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PREFACE

This report was prepared under contract for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Central and ArcticRegion, 501 University Crescent, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N6. The Scientific Authority for this contract wasRobert W. Moshenko of the Resource Management Division.

© Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1996

Cat. no. Fs 97-4/2337E ISSN 0706-6473

Correct citation for this report is:

Stewart, D.B. 1996. A review of the status and harvests of fish stocks in the Sahtu Dene and Metis SettlementArea, including Great Bear Lake. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2337: iv + 64 p.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABSTRACT/RÉSUMÉ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ivINTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Fish harvests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sahtu except Great Bear Lake Basin . . . . . . . 2 Great Bear Lake Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Sport fishing lodges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Fisheries research licences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5DISCUSSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Migratory fish stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Great Bear Lake sport fishery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . 15

LIST OF FIGURES

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1 Map of the Sahtu Dene and MetisSettlement Area showing major riverdrainage basins and communities . . . . 17

2 Key to the names of selected MackenzieRiver tributaries in the Sahtu Dene andMetis Settlement Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3 Sport fishing lodges and outposts on GreatBear Lake, and the management areasused by DFO for the lake trout sportfishery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4 Areas of Great Bear Lake fished by guestsof the sport lodges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

LIST OF TABLES

Table Page

1 Harvests of fishes from the Sahtu Deneand Metis Settlement area, except GreatBear Lake drainage basin, by communityand waterbody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2 Harvests of fishes from Great Bear Lake,NWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

3 Harvests of fishes from tributaries of GreatBear Lake, NWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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4 A summary of harvest and creel censusdata for sport fishing lodges on Great BearLake, NWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

5 Licences to take fish from the Sahtu Deneand Metis Settlement Area for scientificpurposes issued by the Department ofFisheries and Oceans (DFO), Central andArctic Region, to DFO (1990-94) and non-DFO (1985-94) researchers . . . . . . . . . 59

LIST OF APPENDICES

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1 Fish species reported from the MackenzieRiver drainage basin within the SahtuDene and Metis Settlement Area . . . . . 60

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ABSTRACT

Stewart, D.B. 1996. A review of the status andharvests of fish stocks in the Sahtu Deneand Metis Settlement Area, including GreatBear Lake. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish.Aquat. Sci. 2337: iv + 64 p.

This document was prepared to assist theDepartment of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and theSahtu Renewable Resources Board to co-managefisheries in the Sahtu Dene and Metis SettlementArea. It reviews information on stocks of fishes thatare harvested for subsistence, commerce and sportin the Settlement Area, including Great Bear Lake.The information is current to February 1995. It issummarized in tables that are organizedhierarchically by community, waterbody, and thenspecies. Fisheries and stocks in the Great BearLake drainage basin are treated separately andorganized alphabetically by geographical name andthen species. Recent recommendations by DFOconcerning management of the fisheries or stocksare summarized, with a list of pertinent references.Information is also provided on sport fishing lodgesoperating on Great Bear Lake, and on ScientificLicences issued by DFO since 1985 for research inthe Settlement Area.

Key words: Arctic zone; Mackenzie River;Northwest Territories; fishery management;subsistence fishing; commercial fishing;sport fishing; catch statistics.

RÉSUMÉ

Stewart, D.B. 1996. A review of the status andharvests of fish stocks in the Sahtu Deneand Metis Settlement Area, including GreatBear Lake. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish.Aquat. Sci. 2337: iv + 64 p.

Ce document a pour objet d'aider leministère des Pêches et des Océans (MPO) et leConseil des ressources renouvelables des Sahtu àgérer conjointement la pêche dans la région viséepar l'entente conclue avec les Métis et les Dénés duSahtu. Il contient des renseignements sur l'état desstocks de poissons capturés à des fins sportives,commerciales et de subsistance, dans cette région,qui comprend le Grand Lac de l'Ours. Ces donéessont valides jusqu'en février 1995. Au moyen detableaux, on en fait la synthèse de manièrehiérarchique, selon la localité, le cours d'eau, puisl'espèce visée. On a abordé la question de la pêche

et des stocks de poisson du bassin hydrographiquedu Grand Lac de l'Ours de manière distincte; lesrenseignements pertinents ont éte présentés enordre alphabétique selon le nom géographique, puisl'espèce visée. De plus, on présente un résumé desdernières recommandations du MPO concernant lagestion de la pêche et des stocks, accompagnéd'une liste de références. Le document comprendégalement des renseignements sur les camps depêche sportive et sur les permis délivrés par le MPOà des fins scientifiques pour la région visée parl'entente, et ce, depuis 1985.

Mots clés: Arctique; fleuve Mackenzie; delta duMackenzie; Territoires du Nord-Ouest;gestion de la pêche; pêche de subsistance;pêche commerciale; pêche sportive;statistiques sur les prises.

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INTRODUCTION

One of the provisions of the Sahtu Dene andMetis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement whichwas approved by Order in Council on 23 June 1994,was the establishment of a Renewable ResourcesBoard (hereafter Board). This seven member board,with equal representation of the Sahtu Tribal Counciland Government, plus a chairperson, was appointedin November 1995. It is charged with making alldecisions about wildlife management in the SahtuDene and Metis Settlement Area (Settlement Area)(Fig. 1), including those on many matters formerlycontrolled by the federal Department of Fisheriesand Oceans (DFO), the Canadian Wildlife Service,and the territorial Department of RenewableResources. These decisions remain subject toreview by the appropriate Minister of theGovernment of Canada or Minister of theGovernment of the Northwest Territories.

The purpose of this work is to provide theBoard and DFO with a summary of the presentstatus of fish stocks harvested in the SettlementArea (Fig. 1). These stocks are harvested forsubsistence, commerce and sport, mostly by SahtuDene and Metis beneficiaries of the land claimagreement and by visiting sport fishermen. Inrecognition of its unique management requirementsand importance as a sport fishery, this report treatsthe Great Bear Lake drainage basin separately fromthe rest of the Settlement Area.

The published and unpublished sources ofinformation in this summary were identified bysearches of bibliographic databases and publishedbibliographies, and by discussions with peopleknowledgeable of fisheries resources in the region.The bibliographic databases searched were theAquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA),Arctic Science and Technology Information System(ASTIS), and the Department of Fisheries andOceans library database, WAVES. DFO files werealso searched for unpublished information.

FORMAT

The summary is presented in tabular form,with the fishery data organized hierarchically first bycommunity and then by waterbody and taxa. Theobjective of this is to enable the Board and DFO toquickly review the data on a community or speciesbasis. Data from the Great Bear Lake drainagebasin are treated separately, with the fishery and

stock data organized alphabetically by geographicalname and then taxa.

These tables summarize information fromstudies directed towards the assessment andmanagement of commercial and sport fisheries.They do not summarize other scientific researchdirected towards a more general understanding ofthe aquatic environment. To bridge this gap, brieflists of general aquatic studies are provided, below,for the Settlement Area and Great Bear Lake basin.Resource maps in the Northern Land UseInformation Series (NLUIS), which were producedbetween 1974 and 1976 by the Lands Directorate ofthe Department of Fisheries and Environment, arealso useful general references. They are referred toin text by number (e.g. NLUIS 96M) and areavailable from the Surveys and Mapping Branch ofthe Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources inOttawa.

FISH HARVESTS (TABLES 1 to 3)

Each fishing location is identified by itsproper geographical name (Canada 1980; NLUIS),and a latitude and longitude. In some cases, a localname or geographical feature is also included inbrackets. The map coordinates were taken fromSchedule V of the Northwest Territories FisheryRegulations, from the source of the data, ordetermined from 1:250,000 scale topographicalmaps.

The quota and harvest years are the sameas the federal government fiscal year (e.g. the 1995quota extends from 1 April 1995 to 31 March 1996).They are not the normal calendar years.

Unless otherwise indicated, the harveststatistics are for commercial fisheries and inkilograms round weight. A round weight is for awhole fish, while a dressed weight is for a fish withthe viscera and gills removed. It was not alwayspossible to separate the harvests by species formixed species fisheries, or to determine how thedata were collected. In some instances thecommercial harvest data are from export or localsales records, in others from survey questionnaires.The former tend to be conservative as they do notestimate culls and personal use. The latter areprone to survey biases that can lead to over or underestimates of the harvests, and to double counting offish harvested for sale or subsistence. In most yearsthese data are incomplete as not all active fishermenreported their harvests (L. Anderson, pers. comm.).

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Likewise, species may not always be correctlyidentified, particularly the whitefishes and ciscos. Care, then, must be taken when interpreting thesedata.

Sahtu except Great Bear Lake basin

Information on the harvests of freshwaterfishes from waterbodies in the Settlement Area,excluding the Great Bear Lake drainage basin, issummarized in Table 1. The communities, in theorder they are discussed are: Colville Lake, Déline(formerly Fort Franklin), Fort Good Hope, FortNorman, and Norman Wells. Waterbodies fished bytheir residents, or in the vicinity, are listedalphabetically for each community. Where severalspecies are harvested at a waterbody, they are listedalphabetically by common name. The Latinscientific name for each species is given in Appendix2. Waterbodies in the Coppermine, Hornaday, andNahanni river drainage basins that could not beassigned to a particular community are discussedfollowing the community summaries.

Where a waterbody is fished by more thanone community, cross references have beenincluded to avoid repetition. Cross references towaterbodies within the same community section areindicated by "see above" or "see below"; those towaterbodies within another community section areindicated by the community name and waterbody(e.g. see COLVILLE LAKE--Anderson River).

Included in Table 1 are those waterbodiesthat have a record of commercial, subsistence orsport harvest, or are listed in Schedule V of theNorthwest Territories Fishery Regulations. Therehave been few commercial fisheries for export salein the Settlement Area, so few of its waterbodieshave a record of harvest or stock assessment. Thisis in marked contrast to the Nunavut SettlementArea, where many stocks of anadromous Arcticcharr have been harvested for commercial exportsince the 1950's, and for which there are detailedharvest records and ongoing stock assessments(Stewart 1994). However, many of the waterbodiesfor which no harvest data were found do play a vitalrole in the regional fisheries. They provide criticalspawning and nursery habitats for fishes, andsupport important subsistence and sport harvests.Studies to predict the potential impacts of pipelineand highway developments have documented theimportance of a number of these waterbodies.Where such information exists, the waterbody has

been included together with a brief summary of thestudy results.

For each waterbody with harvest data, thetable identifies the species harvested and providesthe harvest quota(s), the most recent harvest data,a summary of stock status if available, and a list ofpertinent references. Species are treated separatelyif they have separate quotas. For each waterbodywithout harvest data, the table summarizes andreferences the results of pertinent fisheries research.The number of species reported by these studiesprecludes listing them individually for eachwaterbody. Species reported by the studiesexamined are listed in Appendix 1 for selectedwaterbodies. This listing is intended to support thecomments in Tables 1 to 3. It is not the result of anexhaustive review of the literature on species'occurrences.

All site specific harvest data located duringthis work for the Settlement Area, except Great BearLake basin, are summarized in Table 1. Non-sitespecific community harvest data have also beenincluded, where available, for comparison. Treble(1996) has summarized the pre-1990 communityharvest data in detail for subsistence andcommercial fisheries of the lower Mackenzie River.

The harvest quotas are derived by variousmethods, and some more closely reflect the stockstatus than others. The quotas of active commercialand sport fisheries are reassessed annually by DFO.If information from the harvesters or from samplingsuggests that the fishery is not sustainable then thequota is adjusted downward. If that informationsuggests under-utilization then it may be adjustedupward, in the case of a commercial fishery, or bekept as is to improve the quality of the fishery, in thecase of a trophy sport fishery. The experimentalquotas, in square brackets, are interim quotasassigned for the purpose of obtaining samples froma fishery. In the past, experimental fisheries wereknown as exploratory or test fisheries. Abbreviationsare used to indicate years when a harvest may havetaken place but that no data are available "(NA)",and when a waterbody was opened for fishing byVariation Order but not fished "(NF)".

The general comments column of the tablesprovides a brief summary of the informationavailable for each waterbody. It tells whether thereis an established or experimental fishery, active orinactive or in conflict with other fisheries; when it waslast sampled for or by DFO; what is known of thestock status; whether spawning or nursery habitats

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have been identified in the system; and recentrecommendations by DFO concerning managementof the fishery. Comments on habitat use andsubsistence harvests are summaries of site-specificaquatic resource assessment research. Referencematerial pertinent to each fishery is listed in bracketsand cited in full in the bibliography.

General information for communities isdiscussed under community headings (e.g. ColvilleLake general area), whereas site-specific harvestdata are discussed under the appropriate waterbodyor Mackenzie Delta management area. Thecommunity data are of limited use to fisherymanagers since the location of the harvest isunknown. Nevertheless, representative, recentcommunity harvest data have been included forcomparison.

There are few data available on subsistenceharvests in the Settlement Area. Indeed, many ofthose described here were documented in the late1960's to mid-1970's, and their present status andextent have not been documented. Descriptions ofthe subsistence fisheries can be found in Wynne-Edwards 1947; Bissett 1972; Villiers 1968; LutraAssociates Ltd. 1989; and Rawson Academy ofAquatic Sciences 1990. DFO recently completed asurvey of Sahtu communities for information onsubsistence fisheries (Taptuna and Low 1995). Itwas designed to gather information on usagepatterns, the importance of various fish species,fishing locations, and the type of fishing gear used--not to estimate harvests. Within a year of itsestablishment, the Board will initiate a 5 year harveststudy to provide information on harvesting necessaryfor the effective management of fish in theSettlement Area.

Sport fishing limits are listed in the annualSports Fishing Guide for the Northwest Territories.These limits are generally lower for Great Bear Lake,which is managed as a trophy fishery, than they arefor other parts of the Settlement Area. Speciallimitations on sport fishing in the Great Bear LakeSpecial Management Area are described below, inthe discussion section.

A more general understanding of the aquaticenvironment of Settlement Area, outside the GreatBear Lake drainage basin, can be gained from the:

aquatic resource assessments of: Shotton 1971,1973; Hatfield et al. 1972; Brunskill et al. 1973 a+b;Dryden et al. 1973; Stein et al. 1973; Jessop et al.1974; McCart et al. 1974; Schultz International Ltd.

1974; Slaney and Co. 1974; Jessop and Lilley 1975;Sutherland and Gohlke 1978; McCart 1982;

species accounts of: McPhail and Lindsey 1970;Reist and Bond 1988; Reist and Chang-Kue 1996;and,

reviews of: Doran 1974; Brunskill 1986; McCart1986; Rosenberg 1986; and Bodaly et al. 1989.

Great Bear Lake basin

Information on the harvests of freshwaterfishes in the Great Bear Lake drainage basin issummarized for Great Bear Lake (Table 2), and forits tributaries (Table 3). Within each of these tables,the information is organized alphabetically by fisherylocation and then by species. Nearly all of theseharvests were by residents of Déline (formerly FortFranklin), or visiting sport fishermen.

In Table 2, the primary fishery locations arethe six management areas that DFO has used tomanage the trophy lake trout fishery (Fig. 3)(Roberge and Dunn 1988). Each of these areas hasa distinct fishery that relies on local stocks of laketrout--the central area of the lake was not discussedsince no fishery data were found. Fisheries includedin Table 2, have a record of either subsistence,experimental, or sport harvest--with two exceptions.A number of experimental fisheries are listed in thesummary tables without their ever having beenfished. They are included to highlight areas wherethere may be an ongoing interest in the commercialharvest of fishes. Where the location and harvest ofexperimental scientific fisheries could be identified,that information was also included due to the paucityof data available for Great Bear Lake.

Fisheries included in Table 3, have a recordof either subsistence or sport harvest, or are listed inSchedule V of the Northwest Territories FisheryRegulations--with two exceptions. A number ofexperimental scientific fisheries were included todirect readers to some of the only publishedfisheries information for the tributaries of Great BearLake. Likewise, a number of subsistence fisheriesfor which harvest data are not available wereincluded since these are areas where there isongoing interest in the harvest of fishes.

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For each fishery, the tables identify thespecies harvested and provide the harvest quota(s),the most recent harvest data, a summary of stockstatus, and a list of pertinent references. Speciesare treated separately if they have separate quotas.

Few fisheries in the Great Bear Lakedrainage basin have harvest quotas. Whitefish Lake(Table 3) is the only area that has been assigned acommercial harvest quota, and that fishery isapparently inactive. The experimental quotas, insquare brackets, are interim quotas assigned for thepurpose of obtaining samples from a fishery. Basedon trends in harvest and biological data, DFO hasrecommended "total allowable harvests" (TAH) forthe sport fisheries for lake trout in each arm of GreatBear Lake. The quotas of active commercialfisheries and recommended TAH of active sportfisheries are reassessed annually by DFO. Ifinformation from the harvesters or from samplingsuggests that the fishery is not sustainable then thequota or recommended TAH is adjusted downward.If that information suggests under-utilization then itmay be adjusted upward. Abbreviations were usedto indicate years when a harvest may have takenplace but that no data are available "(NA)", andwhen a body of water was opened for fishing byVariation Order but not fished "(NF)".

The general comments column of the tablesprovides a brief summary of the informationavailable for each fishery. It tells whether a fisheryis established or experimental, active or inactive, orin conflict with other fisheries; when it was lastsampled for or by DFO; what is known of the stockstatus; and recent recommendations by DFOconcerning management of the fishery. Thediscussions of stock status, and any managementrecommendations, are based on assessments of theArctic Fisheries Science Advisory Committee(Clarke et al. 1989) and discussions with fisherymanagers. Reference material pertinent to eachfishery is listed in brackets and cited in full in thebibliography.

There are few data available on subsistenceharvests in the Great Bear Lake drainage basin.Indeed, many of those described here weredocumented in the 1960's and early 1970's, andtheir present status and extent have not beendocumented. Descriptions of these fisheries can befound in Osgood (1932), Villiers (1967), Bissett(1972), Morris (1972), Rushforth (1976), Hall (1978),Great Bear Lake Working Group (1985), LutraAssociates Ltd. (1988), Rawson Academy of AquaticSciences (1990), and Taptuna and Low (1995).

The Great Bear Lake Working Group (1985),which consisted of aboriginal and governmentmembers, prepared a thoughtful examination of themanagement issues facing in the Great Bear Lakefishery. They recommended a number ofmanagement goals and a strategy and process forconsideration in the development of a long-termfishery management program for the lake.Yaremchuk (1986) summarized the results of a nineyear study by DFO of the sport fishing exploitation oflake trout on Great Bear Lake. He also describedthe nature of the resource and management options.

A more general understanding of the aquaticenvironment of Great Bear Lake and its tributaries,can be gained from the:

aquatic resource surveys of: Wong and Whillans1973; Stewart and MacDonald 1978; Sutherland andGohlke 1978; and Chang-Kue and Cameron 1980;

limnological studies of Great Bear Lake by:Miller 1947; Johnson 1975b+c; and Moore 1980,1981; and

species accounts of: Miller 1946; Miller andKennedy 1948a+b; Kennedy 1949, 1953; Healey1975, 1978; Johnson 1973, 1975c, 1976; and Martinand Olver 1980.

SPORT FISHING LODGES (TABLE 4)

Table 4 summarizes information on the sportfishing lodges of Great Bear Lake (Fig. 3). Outfittersoperating from communities or with moveablecamps are not included in this summary, as thisinformation is not readily available. The lodges arelisted alphabetically. In a general comment for eachlodge are listed its latitude and longitude, operatingseason, guest bed capacity, targeted fish species,outpost camp locations, recent operating history,participation in fishery management studies, andpertinent references. Beneath this comment the fishspecies harvested are listed alphabetically. Harvestdata for each species are listed by year. Theyinclude an estimate of the number of fish killed bythe sport fishery, the average number of fish caughtper angler hour, and an estimate of the total numberof angler days. The sources of these data aredescribed and referenced in a comments section.

Sport fishing lodges also operate on ColvilleLake and Wrigley Lake. Neither of these operationshas been monitored for harvest data in the mannerof the lodges on Great Bear Lake. Their operations

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are described briefly in Table 1 (see COLVILLELAKE--Colville lake; FORT NORMAN--WrigleyLake).

FISHERIES RESEARCH LICENCES (TABLE 5)

Table 5 summarizes information on theScientific Licences that DFO has issued to itspersonnel or to non-DFO personnel since 1985, forwork in the Settlement Area (J.T. Strong, pers.comm.). These licences permit them to take fish forscientific purposes. This information is organizedalphabetically by licence holder. The area where theresearch was to take place, its purpose, and theyear for which the licence was issued are shown foreach licence holder. The years refer to the federalgovernment fiscal year (see above). The outcomeof the research is not discussed, but documentslocated are referenced.

In 1994, DFO began to distinguish betweenstudies that take fish for scientific, educational, andpublic display purposes (J.T. Strong, pers. comm.)Since then, separate licences have been issued foreach type of study, and studies that do not take fish(e.g. behavioural observations) no longer require aScientific Licence. These licences are now issuedunder Section 52 of the Fishery (General)Regulations.

DISCUSSION

In addition to the management concernstypical of northern, inland freshwater systems,fishery managers in the Settlement Area face twoimportant and fundamentally different managementproblems: 1) the migratory fish stocks in theMackenzie River basin, and 2) the trophy lake troutfishery on Great Bear Lake.

MIGRATORY FISH STOCKS

A number of the fish species harvested inthe Sahtu Dene and Metis Settlement Area migratelong distances on a seasonal basis each year.These movements have important ramifications forthe interpretation of Table 1 and for fisherymanagement in the Settlement Area. Long distancemigrants such as Arctic cisco, broad whitefish, andinconnu may be vulnerable to harvest by Inuvialuit,Gwich'in, Sahtu, and Deh Cho fisheries. Thesefishes are predictably available to harvesters on a

seasonal basis at known locations. Some of them,perhaps all, also have discrete spawning stocks.Consequently, fishermen at a given location andseason may be harvesting fish from a number ofdifferent stocks.

In terms of Table 1, this means that theharvest data for fisheries in the Mackenzie River andits larger tributaries do not relate to a single localpopulation. Rather, they relate to a number ofspawning stocks which may be distant from theharvest site. Fisheries in the lower reaches of theMackenzie Basin, then, directly affect those in theupper reaches, and vice versa. This is also true, butto a lesser extent, for species that undertake shorterseasonal migrations such as Arctic grayling,longnose sucker, and walleye. This makes it verydifficult for fishery managers to determine the levelof harvest that can be sustained at a particularlocation by a particular species, and to estimate theharvest pressure on a given fish stock. It alsomakes it increasingly important that managersunderstand stock dynamics and estimate stock size(Tallman 1996).

The complexities of identifying the individualstocks, estimating stock size, and determining theextent to which each is harvested by the variousfisheries makes management of this resource in theMackenzie basin extremely difficult. It emphasizesthe need for close cooperation between resourcemanagement boards in the Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, andSahtu settlement areas.

DFO and others have undertaken a numberof genetic studies of fishes in the Sahtu Dene andMetis Settlement Area for the purpose of stockidentification. Bickham et al. (1989), Lockwood andBickham (1989), Morales et al. (1989), Troy (1989),and Dillinger et al. (1992) have studied the geneticsof migratory Arctic cisco in the Carcajou andMountain rivers; and Reist (1990, 1996a) broadwhitefish from The Upper Ramparts area of theMackenzie River, and various species at otherlocations (Reist 1987).

Movements of migratory coregonids, Arcticgrayling, burbot, longnose sucker, northern pike,walleye, and other fish species have been studied inthe Mackenzie Basin using mark-recapture taggingexperiments (e.g. Hatfield et al. 1972; Stein et al.1973; Jessop et al. 1974; Jessop and Lilley 1975;Babaluk et al. 1996). Radio tags have also beenused to follow the seasonal movemements of broadand lake whitefish in the Mackenzie delta and basin(Chang-Kue and Jessop 1983, 1992, 1996).

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Inconnu tagged near Tsiigehtchic, for example, havebeen captured a year later 1,104 km upstream in theLiard River (Jessop and Lilley 1975), and broadwhitefish tagged at Kukjuktuk Creek on theTuktoyaktuk Peninsula have been recaptured at TheUpper Ramparts upstream from Fort Good Hope(Chang-Kue and Jessop 1992).

Radio telemetry, sonar, and fishingtechniques have also been used together to locatespawning areas for broad whitefish in the MackenzieRiver, at The Upper Ramparts and variousdownstream locations (Chang-Kue and Jessop1996).

At present, broad whitefish present perhapsthe most important stock management problems inthe Sahtu Dene and Metis Settlement Area, outsidethe Great Bear Lake basin (Tallman and Reist1996a; Reist 1996b). They migrate between theInuvialuit, Gwich'in, and Sahtu settlement areaswhere they are an important part of the subsistenceharvests. Because of their anadromous lifestyle themigrants are relatively free of the parasiteTriaenophorus crassus, which infects whitefish andlowers their commercial value (Dick 1996).

Their predictable availability in largenumbers and relatively parasite-free flesh, has madebroad whitefish a target for many economicdevelopment initiatives over the past 30 years.None of these has proven to be economically viable(Stewart et al. 1993; Anderson 1995). The mostrecent of these, an experimental fishery by theUummarmiut Development Corporation in theInuvialuit Settlement Area, began in 1989 andoperated through 1993 (Treble and Dahlke 1994;Treble and Tallman 1996; G. Fricke pers. comm.).This fishery and its future development is ofparticular importance to the management of broadwhitefish stocks in the Sahtu Dene and MetisSettlement Area, since it is likely to be targetingmany of the same stocks that support thesubsistence harvest.

Recent work by DFO under the InuvialuitFinal Agreement (Tallman and Reist 1996b) hassignificantly improved the understanding of thesestocks by fishery managers; however, the scale andcomplexity of the problem is such that it will requiremany years of research before the stocks dynamicsare clearly understood.

A revisiting of data from the aquatic resourceassessments conducted for the Mackenzie Valleypipeline and Dempster Highway, directed toward

fishery management should be considered. Awealth of information was collected by these large-scale studies, much of which has never beenanalysed or presented in detail. Such a review mightprovide data useful for the management of broadwhitefish and other fishes in the Mackenzie Riverdrainage of the Settlement Area.

GREAT BEAR LAKE SPORT FISHERY

Since Yaremchuck (1986) summarizedinformation on the Great Bear Lake sport fishery,there have been a number of changes in itsoperation. In the past, relocation, bankruptcy, andchanges in ownership have periodically led totemporary closure of a lodge for a year or so. Atpresent, the Arctic Circle, Branson's, and Great BearLake lodges are all temporarily closed (C. Plummer,pers. comm.). Only Plummer's Great Bear LakeLodge and Trophy Lodge have operated on a regularbasis since 1990.

In addition to their own lodge, the Plummersnow manage the Arctic Circle, Great Bear Lake, andTrophy lodges (C. Plummer, pers. comm.). Theyown these lodges jointly with the Metis DevelopmentCorporation, which is the majority shareholder,under 902848 NWT Ltd.. Negotiations are underwayto amalgamate with Branson's Lodge which is nowowned by the community of Déline. When that iscompleted, Plummers will manage all of the lodgeson the lake and be part owner of the other fourlodges. They plan to extend their policy of catch andrelease for large lake trout, and to implement arotational fishery whereby individual lodges will beclosed periodically for a few years to enable the troutstocks to recover.

In 1991, to conserve the trophy sport fishery,Great Bear Lake and its tributaries were designateda Special Management Area (Northwest TerritoriesFishery Regulations). Anglers who wish to fish thearea require both a Sport Fishing Licence and aSpecial Management Area Licence. Within this areathe daily catch limit and the possession limit for laketrout (1 and 2) are lower than the general limits forthe Northwest Territories. These limits apply toGreat Bear Lake, the Camsell River from Great BearLake upstream to White Eagle Falls, and all othertributaries of Great Bear Lake from their mouths to1 km upstream.

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Prior to 1974, the daily catch and possessionlimits for lake trout at Great Bear Lake, were 5 and10 respectively (Yaremchuk 1986). These limitswere reduced in 1974 to 3 and 5, in 1979 to 2 and 3,and in 1991 to 1 and 2. These reductions wereimplemented to ensure a sustainable fishery forlarge trophy lake trout (R. Moshenko, pers. comm.)In 1991, the daily catch and possession limits forArctic grayling and northern pike at Great Bear Lakewere reduced from 5 and 10 to 2 and 3.

The areas of Great Bear Lake fished byguests of the sport lodges are shown on Figure 4.These areas were originally delimited by Robergeand Dunn (1988) and recently updated by C.Plummer (pers. comm.). They are now somewhatgreater than those given by Roberge and Dunn(1988), who based their maps on creel census datafrom the 1984-5 fishing season. Yaremchuk (1986)shows fishing as taking place along more of thelake's northern shoreline, and in the middle of Smithand Dease arms. These areas are only fished onoccasion.

Declining total sport harvests in the 1970'sand 1980's (Table 4) do not necessarily reflect adecline in the fish population. Mostly, they reflect theeffects of decreasing catch and possession limits,and changes in lodge policy to encourage anglers tocatch and release trophy fish.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Laura Anderson, Ken Chang-Kue, ColetteCraig, Chris Day, Mary Layton, Dave Moshenko,Robert Moshenko and Ross Tallman of DFO,Winnipeg; George Low and Fred Taptuna of DFO,Hay River; Margaret Treble of the University ofManitoba; and Cécile Stewart of Arctic BiologicalConsultants gave freely of their time and expertise.They provided much of the information in this reportand undertook careful reviews of the manuscript atvarious stages. Blair Dunn of DFO, Winnipeg, kindlyprepared the base maps. Gary Carder, Bruce Fallis,Lyle Lockhart, Jim Reist, Tom Strong and DanTopolniski of DFO, Winnipeg; D. Grindlay of GNWTEconomic Development, Yellowknife; Walter Bayhaof GNWT Renewable Resources, Déline; and manyothers also provided welcome information andadvice. Your participation has greatly strengthenedthis work and I thank you.

I thank especially, Chummy Plummer ofPlummer's Arctic Fishing Lodges in Winnipeg for

kindly provided background information on the GreatBear Lake sport fishery, and for reviewing thepenultimate draft of the Great Bear Lake portions ofthe manuscript.

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Tabl

e 1.

Har

vest

s of

fish

es fr

om th

e Sa

htu

Den

e an

d M

etis

Set

tlem

ent A

rea,

exc

ept G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e dr

aina

ge b

asin

, by

com

mun

ity a

rea

and

wat

erbo

dy.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

CO

LVIL

LE L

AKE

Ande

rson

Riv

er67

°50'

N, 1

24°4

5'W

In 1

975,

an

expe

rimen

tal s

eine

fish

ery

caug

ht s

limy

scul

pin

and

imm

atur

e Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g,bu

rbot

, suc

ker a

nd w

hite

fish

at th

is s

ite o

n th

e An

ders

on R

iver

. Th

e riv

er is

a m

igra

tion

rout

e fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

inco

nnu,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, s

ucke

r, an

d w

hite

fish.

The

rive

r and

its

tribu

tarie

s pr

ovid

e sp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry h

abita

t for

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

bur

bot,

suck

er, a

ndw

hite

fish.

Res

iden

ts o

f Col

ville

Lak

e, F

ort G

ood

Hop

e, a

nd/o

r Dél

ine

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ceat

man

y of

the

unna

med

hea

dwat

er la

kes

on th

e An

ders

on R

iver

sys

tem

(e.g

. 66°

58'N

,12

3°27

'W; 6

6°51

'N, 1

23°3

2'W

; 66°

54'N

, 123

°17'

W; 6

6°55

'N, 1

24°3

5'W

; 66°

56'N

,12

4°19

'W; 6

6°57

'N, 1

24°1

1'W

) in

conj

unct

ion

with

win

ter h

untin

g an

d tra

ppin

g.

(Sut

herla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78; T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995;

NLU

IS 9

6J+N

)

Aubr

y La

ke67

°20'

N, 1

26°2

5'W

lake

trou

t [2,

000]

1988

--NF;

1989

--2 k

g;Th

is la

ke o

n th

e An

ders

on R

iver

sys

tem

is fi

shed

yea

r-rou

nd fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

sof

Col

ville

Lak

e an

d Fo

rt G

ood

Hop

e fro

m O

ctob

er th

roug

h Fe

brua

ry, a

s ar

e m

any

of it

stri

buta

ries'

unna

med

hea

dwat

er la

kes

(e.g

. 67°

16'N

, 126

°46'

W).

Lak

e w

hite

fish,

lake

trout

, nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd b

urbo

t are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s ha

rves

ted.

In

1975

an

expe

rimen

tal

gilln

et fi

sher

y ca

ught

lake

trou

t and

lake

and

roun

d w

hite

fish

in A

ubry

Lak

e. A

nex

perim

enta

l fis

hery

was

con

duct

ed a

t Aub

ry L

ake

1989

. (V

illier

s 19

68; B

isse

tt 19

72;

Suth

erla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78; D

FO 1

991,

199

2a; M

cGow

an 1

993;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

1995

; NLU

IS 9

6M)

lake

whi

tefis

h[2

,000

]19

88--N

F;19

89--2

0 kg

;

Col

ville

Lak

e67

°10'

N, 1

26°0

0'W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

[1,0

00]

1988

--NF;

This

lake

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed y

ear-r

ound

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of C

olvi

lle L

ake

and

Fort

Goo

d H

ope,

and

for s

port

by g

uest

s of

the

Col

ville

Lak

e Lo

dge

(67°

02.5

'N, 1

26°0

5'W

). S

ubsi

sten

ce h

arve

ster

s ge

nera

lly fi

sh th

e no

rth e

nd o

f the

lake

infa

ll an

d w

inte

r and

the

sout

h en

d in

spr

ing

and

sum

mer

. Th

e m

ain

spec

ies

take

n ar

ela

ke tr

out,

whi

tefis

h, a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

. Th

e sp

ort l

odge

has

ope

rate

d si

nce

1966

. It

has

12 g

uest

bed

s an

d is

ope

n ye

ar-ro

und.

Gue

sts

angl

e fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

inco

nnu,

lake

trout

, nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd w

hite

fish.

An

outp

ost c

amp

of th

e lo

dge

is lo

cate

d at

the

outle

tto

Col

ville

Lak

e (6

7°19

'W, 1

25°4

3'W

). In

197

5, a

n ex

perim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

y sa

mpl

edth

e la

ke a

nd it

s tri

buta

ry B

lood

y Pa

ck C

reek

. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, n

orth

ern

pike

, and

whi

tefis

hsp

awn

in th

e la

ke's

trib

utar

ies

and

use

them

as

nurs

ery

area

s. T

he la

ke o

utle

t is

anim

porta

nt n

urse

ry a

rea,

and

the

lake

sho

res

are

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

hab

itat f

or la

ketro

ut a

nd w

hite

fish.

An

expe

rimen

tal l

icen

ce w

as is

sued

for C

olvi

lle L

ake,

in 1

988,

but

the

lake

was

not

fish

ed.

DFO

sam

pled

lake

trou

t and

lake

whi

tefis

h in

Col

ville

Lak

e fo

rbi

olog

ical

dat

a an

d he

avy

met

al a

nd o

rgan

ic c

onta

min

ants

in 1

993-

-bot

tom

sed

imen

tsw

ere

also

sam

pled

for c

onta

min

ants

. (V

illier

s 19

68; B

isse

tt 19

72; S

uthe

rland

and

Goh

lke

1978

; DFO

199

1; M

uir e

t al.

1994

; Loc

khar

t et a

l. 19

95; T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995;

NLU

IS96

M+N

)

Col

ville

Lak

ege

nera

l are

aIn

197

2, th

e co

mbi

ned

subs

iste

nce

harv

est o

f fis

h by

resi

dent

s of

For

t Goo

d H

ope

and

Col

ville

Lak

e w

as e

stim

ated

at 4

5,45

0 kg

. In

198

8, L

utra

Ass

ocia

tes

Ltd.

sur

veye

dre

side

nts

of C

olvi

lle L

ake

for i

nfor

mat

ion

on th

eir s

ubsi

sten

ce h

arve

sts,

as

did

DFO

in19

95.

Nei

ther

stu

dy e

stim

ated

the

annu

al h

arve

st.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Lut

ra A

ssoc

iate

s Lt

d.19

89; R

awso

n Ac

adem

y of

Aqu

atic

Sci

ence

199

0; T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Esta

broo

k La

ke66

°53'

N, 1

23°4

7'W

This

lake

on

the

Hor

ton

Riv

er s

yste

m a

nd th

e he

adw

ater

lake

s of

its

tribu

tary

stre

ams

have

bee

n fis

hed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce o

n oc

casi

on in

the

past

by

trapp

ers

from

Col

ville

Lak

e,D

élin

e, F

ort G

ood

Hop

e an

d Fo

rt N

orm

an.

The

lake

sup

ports

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

bur

bot,

lake

trout

, and

whi

tefis

h. (

NLU

IS 9

6O)

Gas

send

Lak

e68

°00'

N, 1

26°1

0'W

In 1

975,

an

expe

rimen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

sam

pled

this

lake

in th

e An

ders

on R

iver

dra

inag

eba

sin.

(Su

ther

land

and

Goh

lke

1978

)

Hor

ton

Lake

(Ara

kay

Lake

)67

°30'

N, 1

22°2

0'W

This

lake

on

the

Hor

ton

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

in e

arly

win

ter b

y tra

pper

sw

ho v

isit

the

area

from

Col

ville

Lak

e an

d D

élin

e, a

nd p

ossi

bly

othe

r Sah

tu c

omm

uniti

es.

(D. M

oshe

nko,

per

s. c

omm

.; N

LUIS

96O

)

Lac

Belo

t66

°52'

N, 1

26°1

7'W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

[80

0]Sp

ort h

arve

st:

1985

--276

lake

trou

t cau

ght,

36 k

ept;

1988

--237

lake

trou

t (7.

28fis

h ca

ught

per

ang

ler h

r; 47

angl

er d

ays)

;19

89--8

9 la

ke tr

out (

3.24

fish

caug

ht p

er a

ngle

r hr);

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1988

--NF;

1991

--NF;

This

lake

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed y

ear-r

ound

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of C

olvi

lle L

ake

and

Fort

Goo

d H

ope.

In

1975

, an

expe

rimen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

caug

htla

ke tr

out,

north

ern

pike

and

roun

d w

hite

fish

in L

ac B

elot

. G

uest

s of

Tro

phy

Lodg

e on

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

fly to

Lac

Bel

ot to

ang

le fo

r lak

e tro

ut a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

. In

198

5, lo

dge

guid

es c

olle

cted

dat

a fro

m th

is fi

sher

y fo

r DFO

, and

DFO

sam

pled

lake

trou

t fro

m th

ean

gler

s' c

reel

s. I

n 19

88 a

nd 1

989,

dat

a on

the

spor

t har

vest

wer

e co

llect

ed b

y D

FOus

ing

angl

er d

iarie

s. E

xper

imen

tal l

icen

ces

wer

e is

sued

in 1

988

and

1991

, but

the

lake

was

not

fish

ed.

In 1

983,

DFO

sam

pled

lake

trou

t fro

m L

ac B

elot

for b

iolo

gica

l dat

a an

dhe

avy

met

al a

nd o

rgan

ic c

onta

min

ants

. Th

ey a

lso

sam

pled

lake

sed

imen

ts fo

rco

ntam

inan

ts a

nd p

repa

red

a ba

thym

etric

map

for t

he la

ke.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Sut

herla

ndan

d G

ohlk

e 19

78; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

DFO

199

1, 1

993;

Mui

r et a

l. 19

94; L

ockh

art e

t al.

1995

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; L

. And

erso

n an

d L.

Lock

hart,

per

s. c

omm

.)

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1985

--20

caug

ht, n

one

kept

;

Lac

des

Bois

66°4

6'N

, 125

°11'

Wla

ke tr

out +

lake

whi

tefis

h [1

,000

]Sp

ort h

arve

st:

1985

--508

lake

trou

t cau

ght,

62 k

ept;

2 la

ke w

hite

fish

caug

ht, b

oth

kept

; Ex

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

88--N

F;

This

lake

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

For

tG

ood

Hop

e fro

m O

ctob

er th

roug

h Fe

brua

ry, g

ener

ally

at t

he s

outh

end

of t

he la

ke in

conj

unct

ion

with

trap

ping

. Th

e pr

esen

t ext

ent o

f thi

s fis

hery

is u

nkno

wn.

In

1975

, an

expe

rimen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

sam

pled

this

lake

in th

e An

ders

on R

iver

dra

inag

e ba

sin.

G

uest

s of

Tro

phy

Lodg

e on

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

fly to

Lac

des

Boi

s to

ang

le fo

r lak

e tro

ut,

north

ern

pike

, and

lake

whi

tefis

h. I

n 19

85, l

odge

gui

des

colle

cted

dat

a fro

m th

is fi

sher

yfo

r DFO

, and

DFO

sam

pled

lake

trou

t fro

m th

e an

gler

's c

reel

s. A

n ex

perim

enta

l lic

ence

was

issu

ed in

198

8, b

ut th

e la

ke w

as n

ot fi

shed

. (B

isse

tt 19

72; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

1989

; Sut

herla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78; D

FO 1

991;

NLU

IS 9

6K)

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1985

--6 c

augh

t, 3

kept

;

Lac

Mau

noir

67°3

0'N

, 125

°00'

WTh

is la

ke o

n th

e An

ders

on R

iver

sys

tem

has

bee

n fis

hed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

ofC

olvi

lle L

ake

in c

onju

nctio

n w

ith w

inte

r tra

ppin

g ac

tiviti

es.

An e

xper

imen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

sam

pled

this

lake

197

5. A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, n

orth

ern

pike

, and

whi

tefis

h sp

awn

in th

e la

ke's

tribu

tarie

s an

d us

e th

em a

s nu

rser

y ar

eas.

The

lake

out

let i

s an

impo

rtant

nur

sery

are

a,an

d th

e la

ke s

hore

s ar

e sp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry h

abita

t for

lake

trou

t and

whi

tefis

h.

(Sut

herla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78; N

LUIS

96N

)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Niw

elin

Lak

e67

°50'

N, 1

26°0

0'W

This

lake

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

Col

ville

Lake

in s

umm

er a

nd fa

ll. A

n ex

perim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

y sa

mpl

ed th

is la

ke 1

975.

Arc

ticgr

aylin

g, n

orth

ern

pike

, and

whi

tefis

h sp

awn

in th

e la

ke's

trib

utar

ies

and

use

them

as

nurs

ery

area

s. T

he la

ke o

utle

t is

an im

porta

nt n

urse

ry a

rea,

and

the

lake

sho

res

are

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

hab

itat f

or la

ke tr

out a

nd w

hite

fish.

(Su

ther

land

and

Goh

lke

1978

;Ta

ptun

a an

d Lo

w 1

995;

NLU

IS 9

6N)

Tade

k La

keSe

e FO

RT

GO

OD

HO

PE--T

adek

Lak

e.

Tedj

i Lak

e67

°42'

N, 1

26°3

8'W

This

lake

has

bee

n fis

hed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of C

olvi

lle L

ake

in c

onju

nctio

nw

ith w

inte

r tra

ppin

g.

(NLU

IS 9

6M).

DÉL

INE

Onl

y th

ose

Dél

ine

fishe

ries

that

lie

outs

ide

the

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

drai

nage

bas

in a

redi

scus

sed

here

. M

ost D

élin

e fis

herie

s ar

e di

scus

sed

in T

able

s 2

and

3 w

hich

des

crib

efis

herie

s in

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

and

its tr

ibut

arie

s.

Ande

rson

Riv

erSe

e C

OLV

ILLE

LAK

E--A

nder

son

Riv

er.

Esta

broo

k La

keSe

e C

OLV

ILLE

LAK

E--E

stab

rook

Lak

e.

Falls

tone

Lak

eSe

e FO

RT

NO

RM

AN--F

alls

tone

Lak

e.

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

drai

nage

bas

inSe

e Ta

bles

2 to

4.

Hor

ton

Lake

See

CO

LVIL

LE L

AKE-

-Hor

ton

Lake

.

Lac

Ste.

The

rese

See

Tabl

e 3.

Stew

art L

ake

See

FOR

T N

OR

MAN

--Ste

war

t Lak

e.

unna

med

lake

65°4

5'N

, 125

°15'

Wla

ke w

hite

fish

[454

]Ex

perim

enta

l fis

hery

197

9. N

o re

cord

of h

arve

st. (

Yare

mch

uk e

t al.

1989

)

unna

med

lake

(Cle

men

t Lak

e)65

°42'

N, 1

25°2

0'W

lake

whi

tefis

h[2

,268

]N

o re

cord

of c

omm

erci

al h

arve

st.

(Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

)

unna

med

lake

65°1

9'N

, 125

°24'

Wla

ke w

hite

fish

[2,2

68]

No

reco

rd o

f com

mer

cial

har

vest

. (Y

arem

chuk

et a

l. 19

89)

Yello

w L

ake

See

FOR

T N

OR

MAN

--Yel

low

Lak

e.

FOR

T G

OO

D H

OPE

Aubr

y La

keSe

e C

OLV

ILLE

LAK

E--A

ubry

Lak

e.

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Blue

fish

Riv

er66

°30'

N, 1

28°1

6'W

In J

uly,

this

trib

utar

y of

the

Har

e R

iver

is a

mig

ratio

n ro

ute

for A

rctic

cis

co, A

rctic

gra

ylin

g,no

rther

n pi

ke, w

alle

ye, a

nd w

hite

fish

to a

nd fr

om th

e M

acke

nzie

Riv

er.

It is

als

o a

nurs

ery

area

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, an

d la

ke w

hite

fish.

A n

umbe

r of

unna

med

lake

s on

the

Blue

fish

Riv

er s

yste

m (e

.g. 6

6°58

'N, 1

26°3

5'W

; 66°

54'N

,12

6°38

'W; 6

6°54

'N, 1

27°0

0'W

) hav

e be

en fi

shed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce in

win

ter b

y tra

pper

sfro

m F

ort G

ood

Hop

e an

d C

olvi

lle L

ake.

(N

LUIS

96L

+106

I)

Burn

t Lak

e67

°26'

N, 1

28°1

0'W

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

harv

est w

hite

fish

and

north

ern

pike

for s

ubsi

sten

ce fr

omth

is h

eadw

ater

lake

on

the

Car

nwat

h R

iver

in th

e fa

ll. (

Tapt

una

and

Low

199

5)

Car

cajo

u R

iver

64°5

8'N

,127

°11.

5'W

A ba

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udy

of th

e C

arca

jou

Riv

er s

yste

m w

as c

ondu

cted

by

DFO

in 1

971-

72 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

inAp

pend

ix 1

. Th

e riv

er is

use

d by

whi

tefis

h, lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, an

d ot

her f

ish

spec

ies

as a

nurs

ery

area

and

pre

sum

ably

for s

paw

ning

pur

pose

s. C

arca

jou

Falls

(64°

44'N

,12

7°12

'W) r

estri

ct u

pstre

am fi

sh m

ovem

ent i

n th

e riv

er.

Arct

ic c

isco

wer

e co

llect

ed fr

omth

e riv

er in

198

8 fo

r gen

etic

ana

lyse

s. (H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

tein

et

al. 1

973;

Loc

kwoo

d an

d Bi

ckha

m 1

989;

Mor

ales

et a

l. 19

89; T

roy

1989

; Dilli

nger

et a

l.19

92; N

LUIS

96D

)

Car

cajo

u La

ke67

°16'

N, 1

28°4

0'W

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

harv

est w

hite

fish

and

lake

trou

t fro

m th

is la

ke o

n th

e Lo

onR

iver

sys

tem

for s

ubsi

sten

ce in

sum

mer

, fal

l, an

d w

inte

r. D

FO s

ampl

ed th

e la

ke in

Oct

ober

-Nov

embe

r 198

6. L

ake

trout

and

lake

whi

tefis

h w

ere

take

n fo

r bio

logi

cal a

ndge

netic

ana

lysi

s, A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, b

urbo

t and

nor

ther

n pi

ke a

re a

lso

pres

ent.

A la

ke o

nth

e Li

ttle

Keel

e R

iver

sys

tem

is a

lso

nam

ed C

arca

jou

(see

FO

RT

NO

RM

AN--C

arca

jou

Lake

) (R

eist

198

7; T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995;

NLU

IS 9

6D)

Chi

ck L

ake

65°5

2'N

, 128

°11'

WTh

e ou

tlet s

tream

of t

his

lake

on

the

Don

nelly

Riv

er s

yste

m is

an

impo

rtant

spa

wni

ng a

ndnu

rser

y ar

ea fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing.

Bur

bot a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

spa

wn

and

over

win

ter i

n th

ela

ke.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

and

long

nose

suc

ker m

igra

te th

roug

h th

e la

ke to

spa

wn

in th

eou

tlet.

(NLU

IS 1

06H

)

Col

ville

Lak

eSe

e C

OLV

ILLE

LAK

E--C

olvi

lle L

ake.

Don

nelly

Riv

er65

°50'

N, 1

28°4

6'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of th

e D

onne

lly R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

73 fo

rth

e M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

Six

teen

spe

cies

of f

ish

wer

e ca

ught

in th

e D

onne

lly(A

ppen

dix

1), b

ut o

nly

four

spe

cies

(Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

long

nose

suc

ker,

north

ern

pike

, and

slim

y sc

ulpi

n) w

ere

dist

ribut

ed th

roug

hout

the

drai

nage

. G

rayl

ing

and

long

nose

suc

kers

,th

e m

ost a

bund

ant s

peci

es, w

ere

stud

ied

in d

etai

l and

thei

r life

his

torie

s an

d ge

nera

lpa

ttern

s of

mov

emen

t des

crib

ed.

Gra

ylin

g in

the

Don

nelly

Riv

er g

row

qui

ckly

and

som

em

atur

e by

age

2 y

ears

. Th

ey m

igra

te in

to th

e D

onne

lly d

urin

g sp

ring

brea

k-up

in e

arly

and

mid

-May

and

spa

wn

in la

te M

ay.

Adul

ts re

mai

n in

the

outle

t of C

hick

Lak

e (s

eeab

ove)

, a m

ajor

spa

wni

ng a

rea,

abo

ut a

mon

th a

fter s

paw

ning

and

then

man

y di

sper

sedo

wns

tream

or r

etur

n to

the

Mac

kenz

ie R

iver

. So

me

tagg

ed g

rayl

ing

retu

rn to

the

Don

nelly

in s

ubse

quen

t yea

rs.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

tagg

ed in

Jun

e an

d Ju

ly 1

972,

wer

ere

capt

ured

as

far u

pstre

am a

s th

e m

outh

of W

olve

rine

Cre

ek o

n th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er,

and

as fa

r dow

nstre

am a

s Fo

rt G

ood

Hop

e. D

urin

g th

e op

en w

ater

per

iod,

sm

all t

ribut

ary

stre

ams

are

impo

rtant

rear

ing

area

s fo

r you

ng g

rayl

ing.

Lon

gnos

e su

cker

s in

the

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Don

nelly

Riv

er--c

ontin

ued.

Don

nelly

are

slo

w g

row

ing.

The

you

nges

t mat

ure

mal

es w

ere

aged

9 y

ears

, and

the

fem

ales

age

d 12

yea

rs.

Adul

ts m

ove

into

Don

nelly

in m

id to

late

May

and

spa

wn

in e

arly

June

. By

ear

ly J

uly

both

adu

lts a

nd fr

y ha

ve m

oved

dow

nstre

am fr

om a

maj

or s

paw

ning

area

in th

e up

per D

onne

lly, w

ith th

e ad

ults

dis

pers

ing

thro

ugh

the

low

er re

ache

s of

the

river

and

som

e ex

iting

to th

e M

acke

nzie

Riv

er.

Man

y ot

her a

dults

leav

e th

e dr

aina

ge in

late

Sep

tem

ber.

Lon

gnos

e su

cker

s ta

gged

in 1

972

wer

e re

capt

ured

the

sam

e ye

ar in

Osc

ar C

reek

(see

NO

RM

AN W

ELLS

--Osc

ar C

reek

), up

stre

am, a

nd a

t For

t Goo

d H

ope,

dow

nstre

am.

(McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Trip

p an

d M

cCar

t 197

4; C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

1980

)

Esta

broo

k La

keSe

e C

OLV

ILLE

LAK

E--E

stab

rook

Lak

e

Fort

Goo

d H

ope

gene

ral a

rea

broa

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

a19

78--1

8 fis

h (4

1 kg

);

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1989

--632

fish

(1,4

54 k

g);

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

harv

este

d an

est

imat

ed 1

57,5

00 k

g of

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

cein

196

1. I

n 19

72, t

he c

ombi

ned

subs

iste

nce

harv

est o

f fis

h by

resi

dent

s of

For

t Goo

dH

ope

and

Col

ville

Lak

e w

as e

stim

ated

at 4

5,45

0 kg

. D

FO s

urve

yed

com

mer

cial

and

dom

estic

lice

nce

hold

ers

for i

nfor

mat

ion

on th

eir f

ish

harv

ests

in 1

978

and

1989

. W

hile

dom

estic

lice

nces

are

pur

chas

ed b

y no

n-na

tive

harv

este

rs w

ho w

ish

to fi

sh fo

rsu

bsis

tenc

e, th

ese

data

wer

e co

mbi

ned

with

the

com

mer

cial

dat

a. A

sub

sist

ence

harv

est s

tudy

was

con

duct

ed in

198

2 fo

r the

For

t Goo

d H

ope

Band

Cou

ncil

(unp

ubl.)

. In

1988

, Lut

ra A

ssoc

iate

s Lt

d., a

nd in

199

5 D

FO, s

urve

yed

com

mun

ity re

side

nts

for

info

rmat

ion

on th

eir s

ubsi

sten

ce h

arve

sts

of fi

sh.

Nei

ther

stu

dy e

stim

ated

the

annu

alha

rves

t. D

FO fo

und

low

leve

ls o

f chl

orin

ated

hyd

roca

rbon

s in

the

liver

s of

bur

bot

sam

pled

from

the

area

, in

1985

, rel

ativ

e to

mor

e so

uthe

rly p

opul

atio

ns.

(Sin

clai

r et a

l.19

67; B

isse

tt 19

72; L

utra

Ass

ocia

tes

Ltd.

198

9; B

erke

s 19

90; M

uir e

t al.

1990

; Raw

son

Acad

emy

of A

quat

ic S

cien

ce 1

990;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; T

rebl

e 19

96; N

LUIS

106

I)

cisc

o sp

p.--n

o qu

ota

1978

--275

fish

(110

kg)

;

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1982

--17,

580

fish

(7,0

32 k

g);

1989

--4,9

29 fi

sh (1

,972

kg)

;

inco

nnu

--no

quot

a19

78--8

0 fis

h (3

60 k

g);

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1982

--11,

192

fish

(50,

364

kg);

1989

--1,4

51 fi

sh (6

,530

kg)

;

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1989

--3,6

76 fi

sh (4

,779

kg)

;

whi

tefis

h sp

p.--n

o qu

ota

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1982

--26,

453

fish

(47,

615

kg);

othe

r--n

o qu

ota

1978

--3 fi

sh (7

kg)

;

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1982

--4,5

72 fi

sh (1

0,42

7 kg

);19

89--3

,261

fish

(5,5

26 k

g);

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er66

°18'

N, 1

28°3

4'W

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce in

sum

mer

, and

to a

less

er e

xten

t in

sprin

g an

d fa

ll, a

t the

mou

th o

f the

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er, a

trib

utar

y of

the

Mac

kenz

ie R

iver

. Ar

ctic

cis

co, A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, in

conn

u, s

ucke

r, w

hite

fish

and

north

ern

pike

are

har

vest

ed.

Subs

iste

nce

harv

este

rs re

port

a m

ovem

ent o

f Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

from

Lac

á J

acqu

es in

to th

eH

are

Indi

an R

iver

in th

e sp

ring

to s

paw

n. E

xper

imen

tal f

ishe

ry s

urve

ys o

f the

rive

rsy

stem

in 1

971-

74 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e, in

197

3 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie H

ighw

ay,

and

in 1

975

for t

he A

rctic

Lan

d U

se R

esea

rch

prog

ram

foun

d th

e riv

er to

be

an im

porta

ntsp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r. T

he lo

wer

reac

hes

also

pro

vide

spa

wni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry h

abita

t for

nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd n

urse

ry h

abita

t for

lake

and

roun

d w

hite

fish

and

long

nose

and

whi

te s

ucke

r. F

ish

may

ove

rwin

ter i

n th

e riv

er.

Spec

ies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

App

endi

x 1.

(Vi

lliers

196

8; B

isse

tt 19

72;

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Lom

bard

Nor

th G

roup

Inc.

197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73;

Stei

n et

al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; S

chul

tz In

tern

atio

nal L

td. 1

974;

Jess

op a

nd L

illey

1975

; Lille

y 19

75; S

uthe

rland

and

Goh

lke

1978

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

1995

; NLU

IS 1

06I)

Hum

e R

iver

66°0

1'N

, 129

°15'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Hum

e R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1.

The

head

wat

er la

kes

prov

ide

nurs

ery

habi

tat f

or A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d la

ke c

hub.

Man

ysm

all l

akes

bet

wee

n th

e R

ampa

rts a

nd H

ume

river

s ha

ve b

een

fishe

d fo

r sub

sist

ence

,an

d re

side

nts

of F

ort G

ood

Hop

e al

so fi

sh y

ear-r

ound

for s

ubsi

sten

ce in

the

Hum

e R

iver

. W

hite

fish,

inco

nnu,

and

bur

bot a

re th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d. (

Shot

ton

1971

, 197

3;H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; J

esso

p et

al.

1974

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5;N

LUIS

106

H+I

)

Kilk

ale

Lake

66°3

9'N

, 124

°00'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs fr

om F

ort G

ood

Hop

e ha

ve o

ccas

iona

lly fi

shed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce a

tKi

lkal

e La

ke o

n th

e An

ders

on R

iver

sys

tem

. In

197

5, a

n ex

perim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

y at

the

east

end

of t

he la

ke c

augh

t nor

ther

n pi

ke a

nd la

ke a

nd b

road

whi

tefis

h. (

Suth

erla

ndan

d G

ohlk

e 19

78; N

LUIS

Map

96J

)

Lac

á Ja

cque

s(L

oche

Lak

e)66

°08'

N, 1

27°2

5'W

This

hea

dwat

er la

ke o

f the

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

Fort

Goo

d H

ope

in O

ctob

er th

roug

h Fe

brua

ry, a

nd F

ort N

orm

an in

sum

mer

and

win

ter.

DFO

sam

pled

fish

in th

e la

ke in

the

fall

of 1

994,

for b

iolo

gica

l dat

a an

d he

avy

met

al a

ndor

gani

c co

ntam

inan

ts.

Lac

á Ja

cque

s su

ppor

ts A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, b

urbo

t, w

hite

fish,

north

ern

pike

, and

wal

leye

. In

the

sprin

g, A

rctic

gra

ylin

g m

ove

from

the

lake

into

the

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er to

spa

wn.

Tis

sue

mer

cury

con

cent

ratio

ns in

the

north

ern

pike

and

wal

leye

wer

e fo

und

to e

xced

e le

vels

reco

mm

ende

d fo

r hum

an c

onsu

mpt

ion.

(Bi

sset

t19

72; L

illey

1975

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

96L

; L. L

ockh

art,

pers

. com

m.)

Lac

Belo

tSe

e C

OLV

ILLE

LAK

E--L

ac B

elot

.

Loon

Riv

er a

nd L

ake

66°2

8'N

, 128

°58'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Loon

Riv

er s

yste

m w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

1-72

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. Sp

ecie

s re

porte

dfro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1. T

he ri

ver i

s a

nurs

ery

area

for l

ongn

ose

suck

er, w

hite

fish,

and

cis

co.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing,

bro

ad w

hite

fish,

leas

t cis

co, a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

use

the

river

to m

ove

betw

een

Loon

, Man

uel,

and

Ror

ey la

kes.

The

rive

r mou

th a

ndLo

on L

ake

(66°

36'N

,

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Loon

Riv

er a

nd L

ake

--con

tinue

d.12

8°42

'W) a

re fi

shed

yea

r-rou

nd fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

For

t Goo

d H

ope.

(B

isse

tt 19

72; H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

hotto

n 19

73; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73;

Schu

ltz In

tern

atio

nal L

td. 1

974;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

106

I)

Mac

kenz

ie D

elta

(Are

a 5)

broa

d w

hite

fish

1,00

019

91-2

--NA;

1993

--2,3

00 k

g;Th

is m

anag

emen

t are

a w

as e

stab

lishe

d in

197

6. P

rior t

o 19

91, i

t ext

ende

d fro

m P

oint

Sepa

ratio

n to

just

ups

tream

of T

siig

ehtc

hic

on th

e M

acke

nzie

and

Arc

tic R

ed R

iver

s.

Sinc

e 19

91, t

his

quot

a ar

ea h

as e

xten

ded

upst

ream

from

Poi

nt S

epar

atio

n to

the

conf

luen

ce o

f the

Mou

ntai

n an

d M

acke

nzie

rive

rs in

the

Saht

u D

ene

and

Met

is S

ettle

men

tAr

ea.

Prio

r to

1991

the

area

was

fish

ed a

lmos

t exc

lusi

vely

by

resi

dent

s of

Tsi

igeh

tchi

c, it

ssu

bseq

uent

ext

ensi

on u

pstre

am m

eans

that

the

area

now

enc

ompa

sses

wat

ers

fishe

dco

mm

erci

ally

by

resi

dent

s of

Tsi

igeh

tchi

c (G

wic

h'in

) and

For

t Goo

d H

ope

(Sah

tu D

ene

and

Met

is).

The

harv

est d

ata

pres

ente

d he

re w

ere

repo

rted

durin

g D

FO s

urve

ys o

f the

lice

nced

com

mer

cial

fish

erm

en--t

hese

dat

a w

ere

not e

xtra

pola

ted

to p

rovi

de a

n es

timat

e of

the

tota

lha

rves

t. R

espo

nse

rate

s to

thos

e qu

estio

nnai

res

in th

e w

este

rn A

rctic

wer

e 27

% in

199

1,ni

l in

1992

, and

55%

in 1

993,

so

the

qual

ity o

f the

har

vest

est

imat

e is

not

kno

wn.

The

mai

n sp

ecie

s ha

rves

ted

and

sold

are

bro

ad w

hite

fish

and

inco

nnu,

with

less

er a

mou

nts

ofla

ke w

hite

fish,

cis

co s

p., a

nd o

ther

fish

es h

avin

g oc

casi

onal

ly b

een

sold

. C

ompa

rison

of

the

harv

est a

nd s

ales

figu

res

sugg

ests

that

sal

es fi

gure

s w

ere

inco

mpl

ete,

or t

hat a

sign

ifica

nt p

ortio

n of

the

catc

h is

eith

er u

sed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce o

r unm

arke

tabl

e. I

t is

not

know

n w

hat p

ropo

rtion

of t

he 1

991-

3 co

mm

erci

al h

arve

sts

was

take

n by

Gw

ich'

infis

herm

en.

DFO

lice

nced

10

com

mer

cial

fish

erm

en fr

om T

siig

ehtc

hic

in 1

991,

and

2 in

each

of 1

992

and

1993

. A

sing

le c

omm

erci

al fi

sher

man

was

lice

nced

from

For

t Goo

dH

ope

in 1

993.

(D

FO 1

993,

199

4, 1

995;

Tre

ble

1996

)

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est d

ata

are

not a

vaila

ble

for t

his

area

spe

cific

ally

, but

hav

e be

enco

llect

ed fo

r the

com

mun

ity o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

(see

abo

ve F

ort G

ood

Hop

e ge

nera

l are

a).

The

Mac

kenz

ie R

iver

nea

r The

Ram

parts

is fi

shed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of F

ort

Goo

d H

ope

thro

ugho

ut th

e su

mm

er a

nd fa

ll. T

he p

eak

fishi

ng p

erio

d is

bet

wee

n m

id-

Augu

st a

nd la

te S

epte

mbe

r. M

ajor

fish

spe

cies

enc

ount

ered

are

Arc

tic c

isco

, bur

bot,

inco

nnu,

and

whi

tefis

h sp

p. (

Wyn

ne-E

dwar

ds 1

947;

Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73).

DFO

has

use

d ra

dio

tagg

ing

stud

ies

to id

entif

y a

num

ber o

f spa

wni

ng s

ites

for b

road

whi

tefis

h in

this

are

a--p

erha

ps th

e m

ost i

mpo

rtant

of w

hich

is lo

cate

d up

stre

am fr

om th

eco

mm

unity

at t

he U

pper

Ram

parts

. Th

ey h

ave

also

col

lect

ed b

road

whi

tefis

h at

The

Upp

erR

ampa

rts fo

r gen

etic

ana

lyse

s. (

Rei

st 1

990,

199

6a; C

hang

-Kue

and

Jes

sop

1996

)

burb

ot--n

o qu

ota

1991

-2--N

A;19

93--9

0 kg

;

cisc

o sp

p.50

0

herri

ng60

019

91-2

--NA;

1993

--0 k

g;

inco

nnu

--no

quot

a19

91-2

--NA;

1993

--720

kg;

lake

whi

tefis

h4,

600

1991

-2--N

A;19

93--8

71 k

g;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

a19

91-2

--NA;

1993

--230

kg;

othe

r spe

cies

--no

quot

a 19

91-2

--NA;

1993

--60

kg;

Man

uel L

ake

67°0

0'N

, 128

°56'

Wla

ke tr

out +

lake

whi

tefis

h

800

1974

--907

kg;

1990

--lak

e tro

ut 1

00 k

g, la

ke

whi

tefis

h 13

6 kg

;19

91--N

F;19

93--N

A;

This

lake

on

the

Loon

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

For

t Goo

dH

ope

in th

e su

mm

er, f

all a

nd w

inte

r in

supp

ort o

f hun

ting

and

trapp

ing

activ

ities

. N

orth

ern

pike

, bur

bot,

lake

trou

t and

whi

tefis

h ar

e th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d.

Com

mer

cial

har

vest

s w

ere

repo

rted

from

the

lake

in 1

974

and

1990

. D

FO s

ampl

ed fi

shin

Man

uel L

ake

in th

e fa

ll of

199

4, fo

r bio

logi

cal d

ata

and

heav

y m

etal

and

org

anic

cont

amin

ants

. (Y

arem

chuk

et a

l. 19

89; D

FO 1

992b

, 199

3, 1

995;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5;N

LUIS

106

I; L.

Loc

khar

t, pe

rs. c

omm

.)

Mar

ion

Lake

66°4

8'N

, 130

°35'

WR

esid

ents

of F

ort G

ood

Hop

e ha

rves

t whi

tefis

h, la

ke tr

out,

north

ern

pike

, and

bur

bot f

orsu

bsis

tenc

e in

the

fall

and

win

ter f

rom

this

lake

. (T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Moo

n La

keSe

e N

OR

MAN

WEL

LS--M

oon

Lake

.

Mou

ntai

n R

iver

65°4

1'N

, 128

°55'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

the

Mou

ntai

n R

iver

sys

tem

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1-72

for

the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1. A

rctic

cis

co, A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke c

hub,

and

long

nose

suc

ker w

ere

caug

ht in

the

grea

test

num

bers

and

may

spa

wn

in th

e riv

er s

yste

m.

The

river

was

als

o sa

mpl

ed in

1981

for t

he N

orm

an W

ells

Oilf

ield

Exp

ansi

on P

roje

ct.

Arct

ic c

isco

wer

e co

llect

ed fr

omth

e M

ount

ain

Riv

er s

yste

m in

198

8 fo

r gen

etic

ana

lyse

s. (

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al. 1

973;

Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74; E

nviro

con

1981

; Bic

kham

et a

l. 19

89; L

ockw

ood

and

Bick

ham

198

9; M

oral

es e

t al.

1989

; Tro

y 19

89; D

illing

er e

t al.

1992

)

Ont

adek

Lak

e68

°18'

N, 1

28°2

4'W

This

lake

has

bee

n fis

hed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of F

ort G

ood

Hop

e. (

NLU

IS 1

06I)

Ont

arat

ue R

iver

67°4

3'N

, 130

°01'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

the

Ont

arat

ue R

iver

sys

tem

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1-72

for

the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1. N

orth

ern

pike

spa

wn

in th

e O

ntar

atue

Riv

er w

hich

als

o se

rves

as

a nu

rser

y ar

ea fo

rim

mat

ure

pike

. (H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73)

Ram

parts

Riv

er66

°10'

N, 1

29°1

5'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of th

e R

ampa

rts R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

72 fo

rth

e M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

Spe

cies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

App

endi

x1.

(Sh

otto

n 19

71; H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73)

Ror

ey L

ake

66°5

5'N

, 128

°25'

Wla

te tr

out +

lake

whi

tefis

h

800

1991

--NF;

1993

--NA;

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce a

t thi

s la

ke o

n th

e Lo

on R

iver

yea

r-ro

und.

Lak

e tro

ut, w

hite

fish,

and

nor

ther

n pi

ke a

re th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d. T

he la

keha

s be

en o

pene

d fo

r com

mer

cial

har

vest

but

it h

as n

o re

cord

of c

omm

erci

al h

arve

st.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; DFO

199

3, 1

995;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

106I

)

Sam

McR

ae L

ake

65°5

7'N

, 127

°10'

Wla

ke tr

out +

lake

whi

tefis

h [

800]

1991

--NF;

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Goo

d H

ope

and

Nor

man

Wel

ls fi

sh fo

r sub

sist

ence

yea

r-rou

nd a

t thi

she

adw

ater

lake

on

the

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er s

yste

m.

Lake

trou

t, Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, n

orth

ern

pike

, and

whi

tefis

h ar

e ha

rves

ted.

The

lake

was

ope

ned

in 1

991

for a

n ex

perim

enta

lfis

hery

, but

not

fish

ed.

(DFO

199

3; T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995)

Snaf

u C

reek

66°0

1'N

, 128

°29'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Snaf

u C

reek

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

972

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. Th

e cr

eek

is a

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

and

long

nose

suc

ker,

and

north

ern

pike

spaw

n in

its

head

wat

er la

kes.

(Lo

mba

rd N

orth

Gro

up In

c. 1

973;

Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

tal

. 197

4)

Tade

k La

ke67

°00'

N, 1

27°2

5'W

This

lake

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed y

ear-r

ound

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of F

ort G

ood

Hop

e, a

nd p

ossi

bly

Col

ville

Lak

e. I

n 19

75, a

n ex

perim

enta

l gilln

et a

ndse

ine

fishe

ry s

ampl

ed T

adek

Lak

e an

d its

out

let,

the

Car

nwat

h R

iver

. Th

e la

ke s

uppo

rtsla

ke tr

out a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

, and

the

river

is a

spa

wni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gray

ling

and

suck

er.

(Sut

herla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78; T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995;

NLU

IS 9

6M)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Tied

a R

iver

66°4

3'N

, 129

°17'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Tied

a R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e, a

nd in

197

3 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie H

ighw

ay.

Spec

ies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

App

endi

x 1.

The

rive

r is

a sp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea

for

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

and

long

nose

suc

kers

. It

is fr

ozen

sol

id in

win

ter.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72;

Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; S

chul

tz In

tern

atio

nal L

td. 1

974)

Tsin

tu R

iver

66°0

7'N

, 128

°29'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Tsin

tu R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1.

Long

nose

suc

ker a

nd w

alle

ye s

paw

n in

the

low

er re

ache

s of

the

Tsin

tu R

iver

and

use

them

for a

nur

sery

are

a. T

he u

pper

reac

hes

are

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

as fo

r Arc

ticgr

aylin

g an

d sl

imy

scul

pin.

(D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

)

Tuna

go L

ake

See

Tabl

e 3-

-Tun

ago

Lake

.

Twee

d La

ke66

°48'

N, 1

25°5

2'W

This

lake

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m h

as b

een

fishe

d fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

Fort

Goo

d H

ope

in c

onju

nctio

n w

ith w

inte

r tra

ppin

g ac

tiviti

es.

An e

xper

imen

tal g

illnet

fishe

ry s

ampl

ed th

is la

ke 1

975.

(Su

ther

land

and

Goh

lke

1978

; NLU

IS 9

6K)

Yelte

a La

ke66

°54'

N, 1

29°2

4'W

This

lake

on

the

Tied

a R

iver

sys

tem

is fi

shed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of F

ort G

ood

Hop

e, m

ostly

in S

epte

mbe

r thr

ough

Dec

embe

r. L

ake

trout

, nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd w

hite

fish

are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s ha

rves

ted.

Yel

tea

Lake

was

sam

pled

in 1

971-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ieVa

lley

Pipe

line

stud

ies,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. D

FO c

olle

cted

lake

whi

tefis

h fro

m th

e la

ke in

Oct

ober

and

Nov

embe

r 198

6 fo

r bio

logi

cal a

nd g

enet

ican

alys

is.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; S

chul

tzIn

tern

atio

nal L

td. 1

974;

Rei

st 1

987;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

106

L)

FOR

T N

OR

MAN

Alfre

d La

keSe

e N

OR

MAN

WEL

LS--L

enni

e La

ke.

Bear

Roc

k La

ke(F

ish

Lake

)64

°59'

N, 1

25°4

0'W

A ba

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udy

of th

is la

ke w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. (L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973)

Big

Smith

Cre

ek64

°36'

N, 1

24°4

5'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of B

ig S

mith

Cre

ek w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

1-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line

and

Mac

kenz

ie H

ighw

ay s

tudi

es.

Wat

erfa

lls s

ituat

ed a

bout

6km

ups

tream

from

the

cree

k m

outh

and

3 m

in h

eigh

t app

ear t

o pr

even

t mov

emen

t of f

ish

from

the

Mac

kenz

ie R

iver

to th

e he

adw

ater

lake

s. T

he a

rea

belo

w th

e fa

lls is

a s

paw

ning

and

nurs

ery

area

for l

ake

chub

and

slim

y sc

ulpi

n. T

here

is a

maj

or A

rctic

gra

ylin

gsp

awni

ng a

nd fe

edin

g ar

ea a

bove

the

falls

. Sp

ecie

s re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1. (

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Sla

ney

and

Co.

Ltd

. 197

4; N

LUIS

96C

)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Blue

fish

Cre

ek64

°57'

N, 1

25°5

2'W

This

sm

all t

ribut

ary

of th

e M

acke

nzie

Riv

er w

as s

ampl

ed in

197

1 an

d 19

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e st

udie

s. T

he c

reek

is a

spa

wni

ng, n

urse

ry, a

nd o

verw

inte

ring

area

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, an

d sl

imy

scul

pin.

The

re is

a d

owns

tream

mov

emen

t of A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, c

isco

and

lake

whi

tefis

h fry

, and

adu

lt la

ke c

hub

and

slim

ysc

ulpi

n, fr

om B

luef

ish

Cre

ek in

to th

e M

acke

nzie

Riv

er d

urin

g Ju

ly a

nd A

ugus

t. A

rctic

gray

ling

tagg

ed a

t Thr

ee D

ay L

ake

(see

NO

RM

AN W

ELLS

) wer

e re

capt

ured

at t

he c

reek

mou

th b

y su

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

ters

who

fish

the

dow

nstre

am p

ost-s

paw

ning

mig

ratio

n.

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Nor

man

and

Nor

man

Wel

ls fi

sh fo

r sub

sist

ence

, mai

nly

in s

prin

g an

dsu

mm

er, a

t Blu

efis

h C

reek

. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g an

d w

hite

fish,

lake

trou

t, in

conn

u, a

nd b

urbo

tar

e th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d. (

Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; J

esso

p et

al.

1974

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

96C

).

Brac

kett

Lake

(Willo

w L

ake)

65°1

3'N

, 125

°20'

W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

2,8

0019

81--l

ake

whi

tefis

h 1,

200

kg;

1993

--NA;

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Nor

man

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce in

this

lake

on

the

Brac

kett

Riv

er s

yste

m in

the

fall

and

early

win

ter,

prim

arily

for w

hite

fish

spp.

. S

mal

l com

mer

cial

har

vest

s w

ere

repo

rted

in 1

975

and

1981

. (V

illier

s 19

68; B

isse

tt 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Yar

emch

uket

al.

1989

; DFO

199

5; N

LUIS

96F

)

Brac

kett

Riv

er65

°00'

N, 1

25°2

7'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of th

is tr

ibut

ary

of th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

1971

-74

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

Spe

cies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

edin

App

endi

x 1.

The

rive

r pro

vide

s sp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry h

abita

t for

a v

arie

ty o

f spe

cies

. R

esid

ents

of F

ort N

orm

an fi

sh fo

r sub

sist

ence

at i

ts m

outh

in la

te s

umm

er a

nd fa

ll.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

ndC

amer

on 1

980)

Car

cajo

u La

ke64

°40'

N, 1

27°5

2'W

This

hea

dwat

er la

ke o

n th

e Li

ttle

Keel

e R

iver

sys

tem

, a tr

ibut

ary

of th

e C

arca

jou

Riv

er,

supp

orts

pop

ulat

ions

of A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke tr

out,

and

whi

tefis

h. R

apid

s on

the

low

erre

ache

s of

the

Littl

e Ke

ele

Riv

er re

stric

t ups

tream

fish

mov

emen

t int

o th

e la

ke.

A la

ke o

nth

e Lo

on R

iver

sys

tem

is a

lso

nam

ed C

arca

jou

(see

FO

RT

GO

OD

HO

PE--C

arca

jou

Lake

). (N

LUIS

96D

)

Dah

adin

ni R

iver

63°5

9'N

, 124

°25'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

the

Dah

adin

ni R

iver

sys

tem

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1-72

for

the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. A

rctic

gra

ying

spa

wn

in th

e riv

er a

nd u

se it

as

a nu

rser

yar

ea.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; NLU

IS 9

5N)

Dal

Lak

e63

°07'

N, 1

26°3

0'W

A ba

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udy

of th

is la

ke o

n th

e R

edst

one

Riv

er w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

971-

73fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. T

he la

ke s

uppo

rts A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, D

olly

Var

den,

lake

trout

, lon

gnos

e su

cker

, and

whi

tefis

h. I

ts o

utle

t is

shal

low

and

inte

rmitt

ent,

limiti

ng o

rpe

rhap

s pr

even

ting

fish

pass

age.

See

als

o FO

RT

NO

RM

AN--R

edst

one

Riv

er.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

73; N

LUIS

95M

)

Dor

is L

ake

65°1

0'N

,128

°15'

Wla

ke tr

out +

lake

whi

tefis

h

300

This

lake

on

Virg

in C

reek

, a tr

ibut

ary

of th

e M

ount

ain

Riv

er, s

uppo

rts la

ke tr

out,

lake

whi

tefis

h, a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

. It

has

no re

cord

of c

omm

erci

al h

arve

st.

(NLU

IS 1

06H

)

Ekw

i Riv

er63

°55'

N, 1

28°2

3'W

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

are

thou

ght t

o sp

awn

in th

is a

rea

of th

e Ek

wi R

iver

, a tr

ibut

ary

of th

e Ke

ele

Riv

er.

The

Ekw

i als

o se

rves

as

a nu

rser

y ar

ea fo

r you

ng g

rayl

ing.

(N

LUIS

105

P)

Fall

Ston

e La

ke64

°38.

5'N

,125

°38'

WTh

is h

eadw

ater

lake

of t

he E

ast L

ittle

Bea

r Riv

er h

as b

een

fishe

d fo

r sub

sist

ence

inw

inte

r by

hunt

ers

and

trapp

ers

from

For

t Nor

man

, and

pos

sibl

y D

élin

e. (

NLU

IS 9

6C)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Fort

Nor

man

gene

ral a

rea

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Nor

man

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce y

ear-r

ound

in th

e M

acke

nzie

Riv

er n

ear

the

com

mun

ity, i

n th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er, a

nd in

man

y ot

her l

akes

and

rive

rs.

They

harv

este

d an

est

imat

ed 2

8,27

5 kg

of f

ish

in 1

961,

and

1,3

20 k

g in

197

2. I

ncon

nu a

ndla

rge,

nea

r-rip

e Ar

ctic

cis

co a

ppea

r ann

ually

in th

e ca

tche

s of

sub

sist

ence

har

vest

ers

atFo

rt N

orm

an in

late

Aug

ust.

McL

aren

Pla

nsea

rch

Cor

p. m

onito

red

the

subs

iste

nce

harv

est f

rom

27

Sept

embe

r to

15 O

ctob

er 1

985,

for t

he E

ndic

ott E

nviro

nmen

tal

Mon

itorin

g Pr

ogra

m.

In 1

995,

DFO

sur

veye

d co

mm

unity

resi

dent

s fo

r inf

orm

atio

n on

fishi

ng a

ctiv

ities

. N

eith

er s

tudy

est

imat

ed th

e to

tal a

nnua

l har

vest

. (S

incl

air e

t al.

1967

;Bi

sset

t 197

2; C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

198

0; N

elso

n et

al.

1987

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

1995

)

Gay

na R

iver

65°1

9'N

, 129

°30'

WTh

is tr

ibut

ary

of th

e M

ount

ain

Riv

er is

a n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g. A

dult

gray

ling

may

be

year

-roun

d re

side

nts

as tu

rbul

ence

in th

e lo

wer

reac

hes

of th

e riv

er m

ay li

mit

upst

ream

fish

acc

ess.

(N

LUIS

106

H)

God

lin L

ake

63°4

9'N

, 128

°47'

WIn

spr

ing,

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

mig

rate

into

the

God

lin L

akes

via

the

God

lin R

iver

, a tr

ibut

ary

ofth

e Ek

wi R

iver

, to

feed

dur

ing

the

sum

mer

. Th

e la

kes

are

thou

ght t

o be

too

shal

low

toov

erw

inte

r the

fish

, and

a fa

ll do

wns

tream

mig

ratio

n to

ove

rwin

terin

g ar

eas

on th

e Ke

ele

Riv

er is

like

ly.

(NLU

IS 1

05P)

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

See

Tabl

e 2.

Res

iden

ts o

f For

t Nor

man

occ

asio

nally

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce a

t Gre

at B

ear

Lake

. La

ke tr

out,

burb

ot, a

nd A

rctic

gra

ylin

g ar

e th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d. (

Tapt

una

and

Low

199

5)

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

64°5

5'N

, 125

°35'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s w

ere

cond

ucte

d on

the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

in 1

971-

74 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y Pi

pelin

e, 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

, and

in 1

981

for t

heIn

terp

rovi

ncia

l Pip

elin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1.

Spec

ies

dive

rsity

is g

reat

est a

t the

con

fluen

ce o

f the

Gre

at B

ear a

nd M

acke

nzie

Riv

ers,

>25

spec

ies,

and

leas

t at i

ts h

eadw

ater

s, 1

2-14

spe

cies

. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, n

orth

ern

pike

,lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, an

d ro

und

whi

tefis

h ar

e th

e m

ajor

fish

spe

cies

thro

ugho

ut th

e riv

er.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

wer

e ab

unda

nt in

mos

t sec

tions

of t

he ri

ver,

and

used

the

low

er 2

5 km

of

the

river

and

trib

utar

ies

upst

ream

of t

he B

rack

ett R

iver

as

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

as.

The

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

outfl

ow a

nd fi

rst 1

0 km

reac

h of

the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

pro

vide

impo

rtant

sum

mer

feed

ing

habi

tat f

or A

rctic

gra

ylin

g. P

ost-s

paw

ning

mig

rant

s fro

mSt

ewar

t and

Wol

verin

e cr

eeks

(see

bel

ow) h

ave

been

reca

ptur

ed in

this

are

a. I

ncon

nuan

d Ar

ctic

cis

co w

ere

only

foun

d in

the

fall

as fa

r ups

tream

as

St. C

harle

s R

apid

s. S

ome

Arct

ic c

isco

mig

rate

from

the

Mac

kenz

ie D

elta

ann

ually

to s

paw

n in

the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

or it

s tri

buta

ries.

The

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

is fi

shed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce y

ear-r

ound

, but

mai

nly

insu

mm

er, n

ear F

ort N

orm

an a

nd p

erio

dica

lly a

t the

mou

th o

f the

Bra

cket

t Riv

er d

urin

g th

ela

te s

umm

er a

nd fa

ll. W

hite

fish,

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

cis

co, a

nd in

conn

u ar

e th

e m

ost s

ough

taf

ter s

peci

es.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Lom

bard

Gro

upN

orth

Inc.

197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; J

esso

p et

al.

1974

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

ndC

amer

on 1

980;

McC

art 1

982;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5)

Jack

fish

Lake

64°4

8'N

, 125

°17'

WR

esid

ents

of F

ort N

orm

an fi

sh fo

r sub

sist

ence

yea

r-rou

nd a

t Jac

kfis

h La

ke.

Whi

tefis

han

d no

rther

n pi

ke a

re th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d. (

Tapt

una

and

Low

199

5)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Keel

e R

iver

63°4

5'N

, 127

°54'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

the

Keel

e R

iver

sys

tem

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

Spe

cies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

App

endi

x 1.

Th

e Ke

ele

Riv

er is

a n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g. O

ther

spe

cies

may

als

o ov

erw

inte

rin

its

deep

poo

ls.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74)

Kelly

Lak

e65

°21'

N, 1

26°0

0'W

This

lake

on

the

Loch

e R

iver

(65°

19'N

, 125

°43'

W),

a tri

buta

ry o

f the

Bra

cket

t Riv

er, i

sfis

hed

year

-roun

d fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

peop

le fr

om F

ort N

orm

an a

nd N

orm

an W

ells

,m

ainl

y fo

r whi

tefis

h, la

ke tr

out,

and

north

ern

pike

. An

gler

s al

so fl

y-in

to K

elly

Lak

e fro

mN

orm

an W

ells

to fi

sh fo

r lak

e tro

ut.

DFO

sam

pled

lake

whi

tefis

h fro

m th

is fi

sher

y in

1971

, and

from

the

lake

in F

ebru

ary

1974

. Fi

sh m

igra

tions

hav

e be

en re

porte

d be

twee

nKe

lly L

ake

and

the

num

erou

s la

kes

alon

g th

e Lo

che

Riv

er.

Res

iden

ts o

f Nor

man

Wel

lsre

cent

ly e

xpre

ssed

con

cern

that

the

lake

is b

eing

ove

rfish

ed.

(Villi

ers

1968

; Bis

sett

1972

; Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Jes

sop

and

Lille

y 19

75;

Tapt

una

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

96F

; D. G

rindl

ay a

nd G

. Low

, per

s. c

omm

.)

Lac

á Ja

cque

sSe

e FO

RT

GO

OD

HO

PE--L

ac á

Jac

ques

.

Lenn

ie L

ake

See

NO

RM

AN W

ELLS

--Len

nie

lake

.

Littl

e Be

ar R

iver

64°5

4'N

, 125

°54'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

the

Littl

e Be

ar R

iver

sys

tem

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1-72

for

the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1. T

he ri

ver i

s an

impo

rtant

nur

sery

are

a an

d pr

obab

le s

paw

ning

gro

und

for A

rctic

gray

ling,

bur

bot,

long

nose

suc

ker,

wal

leye

and

whi

tefis

h. T

he ri

ver i

s sw

ift fl

owin

g an

dsh

allo

w n

ear i

ts m

outh

and

con

sequ

ently

is s

eldo

m fi

shed

. (H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73)

Littl

e Sm

ith C

reek

64°2

9'N

, 124

°41'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

Litt

le S

mith

Cre

ek w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

2-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

The

cre

ek is

a s

paw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

burb

ot, l

ake

chub

, and

long

nose

suc

ker.

(Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Sla

ney

and

Co.

Ltd

. 197

4)

Mah

ony

Lake

65°3

0'N

, 125

°20'

Wla

ke tr

out +

lake

whi

tefis

h 4

,600

1993

--NA;

This

lake

on

the

Brac

kett

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed y

ear-r

ound

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of F

ort N

orm

an.

Spec

ies

harv

este

d in

clud

e w

hite

fish,

lake

trou

t, no

rther

n pi

ke, b

urbo

t,in

conn

u, w

alle

ye, a

nd s

ucke

r. N

o re

cord

of c

omm

erci

al h

arve

st.

(Villi

ers

1968

;Ya

rem

chuk

et a

l. 19

89; D

FO 1

995;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5)

Porc

upin

e R

iver

65°0

0'N

, 123

°40'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

this

trib

utar

y of

the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

was

con

duct

ed in

1971

-74

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

spaw

n in

the

river

and

use

itas

a n

urse

ry a

rea,

as

may

nor

ther

n pi

ke a

nd n

ines

pine

stic

kleb

ack.

Spe

cies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

App

endi

x 1.

(H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73; C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

198

0)

Red

ston

e R

iver

63°5

8'N

, 125

°00'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

the

Red

ston

e R

iver

sys

tem

, inc

ludi

ng D

al L

ake

(see

abo

ve),

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1-73

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

Spe

cies

repo

rted

from

this

syst

em a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1. I

n th

e fa

ll, th

e N

orth

Red

ston

e R

iver

(63°

38'N

,12

6°35

'W) i

s a

mig

ratio

n ro

ute

for m

ount

ain

whi

tefis

h. A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d lo

ngno

sesu

cker

ove

rwin

ter i

n th

e riv

er.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l.19

74; N

LUIS

95M

+N)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

St. C

harle

s C

reek

64°5

2'N

, 124

°58'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

Cha

rles

Cre

ek w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

971-

74 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ieVa

lley

pipe

line.

Spe

cies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

App

endi

x 1.

Arc

ticgr

aylin

g us

e th

e cr

eek

as a

spa

wni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea.

(H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

etal

. 197

3; J

esso

p an

d Li

lley

1975

)

Salin

e R

iver

64°1

8'N

, 124

°30'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Salin

e R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. T

he ri

ver i

s a

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

chu

b, lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, sl

imy

scul

pin,

and

whi

tefis

h. O

verw

inte

ring

habi

tat w

asfo

und

abou

t 8 k

m u

pstre

am fr

om th

e m

outh

. (S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; S

lane

yan

d C

o. L

td. 1

974)

Slat

er R

iver

64°5

8'N

, 126

°10'

WTh

is ri

ver p

rovi

des

nurs

ery

habi

tat f

or b

urbo

t, w

alle

ye a

nd w

hite

fish

and

may

be

asp

awni

ng a

rea

for l

ongn

ose

suck

er a

nd b

urbo

t. A

hea

dwat

er la

ke (6

4°52

'N, 1

26°3

2'W

)ha

s be

en fi

shed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

of F

ort N

orm

an.

(NLU

IS 9

6D)

Stew

art C

reek

See

NO

RM

AN W

ELLS

--Ste

war

t Cre

ek.

Stew

art L

ake

64°2

2'N

, 125

°18'

Wbr

oad

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

1990

--2 k

gTh

is la

ke o

n th

e Ke

ele

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

yea

r-rou

nd b

y re

side

nts

ofFo

rt N

orm

an, i

n su

mm

er a

nd fa

ll by

resi

dent

s of

Nor

man

Wel

ls, a

nd p

ossi

bly

also

by

resi

dent

s of

Dél

ine.

Lak

e tro

ut a

nd la

ke w

hite

fish

are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s ca

ught

. Th

e la

kew

as fi

shed

by

expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ries

in 1

987

and

1990

. D

FO o

btai

ned

sam

ples

from

the

Oct

ober

198

7 ha

rves

t. (M

cGow

an 1

989;

Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5;N

LUIS

96C

)

lake

trou

t

[200

]19

87--2

55 k

g;19

90--6

4 kg

lake

whi

tefis

h[2

00]

1987

--48

kg

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

a19

87--1

8 kg

;19

90--1

3 kg

Stic

k C

reek

65°0

2'N

, 124

°03'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

this

trib

utar

y of

the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

was

con

duct

ed in

197

2an

d 19

74 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. T

he c

reek

is a

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

ticgr

aylin

g an

d no

rther

n pi

ke.

(Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; J

esso

p an

d Li

lley

1975

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

ndC

amer

on 1

980;

NLU

IS 9

6F)

Taga

tui L

ake

64°5

7'N

, 125

°12'

Wla

ke w

hite

fish

90

0N

o re

porte

d co

mm

erci

al h

arve

st.

(Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

)

Tate

Lak

e64

°30'

N, 1

25°2

0'W

Res

iden

ts o

f Nor

man

Wel

ls a

nd F

ort N

orm

an fi

sh fo

r sub

sist

ence

at T

ate

Lake

insu

mm

er.

Whi

tefis

h, la

ke tr

out,

north

ern

pike

, and

bur

bot a

re h

arve

sted

. (T

aptu

na a

ndLo

w 1

995)

Thre

e D

ay L

ake

See

NO

RM

AN W

ELLS

--Thr

ee D

ay L

ake.

unna

med

cre

ek ("

C")

64°5

2'N

, 125

°06'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

this

cre

ek w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. (L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973)

unna

med

cre

ek ("

D")

64°5

3'N

, 125

°17'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

this

cre

ek w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. (L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

unna

med

cre

ek(M

ount

ain

Cre

ek)

65°0

4'N

, 124

°40'

W

A ba

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udy

of th

is tr

ibut

ary

of th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

974

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

(C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

198

0)

unna

med

cre

ek(S

teep

Cre

ek o

rBi

rch

Isla

nd C

reek

)64

°12'

N, 1

24°2

1'W

A ba

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udy

of S

teep

Cre

ek w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Valle

y pi

pelin

e. T

he c

reek

pro

vide

s sp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry h

abita

t for

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

and

over

win

terin

g ha

bita

t for

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

and

slim

y sc

ulpi

n. (

McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Sla

ney

and

Co.

Ltd

. 197

4)

unna

med

lake

63°3

0.5'

N,1

26°4

5'W

In th

e pa

st th

is la

ke w

as a

wel

l-use

d su

bsis

tenc

e fis

hery

by

peop

le n

ow li

ving

in F

ort

Nor

man

. (N

LUIS

95M

)

unna

med

lake

63°4

0'N

, 126

°45'

WIn

the

past

this

lake

was

a w

ell-u

sed

subs

iste

nce

fishe

ry b

y pe

ople

now

livi

ng in

For

tN

orm

an.

(NLU

IS 9

5M)

Willo

w L

ake

See

FOR

T N

OR

MAN

--Bra

cket

t Lak

e.

Wol

verin

e C

reek

65°0

3'N

, 124

°17'

WTh

is tr

ibut

ary

of th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

For

tN

orm

an in

sum

mer

, fal

l, an

d ea

rly w

inte

r. In

197

4, D

FO e

rect

ed a

fenc

e an

d tra

p to

coun

t the

pos

t-spa

wni

ng d

owns

tream

mig

ratio

n of

fish

in th

e cr

eek.

Bet

wee

n 12

Jun

ean

d 8

July

, 8,9

73 A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, 5

91 lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, an

d 68

nor

ther

n pi

ke p

asse

ddo

wns

tream

. D

FO ta

gged

1,7

33 g

rayl

ing

and

186

long

nose

suc

kers

. Ba

sed

on fi

eld

obse

rvat

ions

and

tag

reco

verie

s by

spo

rt an

gler

s (2

2 in

197

4) th

e G

reat

Bea

r Lak

eou

tflow

and

the

uppe

r 10

km o

f the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

app

ear t

o be

maj

or s

umm

erin

gha

bita

t for

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

from

this

sys

tem

. (M

iller 1

946;

Bis

sett

1972

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

ndC

amer

on 1

980)

Wrig

ley

Lake

(Dru

m L

ake)

63°5

1'N

, 126

°10'

W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

1,7

00Su

bsis

tenc

e:19

70--1

,136

kg;

In th

e pa

st, r

esid

ents

of F

ort N

orm

an li

ved

year

roun

d in

this

are

a an

d fis

hed

for

subs

iste

nce

in th

is la

ke o

n th

e R

edst

one

Riv

er in

Aug

ust a

nd S

epte

mbe

r. D

rum

Lak

eLo

dge

(63°

52'N

, 126

°16'

W),

has

oper

ated

a s

port

fishe

ry o

n th

e la

ke s

ince

the

1970

's.

The

lodg

e ha

s 33

gue

st b

eds

and

oper

ates

from

mid

-Jun

e to

the

end

of S

epte

mbe

r. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, D

olly

Var

den,

and

lake

trou

t are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s so

ught

. D

FO s

ampl

edth

e la

ke in

196

8, d

urin

g th

e Ba

rren

Gro

unds

Sur

vey.

In

sprin

g, A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

dlo

ngno

se s

ucke

r mig

rate

into

the

tribu

tary

stre

ams

of W

rigle

y La

ke (6

3°56

'N, 1

26°1

6'W

;63

°48.

5'N

, 126

°25'

W) t

o sp

awn.

The

lake

out

let i

s a

nurs

ery

area

for l

ake

chub

and

long

nose

suc

ker.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Mos

henk

o 19

80; N

LUIS

95M

; D. G

rindl

ay, p

ers.

com

m.)

Yello

w L

ake

64°4

2'N

, 125

°43'

WTh

is h

eadw

ater

lake

of t

he E

ast L

ittle

Bea

r Riv

er is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

in s

umm

er a

nd

win

ter r

esid

ents

of F

ort N

orm

an, a

nd p

ossi

bly

Dél

ine.

(Ta

ptun

a an

d Lo

w 1

995;

NLU

IS96

C)

NO

RM

AN W

ELLS

Alfre

d La

keSe

e be

low

Len

nie

Lake

.

Billy

Cre

ekBi

lly C

reek

was

sam

pled

in 1

981

for t

he N

orm

an W

ells

Oilf

ield

Exp

ansi

on P

roje

ct.

(Env

iroco

n Lt

d. 1

981)

Blue

fish

Cre

ekSe

e FO

RT

NO

RM

AN--B

luef

ish

Cre

ek.

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Bosw

orth

Cre

ek65

°19'

N, 1

26°5

3'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of B

osw

orth

Cre

ek w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

2-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

and

197

3 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie H

ighw

ay.

Ther

e is

a m

inor

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

and

suck

ers

near

the

cree

k m

outh

. Sp

ring

fed

area

s of

the

cree

k re

mai

n op

en in

win

ter a

nd m

ay p

rovi

de o

verw

inte

ring

habi

tat f

orfis

h. F

ish

Lake

(65°

18'N

, 126

°39'

W) o

n Bo

swor

th C

reek

is a

pop

ular

recr

eatio

n ar

ea fo

rre

side

nts

of N

orm

an W

ells

. Su

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

ters

from

the

com

mun

ity h

arve

st b

urbo

tfro

m th

e cr

eek

in fa

ll an

d w

inte

r.

(Lom

bard

Nor

th G

roup

Ltd

. 197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73;

McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

96E

)

Can

yon

Cre

ek65

°14'

N, 1

26°3

1'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of C

anyo

n C

reek

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

972-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e an

d 19

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie H

ighw

ay.

The

cree

k is

asp

awni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d la

ke c

hub.

(Lo

mba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

)

Ellio

t Cre

ek65

°32'

N, 1

27°3

7'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of E

lliot C

reek

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

972-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ieVa

lley

pipe

line,

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

, and

in 1

981

for t

he N

orm

an W

ells

Oilf

ield

Exp

ansi

on P

roje

ct.

The

cree

k is

a s

paw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

chu

b, a

nd s

limy

scul

pin.

It h

as a

reas

of o

pen

wat

er in

win

ter t

hat m

ay p

rovi

deov

erw

inte

ring

habi

tat f

or fi

sh.

(Lom

bard

Nor

th G

roup

Ltd

. 197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et

al. 1

974;

Env

iroco

n Lt

d. 1

981)

Flor

ence

Lak

e65

°09'

N, 1

28°0

8'W

Res

iden

ts o

f Nor

man

Wel

ls h

arve

st la

ke tr

out a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

for s

ubsi

sten

ce fr

om th

isla

ke o

n Vi

rgin

Cre

ek, a

trib

utar

y of

the

Mou

ntai

n R

iver

, in

win

ter.

(Tap

tuna

and

Low

1995

; NLU

IS 1

06H

)

Fran

cis

Cre

ek65

°13'

N, 1

26°2

7'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of F

ranc

is C

reek

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

972-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ieVa

lley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. (L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

)

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

See

Tabl

e 2.

Res

iden

ts o

f Nor

man

Wel

ls h

arve

st la

ke tr

out,

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing,

and

whi

tefis

h fo

r sub

sist

ence

yea

r-rou

nd, b

ut m

ainl

y in

sum

mer

, at G

reat

Bea

r lak

e.

(Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5)

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

See

FOR

T N

OR

MAN

--Gre

at B

ear R

iver

. R

esid

ents

of N

orm

an W

ells

har

vest

Arc

ticgr

aylin

g an

d la

ke tr

out a

t Ben

nett

Fiel

d (6

5°02

'N, 1

24°4

0'W

) in

sum

mer

and

fall.

(T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995)

Han

na R

iver

65°4

0'N

, 128

°07'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Han

na R

iver

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie V

alle

y pi

pelin

e. S

peci

es re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

in A

ppen

dix

1.

The

river

is a

spa

wni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d sl

imy

scul

pins

. Ar

eas

ofth

e riv

er th

at re

mai

n op

en d

urin

g th

e w

inte

r may

pro

vide

ove

rwin

terin

g ha

bita

t for

fish

es.

(Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74)

Hel

ava

Cre

ek65

°12'

N, 1

26°2

4'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of H

elav

a C

reek

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

972-

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ieVa

lley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. Th

e cr

eek

is a

spa

wni

ng a

ndnu

rser

y ar

ea fo

r lak

e ch

ub a

nd s

limy

scul

pin.

(Lo

mba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973;

Sho

tton

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Jung

le R

idge

Cre

ek65

°02'

N, 1

26°0

0'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of J

ungl

e R

idge

Cre

ek w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

2-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. Th

e cr

eek

is a

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

a fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

slim

y sc

ulpi

n, a

nd s

ucke

r. (L

omba

rdN

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973;

McC

art e

t al.

1974

)

Kelly

Lak

eSe

e FO

RT

NO

RM

AN--K

elly

Lak

e.

Lenn

ie L

ake

(Alfr

ed L

ake)

65°3

4'N

, 126

°33'

W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

2,8

0019

83--2

00 k

g;19

91--N

F;19

93--N

A;

This

lake

on

the

Brac

kett

Riv

er s

yste

m is

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

yea

r-rou

nd, b

ut m

ostly

insu

mm

er a

nd fa

ll, b

y re

side

nts

of N

orm

an W

ells

. W

hite

fish,

lake

trou

t, an

d no

rther

n pi

kear

e th

e m

ain

spec

ies

harv

este

d. T

he o

nly

repo

rted

com

mer

cial

har

vest

from

this

lake

was

in 1

983.

It w

as o

pene

d fo

r com

mer

cial

fish

ing

in 1

991

and

1993

, but

no

harv

est w

asre

porte

d. C

onfu

sion

exi

sts

in th

e lit

erat

ure

with

resp

ect t

o th

e na

me

of th

is la

ke, w

hich

has

been

refe

rred

to in

terc

hang

eabl

y as

Len

nie

Lake

or A

lfred

Lak

e. R

esid

ents

of

Nor

man

Wel

ls re

cent

ly e

xpre

ssed

con

cern

that

the

lake

is b

eing

ove

rfish

ed. (

Yare

mch

uket

al.

1989

; DFO

199

3, 1

995;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

. Rob

inso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

Loon

Cre

ek65

°10'

N, 1

26°5

5'W

This

cre

ek is

a n

urse

ry a

rea

for b

road

and

lake

whi

tefis

h. (

NLU

IS 9

6E)

Mirr

or L

ake

64°5

1'N

, 126

°55'

WR

esid

ents

of N

orm

an W

ells

har

vest

lake

trou

t and

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om th

is la

ke in

win

ter

for s

ubsi

sten

ce.

(Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5)

Moo

n La

ke65

°38'

N, 1

27°2

9'W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

[50

0]19

82--N

F;M

oon

Lake

on

the

Han

na R

iver

sys

tem

has

bee

n fis

hed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y re

side

nts

ofFo

rt G

ood

Hop

e an

d N

orm

an W

ells

in s

uppo

rt of

win

ter t

rapp

ing

activ

ities

. W

hite

fish

are

the

mai

n fis

h so

ught

. M

oon

Lake

was

sam

pled

in 1

972

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

The

re is

a g

rayl

ing

spaw

ning

and

rear

ing

area

and

pos

sibl

e ro

und

whi

tefis

hsp

awni

ng s

ite a

t the

lake

out

let.

An

expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ry li

cenc

ed fo

r the

lake

in 1

982,

did

not t

ake

plac

e. (

McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; NLU

IS 9

6E)

Nor

man

Wel

lsge

nera

l are

aR

esid

ents

of N

orm

an W

ells

fish

the

Mac

kenz

ie R

iver

nea

r the

com

mun

ity y

ear-r

ound

, but

mai

nly

in s

umm

er.

In 1

971,

live

r and

mus

cle

tissu

e fro

m a

var

iety

of f

ish

spec

ies

wer

ean

alyz

ed fo

r hea

vy m

etal

and

chl

orin

ated

hyd

roca

rbon

con

tam

inat

ion.

Res

iden

ts o

f the

com

mun

ity h

ave

expr

esse

d co

ncer

n th

at p

ollu

tion

may

be

affe

ctin

g th

eir f

ishi

ng.

Inre

spon

se, D

FO a

nd o

ther

s ha

ve u

nder

take

n a

num

ber o

f pol

lutio

n-re

late

d st

udie

sdo

wns

tream

from

Nor

man

Wel

ls to

add

ress

thes

e co

ncer

ns (S

ee T

able

4).

In 1

972-

74,

DFO

tagg

ed 4

,687

fish

of a

var

iety

of s

peci

es in

the

Nor

man

Wel

ls a

rea

to fo

llow

thei

rm

ovem

ents

. In

199

5, D

FO s

urve

yed

com

mun

ity re

side

nts

for i

nfor

mat

ion

on th

eir

subs

iste

nce

harv

estin

g ac

tiviti

es.

They

did

not

est

imat

e th

e to

tal a

nnua

l har

vest

. (H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74; J

esso

p an

d Li

lley

1975

;Ta

ptun

a an

d Lo

w 1

995)

Not

a C

reek

and

Lak

e65

°05'

N, 1

25°5

9'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of th

e N

ota

Cre

ek s

yste

m w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

2-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

The

cre

ek is

a m

ajor

spa

wni

ng a

nd n

urse

ry a

rea

for A

rctic

gray

ling

and

slim

y sc

ulpi

n. I

t is

also

an

impo

rtant

mig

ratio

n ro

ute

for j

uven

ile a

nd a

dult

gray

ling

and

adul

t lak

e ch

ub.

Not

a La

ke (6

5°04

'N, 1

25°5

6'W

) was

als

o sa

mpl

ed d

urin

gth

ese

stud

ies.

(Sh

otto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Osc

ar C

reek

65°2

7'N

, 127

°22'

WR

esid

ents

of N

orm

an W

ells

har

vest

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, w

alle

ye, a

nd b

urbo

tfro

m O

scar

Cre

ek in

spr

ing

and

sum

mer

for s

ubsi

sten

ce.

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

ofth

e O

scar

Cre

ek s

yste

m w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

1-74

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

in19

73 fo

r the

Mac

kenz

ie H

ighw

ay, a

nd in

198

1 fo

r the

Nor

man

Wel

ls O

ilfie

ld E

xpan

sion

Proj

ect.

The

inte

nsiv

e 19

73-4

sur

vey

incl

uded

a fi

sh fe

nce

and

tagg

ing

prog

ram

. Th

ecr

eek

is a

mig

ratio

n ro

ute

for a

var

iety

of s

peci

es.

Its lo

wer

reac

hes

prov

ide

spaw

ning

habi

tat f

or A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, no

rther

n pi

ke, w

alle

ye, a

nd p

ossi

bly

othe

rsp

ecie

s. T

he c

reek

mou

th is

an

impo

rtant

nur

sery

are

a fo

r whi

tefis

h. T

here

is o

pen

wat

er in

win

ter a

nd it

is a

n ov

erw

inte

ring

area

for b

urbo

t, ni

nesp

ine

stic

kleb

ack,

nor

ther

npi

ke, a

nd p

erha

ps o

ther

spe

cies

. Sp

ecie

s re

porte

d fro

m th

is s

yste

m a

re li

sted

inAp

pend

ix 1

. (H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1973

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973;

Shot

ton

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; J

esso

p an

d Li

lley

1975

; Env

iroco

nLt

d. 1

981;

Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; K

. Cha

ng-K

ue, p

ers.

com

m.)

Proh

ibiti

on C

reek

65°1

0'N

, 126

°18'

WBa

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udie

s of

the

Proh

ibiti

on C

reek

sys

tem

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

972-

73 fo

rth

e M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. Th

is s

mal

lst

ream

sup

ports

spa

wni

ng p

opul

atio

ns o

f Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

and

slim

y sc

ulpi

n, a

nd is

an

impo

rtant

nur

sery

are

a fo

r whi

tefis

h sp

p..

Parts

of t

he s

tream

are

spr

ing-

fed

and

flow

thro

ugho

ut th

e w

inte

r. A

det

aile

d st

udy

of th

e st

ream

sed

imen

ts, w

ater

che

mis

try a

ndzo

oben

thos

was

con

duct

ed in

197

2. (

Lom

bard

Nor

th G

roup

Ltd

. 197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73;

Stei

n et

al.

1973

; McC

art a

nd d

eGra

ff 19

74; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74)

Sam

McR

ae L

ake

See

FOR

T G

OO

D H

OPE

--Sam

McR

ae L

ake.

Stew

art C

reek

65°1

1'N

, 126

°40'

WSt

ewar

t Cre

ek, w

hich

dra

ins

Thre

e D

ay L

ake

(see

bel

ow),

was

sam

pled

in 1

972-

74 fo

rth

e M

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

It i

s a

whi

tefis

h nu

rser

y ar

ea a

nd a

mig

ratio

n ro

ute

for a

varie

ty o

f spe

cies

, par

ticul

arly

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing.

Res

iden

ts o

f Nor

man

Wel

ls fi

sh fo

rsu

bsis

tenc

e at

the

cree

k m

outh

. Th

e cr

eek

mou

th h

as a

lso

been

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

by h

arve

ster

s fro

m F

ort N

orm

an.

Spec

ies

repo

rted

from

this

sys

tem

are

list

ed in

Appe

ndix

1.

(Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74; J

esso

p an

d Li

lley

1975

; K. C

hang

-Ku

e, p

ers.

com

m.;

NLU

IS 9

6E)

Stew

art L

ake

See

FOR

T N

OR

MAN

--Ste

war

t Lak

e.

Tate

Lak

eSe

e FO

RT

NO

RM

AN--T

ate

Lake

.

Thre

e D

ay L

ake

65°0

9'N

, 126

°45'

WIn

May

and

Jun

e of

197

2-74

, DFO

tagg

ed 2

,821

pos

t-spa

wni

ng A

rctic

gra

ylin

g as

they

ran

dow

nstre

am in

Ste

war

t Cre

ek (s

ee a

bove

) out

of T

hree

Day

Lak

e. T

agge

d fis

h w

ere

reca

ptur

ed in

late

Jun

e an

d Ju

ly b

y su

bsis

tenc

e fis

herie

s at

the

mou

ths

of S

tew

art a

ndBl

uefis

h cr

eeks

(see

abo

ve) a

nd a

t Nor

man

Wel

ls, a

nd b

y sp

ort a

nd s

ubsi

sten

cefis

herie

s in

the

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

in la

te s

umm

er a

nd fa

ll. T

hese

retu

rns

dem

onst

rate

an

annu

al p

rogr

essi

ve m

ovem

ent o

f pos

t-spa

wne

rs fr

om T

hree

Day

Lak

e to

war

ds th

e G

reat

Bear

Riv

er (s

ee F

OR

T N

OR

MAN

) and

ups

tream

to th

e ou

tlet o

f Gre

at B

ear L

ake.

DFO

did

not f

ind

suita

ble

over

win

terin

g ha

bita

t in

Thre

e D

ay L

ake,

and

sug

gest

ed th

at th

ese

fish

may

ove

rwin

ter i

n th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er.

Whi

le g

rayl

ing

retu

rn a

nnua

lly to

Thr

ee D

ayLa

ke a

fter i

ce b

reak

-up

in M

ay, t

he d

egre

e of

thei

r site

fid

elity

is u

nkno

wn.

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

spaw

n in

Gus

Cre

ek, a

trib

utar

y of

the

lake

. G

rayl

ing

tagg

ed a

t Thr

ee D

ay L

ake

have

bee

n re

capt

ured

in s

prin

g sp

awni

ng ru

ns a

t the

Don

nelly

Riv

er

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Thre

e D

ay L

ake

--con

tinue

d.(s

ee F

OR

T G

OO

D H

OPE

), a

dow

nstre

am tr

ibut

ary

of th

e M

acke

nzie

Riv

er, a

nd in

Wol

verin

e C

reek

, a tr

ibut

ary

of th

e G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er.

Post

-spa

wni

ng lo

ngno

se s

ucke

rta

gged

in th

e la

ke h

ave

been

reca

ptur

ed a

t Blu

efis

h C

reek

. R

esid

ents

of N

orm

an W

ells

harv

est A

rctic

gra

ylin

g fro

m T

hree

Day

Lak

e in

sum

mer

for s

ubsi

sten

ce.

The

lake

has

also

bee

n fis

hed

for s

ubsi

sten

ce b

y ha

rves

ters

from

For

t Nor

man

. (S

tein

et a

l. 19

73;

Jess

op e

t al.

1974

; Jes

sop

and

Lille

y 19

75; C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

198

0; T

aptu

na a

ndLo

w 1

995;

NLU

IS 9

6E).

Trap

per C

reek

65°3

2'N

, 127

°55'

WA

base

line

fishe

ries

stud

y of

this

cre

ek w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

981

for t

he N

orm

an W

ells

Oilf

ield

Exp

ansi

on P

roje

ct.

(Env

iroco

n Lt

d. 1

981;

NLU

IS 9

6E)

Turto

n La

ke65

°48'

N, 1

26°5

5'W

Res

iden

ts o

f Nor

man

Wel

ls h

arve

st la

ke tr

out,

north

ern

pike

, and

whi

tefis

h fo

rsu

bsis

tenc

e ye

ar-ro

und

from

this

hea

dwat

er la

ke o

n th

e H

are

Indi

an R

iver

sys

tem

. (T

aptu

na a

nd L

ow 1

995)

Twen

tyfiv

e M

ile L

ake

65°0

0'N

, 126

°58'

WTh

is h

eadw

ater

lake

of T

wen

tyfiv

e M

ile C

reek

, a tr

ibut

ary

of th

e C

arca

jou

Riv

er is

fish

edfo

r sub

sist

ence

by

resi

dent

s of

Nor

man

Wel

ls.

(Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5; N

LUIS

96E

)

unna

med

cre

ek(G

ordo

n C

reek

)65

°54'

N, 1

27°4

8'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of th

is u

nnam

ed c

reek

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

973

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line.

The

cre

ek p

rovi

des

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

hab

itat f

or A

rctic

gray

ling,

long

nose

suc

ker,

and

north

ern

pike

. (M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74)

unna

med

lake

s(N

eckl

ace

Lake

s)65

°22'

N, 1

27°0

9'W

A ba

selin

e fis

herie

s st

udy

of th

e N

eckl

ace

Lake

s w

as c

ondu

cted

in 1

973

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. (L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973)

Verm

ilion

Cre

ek65

°07'

N, 1

26°0

0'W

Base

line

fishe

ries

stud

ies

of V

erm

ilion

Cre

ek w

ere

cond

ucte

d in

197

2-73

for t

heM

acke

nzie

Val

ley

pipe

line,

and

in 1

973

for t

he M

acke

nzie

Hig

hway

. Th

e riv

er m

outh

is a

spaw

ning

and

rear

ing

area

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke c

hub,

long

nose

suc

ker,

slim

y sc

ulpi

n,an

d w

hite

fish

spp.

Spr

ing

fed

area

s of

the

river

pro

vide

ove

rwin

terin

g ha

bita

t for

juve

nile

gray

ling.

(H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; L

omba

rd N

orth

Gro

up L

td. 1

973;

Ste

inet

al.

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

)

CO

PPER

MIN

E R

IVER

DR

AIN

AGE

BAS

IN

Kam

ut L

ake

66°4

3'N

, 116

°22'

WA

surv

ey g

illnet

fish

ery

of th

is la

ke in

the

Cop

perm

ine

Riv

er d

rain

age

basi

n, in

197

7,ca

ught

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trou

t, an

d la

ke w

hite

fish.

Sev

eral

of t

he la

ke w

hite

fish

wer

e in

spaw

ning

con

ditio

n on

18

Augu

st 1

977.

(St

ewar

t and

Mac

Don

ald

1978

)

HO

RN

ADAY

RIV

ER D

RAI

NAG

E B

ASIN

Hor

nada

y R

iver

67°4

4'N

, 120

°57'

WIn

197

5, a

sur

vey

sein

e fis

hery

cau

ght n

ines

pine

stic

kleb

ack

and

imm

atur

e Ar

ctic

gray

ling

in th

e he

adw

ater

s of

the

Hor

nada

y R

iver

. (S

uthe

rland

and

Goh

lke

1978

)

NAH

ANN

I RIV

ER D

RAI

NAG

E B

ASIN

Sout

h N

ahan

ni R

iver

62°3

0'N

, 128

°41'

WTh

e So

uth

Nah

anni

Riv

er s

uppo

rts p

opul

atio

ns o

f Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

Dol

ly V

arde

n, lo

ngno

sesu

cker

, and

mou

ntai

n w

hite

fish.

Spa

wni

ng m

ay o

ccur

in th

e riv

er a

nd in

man

y of

its

tribu

tarie

s. (

NLU

IS 1

05I)

Tabl

e 1.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2H

ARVE

ST (k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

O'G

rady

Lak

e63

°00'

N, 1

29°0

1'W

This

hea

dwat

er la

ke o

f the

Sou

th N

ahan

ni R

iver

sup

ports

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

and

lake

trou

t. (N

LUIS

105

I)

1 Old

or a

ltern

ate

nam

es fo

r the

fish

erie

s ar

e sh

own

in b

rack

ets.

2 A ro

und

wei

ght (

kg rd

wt)

is th

at fo

r a w

hole

fish

, whi

le a

dre

ssed

wei

ght i

s th

at o

f a fi

sh w

ith th

e vi

scer

a an

d gi

lls re

mov

ed.

Squa

re b

rack

ets

indi

cate

pro

visi

onal

test

quot

as.

The

quot

a ye

ars

are

the

sam

e as

the

fede

ral g

over

nmen

t fis

cal y

ear (

e.g.

the

1995

quo

ta e

xten

ds fr

om 1

Apr

il 19

95 to

31

Mar

ch 1

996)

. "N

A" in

dica

tes

that

aha

rves

t may

hav

e ta

ken

plac

e bu

t tha

t no

data

are

ava

ilabl

e; "N

F" in

dica

tes

that

a w

ater

body

was

ope

ned

for f

ishi

ng b

y Va

riatio

n O

rder

but

was

not

fish

ed.

3 Unl

ess

othe

rwis

e no

ted

the

harv

ests

wer

e ta

ken

by c

omm

erci

al fi

sher

ies.

The

"sub

sist

ence

har

vest

s" w

ere

take

n by

resi

dent

s fo

r the

ir ow

n us

e, "e

xper

imen

tal h

arve

sts"

(form

erly

kno

wn

as e

xplo

rato

ry o

r tes

t fis

herie

s) w

ere

take

n fo

r sci

entif

ic p

urpo

ses,

and

the

"spo

rt ha

rves

ts" w

ere

take

n by

ang

lers

.

Tabl

e 2.

Har

vest

s of

fish

es fr

om G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e, N

WT.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

DEA

SE A

RM

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--1,0

28 fi

sh;

1989

--561

fish

;19

90--2

61 fi

shEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

84--3

fish

;

Res

iden

ts o

f Dél

ine

have

fish

ed fo

r sub

sist

ence

in C

lear

wat

er B

ay a

nd o

ther

shel

tere

d ba

ys n

ear C

ape

Mac

Don

nel,

the

mou

th o

f the

Blo

ody

Riv

er, a

nd a

t the

head

of D

ease

Arm

. In

som

e ye

ars,

larg

e qu

antit

ies

of fi

sh w

ere

sent

bac

k to

Dél

ine

from

fall

fish

cam

ps a

long

the

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

shor

elin

e. N

o es

timat

es o

f pas

t or

curre

nt s

ubsi

sten

ce h

arve

sts

wer

e lo

cate

d. G

uest

s of

Plu

mm

er's

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

Lodg

e an

gle

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trou

t, la

ke w

hite

fish,

and

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om D

ease

Arm

(Fig

. 3+4

). E

stim

ates

of t

he s

port

harv

est o

f lak

e tro

ut w

ere

gene

rate

d by

DFO

from

thei

r cre

el c

ensu

ses

of lo

dge

gues

ts in

197

2, 1

973,

197

7 an

d 19

84, a

nd fr

omth

eir a

ngle

r dia

ry p

rogr

am in

198

8-90

. D

ata

from

the

1987

ang

ler d

iary

pro

gram

are

not i

nclu

ded

here

due

to th

e lo

w re

spon

se ra

te (9

%).

C

reel

cen

sus

data

from

the

spor

t lod

ge a

re s

umm

ariz

ed in

Tab

le 4

. D

FO c

ondu

cted

exp

erim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

ies

in D

ease

Arm

in 1

973

and

1984

. Th

e la

tter f

ishe

ry s

ampl

ed A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

keci

sco,

lake

trou

t, la

ke w

hite

fish,

and

roun

d w

hite

fish

for d

ata

on g

row

th, r

epro

duct

ion,

diet

, and

cat

ch-e

ffort.

Bet

wee

n 19

73 a

nd 1

984,

the

harv

est a

nd b

iolo

gica

l dat

a sh

owa

decl

ine

in th

e m

ean

leng

th a

nd a

ge o

f lak

e tro

ut c

augh

t by

the

fishe

ry, a

dec

line

inth

e av

aila

bilit

y of

trou

t >30

yr o

f age

, and

an

incr

ease

in th

e in

stan

tane

ous

tota

lm

orta

lity

rate

. Th

ese

are

indi

catio

ns o

f a fi

shin

g do

wn

of th

e st

andi

ng s

tock

of l

ake

trout

in D

ease

Arm

, and

als

o th

at th

e tro

ut p

opul

atio

n ha

d no

t yet

sta

biliz

ed a

nd w

asco

ntin

uing

to d

eclin

e--d

espi

te th

e lo

wer

har

vest

in 1

984.

In

1988

, D

FOre

com

men

ded

that

spo

rt fis

herm

en ta

ke n

o m

ore

than

2,0

00 la

ke tr

out a

nnua

lly(T

AH2 ) f

rom

Dea

se A

rm, i

n to

ord

er s

tabi

lize

the

popu

latio

n an

d to

sus

tain

the

troph

yfis

hery

. (F

alk

and

Dah

lke

1974

; Fal

k et

al.

1974

c, 1

975;

Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

1983

; Yar

emch

uk 1

986;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n 19

88; C

lark

e et

al.

1989

; Dun

n an

dR

ober

ge 1

989;

And

erso

n an

d Th

omps

on 1

991;

NLU

IS M

aps

86L

and

96I;

L.An

ders

on, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

cis

co--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--1 fi

sh;

1984

--20

fish;

lake

trou

t--n

o co

mm

erci

alqu

ota,

reco

mm

ende

dTA

H o

f 2,0

00 fi

sh p

erye

ar b

y tro

phy

fishe

ries

Spor

t har

vest

:19

72--6

,828

fish

(24,

581

kg);

1973

--5,4

94 fi

sh (1

8,78

1 kg

);19

77--3

,413

fish

(13,

072

kg);

1984

--3,9

32 fi

sh;

1988

--1,9

03 fi

sh;

1989

--1,3

11 fi

sh;

1990

--861

fish

;Ex

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

84--2

76 fi

sh (6

35 k

g);

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1984

--49

fish;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--11

fish;

1989

--8 fi

sh;

1990

--44

fish;

roun

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

73--4

fish

(1.8

kg)

;19

84--3

fish

;

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

KEI

TH A

RM

--exp

erim

enta

llic

ence

incl

udes

wat

ers

wes

t of F

oxPo

int (

62°2

1'N

,12

2°45

'W) a

ndM

anito

u Is

land

(65°

02'N

, 122

°17'

W)

but e

xclu

ding

the

spec

ial h

arve

stin

gar

ea, e

ffect

ive

1994

seas

on.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSu

bsis

tenc

e ha

vest

:19

93--7

0 fis

h;In

194

4, th

e an

nual

sub

sist

ence

har

vest

of f

ish

by re

side

nts

of D

élin

e (F

ort F

rank

lin)

from

Kei

th A

rm w

as e

stim

ated

at 2

20,0

00 k

g; in

196

1 at

117

,360

kg;

and

, in

1973

at

22,6

50 k

g. I

n 19

77, t

he to

tal s

ubsi

sten

ce h

arve

st o

f fis

h fro

m G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e as

aw

hole

was

est

imat

ed a

t bet

wee

n 60

,000

and

84,

300

kg.

Lake

trou

t mad

e up

abo

ut37

% o

f thi

s ha

rves

t, la

ke c

isco

31%

, whi

tefis

h 26

%, a

nd A

rctic

gra

ylin

g 6%

. In

194

4-5,

the

fishe

ry w

as m

ainl

y co

nduc

ted

in s

umm

er a

nd m

ost f

ish

wer

e us

ed to

feed

the

appr

oxim

atel

y 60

0 do

gs.

His

toric

ally

, the

sum

mer

sub

sist

ence

fish

ery

for c

isco

sp.

has

been

unr

elia

ble,

with

larg

e flu

ctua

tions

in th

e an

nual

har

vest

. In

197

9, D

FOsa

mpl

ed la

ke tr

out t

aken

by

subs

iste

nce

fishe

rmen

in th

e vi

cini

ty o

f Dél

ine

for d

ata

onth

eir g

row

th a

nd s

exua

l mat

urity

. N

o es

timat

e of

the

subs

iste

nce

harv

est w

as g

iven

. Ex

perim

enta

l fis

herie

s ha

ve b

een

cond

ucte

d in

Kei

th A

rm a

nnua

lly s

ince

199

0. T

helo

w h

arve

sts

betw

een

1990

and

199

3 re

flect

the

loca

l mar

ket f

or fi

sh, n

ot th

eir

catc

habi

lity.

In

1988

, Lut

ra A

ssoc

iate

s Lt

d. s

urve

yed

resi

dent

s of

Dél

ine

for

info

rmat

ion

on th

eir s

ubsi

sten

ce fi

shin

g ac

tiviti

es.

DFO

als

o co

llect

ed d

ata

on th

esu

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

t fro

m 1

-31

Augu

st 1

993.

Nei

ther

stu

dy e

stim

ated

the

tota

l ann

ual

subs

iste

nce

harv

est o

f fis

h by

the

com

mun

ity.

Spec

ific

area

s of

Kei

th A

rm a

redi

scus

sed

belo

w.

(Mille

r 194

7; S

incl

air e

t al.

1967

; Bis

sett

1972

; Rus

hfor

th 1

976;

Gut

tman

197

3 ci

ted

in H

all 1

978;

Fal

k et

al.

1982

; Lut

ra A

ssoc

iate

s Lt

d. 1

988;

Raw

son

Acad

emy

of A

quat

ic S

cien

ce 1

990;

DFO

199

2a+b

, 199

3, 1

994,

199

5;M

cGow

an 1

993;

G. L

ow, p

ers.

com

m.)

cisc

o sp

p.

[50

0]19

89--N

F;19

90--0

kg;

1991

--300

kg;

1992

--0 k

g;19

93--0

kg;

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1974

--37,

500

to 6

0,40

0 fis

h;19

93--7

10 fi

sh;

lake

trou

t

[600

]19

89--N

F;19

90--3

44 k

g;19

91--6

00 k

g;19

92--3

63 k

g;19

93--3

00 k

g;

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1974

--4,4

00 to

6,6

00 fi

sh;

1979

--177

fish

(640

kg)

wer

esa

mpl

ed;

1993

--731

fish

;

lake

whi

tefis

h [5

00]

1990

--0 k

g;19

91--2

00 k

g;19

92---

0 kg

;19

93--0

kg;

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1993

--5 fi

sh;

Alcy

one

Bay

65°1

2'N

, 121

°38'

WR

esid

ents

of D

élin

e ha

ve g

illnet

ted

lake

trou

t and

whi

tefis

h fo

r sub

sist

ence

from

Alcy

one

Bay

in la

te s

prin

g an

d ea

rly s

umm

er.

A sp

awni

ng g

roun

d ha

s be

en re

porte

din

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

at th

e m

outh

of a

stre

am (6

5°10

'N, 1

21°3

7'W

) im

med

iate

ly s

outh

of A

lcyo

ne B

ay.

(NLU

IS M

ap 9

6H)

Clo

ud B

ay65

°04'

N, 1

21°4

0'W

lake

trou

t

[685

]la

ke w

hite

fish

[455

] 19

82--0

kg;

1986

--NF;

Expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ries

licen

ced

in 1

982

and

1986

. N

o re

cord

of h

arve

st.

(McG

owan

1985

; Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; W. B

ayha

, per

s. c

omm

.)

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Dee

rpas

s Ba

y66

°56'

N, 1

22°2

5'W

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSu

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

t:19

77--9

0 kg

;La

ke tr

out a

nd w

hite

fish

are

repo

rted

to s

paw

n at

the

head

of D

eerp

ass

Bay.

R

esid

ents

of D

élin

e fis

h fo

r sub

sist

ence

at D

eerp

ass

Bay.

The

y ha

rves

ted

anes

timat

ed 9

07 k

g of

fish

from

the

area

in th

e fa

ll of

197

3, a

nd 1

,270

kg

in th

e sp

ring

of19

77.

Expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ries

wer

e lic

ence

d in

198

2, 1

983

and

1986

but

ther

e is

no

reco

rd o

f har

vest

. G

uest

s fro

m T

roph

y Lo

dge

on S

mith

Arm

fly-

in to

Dee

rpas

s Ba

y to

angl

e fo

r lak

e tro

ut.

(Hal

l 197

8; M

cGow

an 1

985;

Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; NLU

ISM

aps

96 G

+J; L

. And

erso

n an

d W

. Bay

ha, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

trou

t

[685

] 19

82--0

kg;

1983

--NF;

1986

--NF;

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1977

--227

kg;

Spor

t har

vest

:19

88--4

lake

trou

t19

89--1

17 la

ke tr

out

1990

--112

lake

trou

t

lake

whi

tefis

h [4

55]

Subs

iste

nce

harv

est:

1977

--909

kg;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSu

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

t:19

77--4

5 kg

;

Deh

selia

65°0

5'N

, 123

°15'

Wla

ke tr

out

[6

85]

lake

whi

tefis

h [4

55]

1986

--NF;

Expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ry li

cenc

ed in

198

6, b

ut n

ot fi

shed

. (Y

arem

chuk

et a

l. 19

89; W

.Ba

yha,

per

s. c

omm

.)

Fort

Fran

klin

(Gre

at B

ear L

ake)

65°1

1'N

, 123

°25'

W

See

KEIT

H A

RM

. Fo

rt Fr

ankl

in a

nd K

eith

Arm

refe

r to

the

sam

e ar

ea o

r Gre

at B

ear

Lake

. (G

. Low

, per

s. c

omm

.)

Fox

Poin

t65

°21'

N, 1

22°4

5'W

lake

trou

t

[685

]la

ke w

hite

fish

[455

]19

86--N

F;Ex

perim

enta

l fis

hery

lice

nced

in 1

986,

but

not

fish

ed.

(Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; W.

Bayh

a, p

ers.

com

m.)

Jupi

ter B

ay65

°19'

N, 1

21°3

3'W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

[2

,300

]19

82--0

kg;

1983

--NF;

Expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ries

licen

ced

in 1

982

and

1983

. N

o re

cord

of h

arve

st.

(McG

owan

1985

; Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; W. B

ayha

, per

s. c

omm

.)

Man

itou

Bay

65°0

0'N

, 122

°09'

Wla

ke tr

out

[6

85]

lake

whi

tefis

h [4

55]

1982

--0 k

g;19

83--N

F;19

86--N

F;

Expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ries

licen

ced

in 1

982,

198

3 an

d 19

86.

No

reco

rd o

f har

vest

. (M

cGow

an 1

985;

Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

)

Preb

le B

ay65

°30'

N, 1

21°1

0'W

Lake

trou

t spa

wn

in P

rebl

e Ba

y in

late

Aug

ust a

nd e

arly

Sep

tem

ber.

(Joh

nson

1975

c).

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Rus

sel B

ay65

°28'

N, 1

22°5

2'W

lake

trou

t

[685

]la

ke w

hite

fish

[455

]19

82--0

kg;

1983

--NF;

1986

--NF;

Lake

trou

t spa

wn

in R

usse

l Bay

in la

te A

ugus

t and

ear

ly S

epte

mbe

r. W

hite

fish

are

also

repo

rted

to s

paw

n in

the

bay.

In

the

fall

of 1

973,

an

estim

ated

2,2

68 k

g of

fish

wer

e ha

rves

ted

for s

ubsi

sten

ce fr

om R

usse

l Bay

. In

Jun

e of

197

4, a

bout

1,0

00 la

ketro

ut a

nd w

hite

fish

wer

e ha

rves

ted

at R

usse

l Bay

and

retu

rned

to D

élin

e.

Expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ries

licen

ced

in 1

982,

198

3 an

d 19

86.

No

reco

rd o

f har

vest

. Tw

one

ts w

ere

set i

n 19

82 b

ut n

o fis

h w

ere

caug

ht.

(Joh

nson

197

5c; R

ushf

orth

197

6;G

uttm

an 1

973

cite

d in

Hal

l 197

8; M

cGow

an 1

985;

Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; NLU

ISM

ap 9

6G; W

. Bay

ha a

nd A

.C. D

ay, p

ers.

com

m.)

Whi

skey

Jac

k Po

int

65°1

3'N

, 123

°00'

Wla

ke tr

out

[6

85]

lake

whi

tefis

h [4

55]

1986

--200

lake

trou

t;Ex

perim

enta

l fis

hery

lice

nced

in 1

986.

(Ya

rem

chuk

et a

l. 19

89; W

. Bay

ha, p

ers.

com

m.)

McT

AVIS

H A

RM

(nor

th)

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--84

fish;

1989

--51

fish;

1990

--39

fish;

Res

iden

ts o

f Dél

ine

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce in

Hor

nby

Bay

and

an u

nnam

ed b

ay (6

6°21

'N,

119°

47'W

). In

som

e ye

ars,

larg

e qu

antit

ies

of fi

sh w

ere

sent

bac

k to

Dél

ine

from

fall

fish

cam

ps a

long

the

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

shor

elin

e. N

o es

timat

es o

f the

se o

r cur

rent

sub

sist

ence

harv

ests

wer

e lo

cate

d. S

port

fishe

rmen

from

Arc

tic C

ircle

Lod

ge a

nd it

s ou

tpos

t cam

pan

gle

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trou

t, la

ke w

hite

fish,

and

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om n

orth

ern

McT

avis

hAr

m (F

ig. 3

+4).

Whi

le th

ey ta

ke th

e m

ost f

ish,

som

e gu

ests

from

Plu

mm

er's

Gre

at B

ear

Lake

Lod

ge a

nd B

rans

on's

Lod

ge a

lso

visi

t thi

s ar

ea o

f the

lake

to fi

sh.

DFO

est

imat

ed th

esp

ort h

arve

st o

f lak

e tro

ut fr

om n

orth

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m fr

om d

ata

supp

lied

by A

rctic

Circ

leLo

dge

in 1

972,

from

cre

el c

ensu

ses

of lo

dge

gues

ts in

197

5 an

d 19

84, a

nd fr

om th

eir

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

in 1

987-

90.

Cre

el c

ensu

s da

ta fr

om th

e sp

ort l

odge

are

sum

mar

ized

in T

able

4.

Dat

a fro

m th

e 19

87 a

ngle

r dia

ry p

rogr

am is

not

incl

uded

her

e du

e to

the

low

resp

onse

rate

(33%

). P

re-1

988

harv

est e

stim

ates

onl

y in

clud

e fis

h ha

rves

ted

by g

uest

s of

Arct

ic C

ircle

Lod

ge.

In 1

984,

DFO

als

o co

nduc

ted

an e

xper

imen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

inno

rther

n M

cTav

ish

Arm

. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke c

isco

, lak

e tro

ut, l

ake

whi

tefis

h, n

orth

ern

pike

, and

roun

d w

hite

fish

wer

e sa

mpl

ed fo

r dat

a on

gro

wth

, rep

rodu

ctio

n, d

iet,

and

catc

h-ef

fort.

Bas

ed o

n th

e ha

rves

t and

bio

logi

cal d

ata,

the

stoc

k of

lake

trou

t in

north

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m a

ppea

r to

have

dec

lined

bet

wee

n 19

75 a

nd 1

984.

Ind

icat

ors

of th

is c

hang

ein

clud

ed a

dec

reas

e of

ove

r 40%

in th

e ca

tch

per u

nit o

f fis

hing

effo

rt, a

shi

ft to

war

dssm

alle

r and

you

nger

fish

in th

e ca

tch,

the

disa

ppea

ranc

e of

"tro

phy

qual

ity" t

rout

old

er th

an25

yr,

and

an in

crea

se in

the

inst

anta

neou

s to

tal m

orta

lity

rate

. Th

ese

are

indi

catio

ns o

f afis

hing

dow

n of

the

stan

ding

sto

ck o

f lak

e tro

ut in

nor

ther

n M

cTav

ish

Arm

, and

of i

tsco

ntin

ued

decl

ine.

In

1988

, DFO

reco

mm

ende

d th

at s

port

fishe

rmen

take

no

mor

e th

an1,

500

lake

trou

t (TA

H) f

rom

nor

ther

n M

cTav

ish

Arm

ann

ually

to e

nabl

e th

e po

pula

tion

tost

abiliz

e an

d to

sus

tain

the

troph

y fis

hery

. Ar

ctic

Circ

le L

odge

was

clo

sed

in 1

991,

and

will

rem

ain

clos

ed th

roug

h th

e 19

95 s

easo

n. (

Falk

and

Dah

lke

1974

; Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

1978

a; Y

arem

chuk

198

6; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; Cla

rke

et a

l. 19

89; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

1989

; And

erso

n an

d Th

omps

on 1

991;

NLU

IS M

ap 8

6L; L

. And

erso

n an

d C

. Plu

mm

er, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

cis

co--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1984

--1 fi

sh;

lake

trou

t--n

o co

mm

erci

alqu

ota,

reco

mm

ende

dTA

H o

f 1,5

00 fi

sh p

erye

ar b

y tro

phy

fishe

ries

Spor

t har

vest

:19

72--1

,484

fish

(3,9

12 k

g);

1975

--2,3

25 fi

sh (6

,517

kg)

;19

84--2

,345

fish

;19

88--1

,701

fish

;19

89--1

,351

fish

;19

90--1

,018

fish

;Ex

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

84--3

79 fi

sh (5

07 k

g);

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1984

--5 fi

sh;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--64

fish;

1989

--50

fish;

1990

--13

fish;

roun

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

84--1

fish

;

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

McT

AVIS

H A

RM

(sou

th)

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1987

--267

fish

;19

88--3

23 fi

sh;

1989

--196

fish

;19

90--1

28 fi

sh;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--7 fi

sh;

In th

e pa

st, h

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs fr

om R

ae L

akes

and

Dél

ine

fishe

d fo

r sub

sist

ence

in th

efa

ll at

she

ltere

d ba

ys in

the

Con

juro

r Bay

are

a. A

rctic

gra

ylin

g w

ere

the

mai

n sp

ecie

sta

ken.

The

y w

ere

eate

n or

use

d fo

r dog

food

. N

o es

timat

es o

f the

se o

r cur

rent

subs

iste

nce

harv

ests

wer

e lo

cate

d. I

n 19

45, t

he s

port

harv

est o

f lak

e tro

ut b

y re

side

nts

ofPo

rt R

adiu

m w

as e

stim

ated

at 1

,330

kg.

Mor

e re

cent

har

vest

s by

resi

dent

s of

the

area

are

unkn

own.

In

sum

mer

, spo

rt fis

herm

en v

isit

Bran

son'

s Lo

dge

to a

ngle

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trout

, lak

e w

hite

fish,

and

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om s

outh

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m (F

ig. 3

+4).

Est

imat

esof

the

spor

t har

vest

of l

ake

trout

wer

e ge

nera

ted

by D

FO fr

om c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

egu

ests

in 1

972,

197

4, 1

978

and

1984

, and

from

thei

r ang

ler d

iary

pro

gram

in 1

987-

90.

The

wei

ghts

of f

ish

harv

este

d in

198

4 an

d 19

87-9

0 w

ere

not e

stim

ated

. Pa

rtial

cre

el c

ensu

ses

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971

and

1973

. C

reel

cen

sus

data

from

the

spor

t lod

ge a

resu

mm

ariz

ed in

Tab

le 4

. D

FO c

ondu

cted

exp

erim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

ies

at C

amer

on B

ay, i

n19

73, a

nd in

the

vici

nity

of B

rans

on's

Lod

ge in

197

8. F

our o

f the

203

trou

t tag

ged

durin

gth

e 19

78 s

ampl

ing

prog

ram

wer

e re

cove

red

with

in 1

0 km

of t

he lo

dge

in 1

979.

In

1984

,D

FO c

ondu

cted

an

expe

rimen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

of s

outh

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trou

t, la

ke w

hite

fish,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd ro

und

whi

tefis

h w

ere

sam

pled

for d

ata

ongr

owth

, rep

rodu

ctio

n, d

iet,

and

catc

h-ef

fort.

The

sto

ck o

f "tro

phy"

siz

ed fi

sh in

sou

ther

nM

cTav

ish

Arm

was

exh

aust

ed b

y 19

72.

Betw

een

1973

and

198

4, th

e ha

rves

t and

biol

ogic

al d

ata

show

a d

eclin

e in

the

catc

h pe

r uni

t of f

ishi

ng e

ffort,

a d

eclin

e in

the

mea

nle

ngth

and

age

of l

ake

trout

cau

ght b

y th

e fis

hery

, a m

arke

d ab

senc

e of

"tro

phy"

fish

old

erth

an 2

4 yr

, and

an

incr

ease

in th

e in

stan

tane

ous

tota

l mor

talit

y ra

te.

Thes

e ar

e in

dica

tions

of a

fish

ing

dow

n of

the

stan

ding

sto

ck o

f lak

e tro

ut in

sou

ther

n M

cTav

ish

Arm

, and

als

oth

at th

e tro

ut p

opul

atio

n ha

d no

t yet

sta

biliz

ed a

nd w

as c

ontin

uing

to d

eclin

e. I

n 19

88, D

FOre

com

men

ded

that

spo

rt fis

herm

en ta

ke n

o m

ore

than

1,5

00 la

ke tr

out (

TAH

) fro

m s

outh

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m a

nnua

lly in

ord

er s

tabi

lize

the

popu

latio

n an

d to

sus

tain

the

troph

y fis

hery

. Br

anso

n's

Lodg

e w

as c

lose

d in

199

1, a

nd re

mai

ned

clos

ed a

t the

tim

e of

writ

ing.

The

Eldo

rado

Min

e at

Por

t Rad

ium

(66°

06'N

, 118

°05'

W),

prod

uced

silv

er a

nd ra

dium

from

193

2to

196

0, a

nd w

as la

ter r

e-op

ened

to m

ine

silv

er fr

om 1

976-

81.

The

Echo

Bay

Min

e,ne

arby

, ope

rate

d fro

m 1

964

to 1

976,

min

ing

silv

er, c

oppe

r, le

ad, a

nd o

ther

ass

ocia

ted

min

eral

s. P

rior t

o 19

75, b

oth

min

es d

isch

arge

d ta

ilings

dire

ctly

into

Gre

at B

ear L

ake.

In

1972

, DFO

sam

plin

g in

the

vici

nity

foun

d el

evat

ed h

eavy

met

al c

once

ntra

tions

in th

ebo

ttom

sed

imen

t, an

d in

lake

cis

co a

nd la

ke tr

out c

olle

cted

nea

r the

tailin

gs d

isch

arge

. Th

e le

vels

of r

adio

nucl

ides

and

hea

vy m

etal

s in

the

sedi

men

t wer

e st

ill el

evat

ed in

197

8,w

hen

they

wer

e ag

ain

sam

pled

. Fl

esh

of la

ke tr

out i

n th

e vi

cini

ty w

as te

sted

for m

ercu

ryan

d fo

und

to h

ave

low

con

cent

ratio

ns (0

.01-

0.05

mg

kg-1),

wel

l with

in th

e lim

its fo

r hum

anco

nsum

ptio

n. T

oxic

ity te

sts

cond

ucte

d in

197

4 by

Env

ironm

ent C

anad

a sh

owed

the

min

eta

ilings

dis

char

ge to

be

mod

erat

ely

acut

ely

toxi

c to

rain

bow

trou

t. A

fter 1

975,

the

min

eta

ilings

wer

e de

posi

ted

into

McD

onou

gh L

ake,

whe

re a

dditi

onal

rete

ntio

n tim

e an

dtre

atm

ent c

ould

act

to d

ecre

ase

the

conc

entra

tions

of t

oxic

ants

. (M

iller 1

947;

Fal

k et

al.

1973

a+b,

197

4a+c

, 197

5, 1

982;

Fal

k an

d D

ahlk

e 19

74; W

alla

ce e

t al.

1975

; Moo

re a

ndSu

ther

land

198

1; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

983;

Yar

emch

uk 1

986;

Nas

sich

uk 1

987;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n 19

88; C

lark

e et

al.

1989

; Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

And

erso

n an

dTh

omps

on 1

991;

NLU

IS M

ap 8

6E; L

. And

erso

n an

d C

. Plu

mm

er, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

cis

co--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--16

fish

(1.5

kg)

;

lake

trou

t--n

o co

mm

erci

alqu

ota,

reco

mm

ende

dTA

H o

f 1,5

00 fi

sh p

erye

ar b

y tro

phy

fishe

ries

Spor

t har

vest

:19

71--p

artia

l cre

el;

1972

--3,6

35 fi

sh (1

0,21

7 kg

);19

73--p

artia

l cre

el;

1974

--3,9

63 fi

sh (1

2,89

0 kg

);19

78--1

,935

fish

(7,2

12 k

g);

1984

--2,5

64 fi

sh;

1987

--1,1

36 fi

sh;

1988

--1,2

02 fi

sh;

1989

----9

06 fi

sh;

1990

----8

31 fi

sh;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1978

--62

fish

(85.

5 kg

);19

84--1

26 fi

sh (2

26 k

g);

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--4 fi

sh (1

5.6

kg);

1984

--2 fi

sh;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1987

--31

fish;

1988

--66

fish;

1989

--55

fish;

1990

--42

fish;

roun

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

73--1

7 fis

h (1

1 kg

);19

84--2

fish

;

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

McV

ICAR

AR

MAr

ctic

gra

ylin

g--n

o qu

ota

Spor

t har

vest

:19

87--1

45 fi

sh;

1988

--146

fish

;19

89--1

52 fi

sh;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1984

--1 fi

sh;

In th

e fa

ll of

197

3, s

ubsi

sten

ce fi

sher

men

har

vest

ed a

n es

timat

ed 4

,536

kg

of fi

shfro

m M

cVic

ar A

rm.

Spor

t fis

herm

en fr

om th

e N

eila

nd B

ay a

nd B

ear I

slan

d ou

tpos

tsof

Gre

at B

ear L

odge

ang

le A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke tr

out,

and

north

ern

pike

from

nor

ther

nM

cVic

ar A

rm (F

ig. 3

+4).

Est

imat

es o

f the

spo

rt ha

rves

t of l

ake

trout

wer

e ge

nera

ted

by D

FO fr

om c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

e gu

ests

in 1

972,

197

3, 1

979

and

1984

, and

from

thei

r ang

ler d

iary

pro

gram

in 1

987-

89.

Gre

at B

ear L

odge

has

bee

n cl

osed

sin

ce19

90.

A lim

ited

cree

l cen

sus

was

con

duct

ed in

197

1, a

nd s

ome

data

wer

e su

pplie

dby

the

lodg

e in

197

4. C

reel

cen

sus

data

from

the

lodg

e ar

e su

mm

ariz

ed in

Tab

le 4

. D

FO c

ondu

cted

exp

erim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

ies

in 1

973

and

1979

, in

the

Nei

land

Bay

and

Bear

Isla

nd a

reas

resp

ectiv

ely.

In

1979

, the

y ta

gged

256

lake

trou

t. In

198

4,D

FO c

ondu

cted

an

expe

rimen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

of n

orth

ern

McV

icar

Arm

. Ar

ctic

gray

ling,

lake

cis

co, l

ake

trout

, lak

e w

hite

fish,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd ro

und

whi

tefis

h w

ere

sam

pled

for d

ata

on g

row

th, r

epro

duct

ion,

die

t, an

d ca

tch-

effo

rt. L

arge

har

vest

s of

trout

in th

e 19

70's

cau

sed

the

mea

n le

ngth

and

age

of l

ake

trout

in th

e M

icVi

car A

rmst

ock

to d

eclin

e in

the

late

197

0's.

Thi

s le

d to

a c

hang

e in

lodg

e po

licy

such

that

each

ang

ler o

nly

reta

ined

one

trop

hy fi

sh.

In 1

984,

bas

ed o

n th

e re

lativ

ely

larg

em

ean

leng

th a

nd a

ge o

f tro

ut c

augh

t by

the

expe

rimen

tal f

ishe

ry a

nd o

n th

e si

ze o

ffis

h in

the

inte

nsiv

e cr

eel c

ensu

s, D

FO b

elie

ved

that

the

stoc

k ha

d st

abiliz

ed a

nd th

attro

phy

qual

ity la

ke tr

out w

ere

still

avai

labl

e. I

n 19

88, D

FO re

com

men

ded

that

spo

rtfis

herm

en ta

ke n

o m

ore

than

1,5

00 la

ke tr

out (

TAH

) fro

m n

orth

ern

McV

icar

Arm

annu

ally

in o

rder

to s

usta

in th

e tro

phy

fishe

ry.

(Fal

k et

al.

1974

a+c

, 197

5, 1

982;

Gut

tman

197

3 ci

ted

in H

all 1

978;

Yar

emch

uk 1

986;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n 19

88; C

lark

eet

al.

1989

; Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

And

erso

n an

d Th

omps

on 1

991;

L. A

nder

son

and

C. P

lum

mer

, per

s. c

omm

.)

lake

cis

co--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--117

fish

(11

kg);

1984

--62

fish;

lake

trou

t--n

o co

mm

erci

alqu

ota,

reco

mm

ende

dTA

H o

f 1,5

00 fi

sh p

erye

ar b

y tro

phy

fishe

ries

Spor

t har

vest

:19

71--p

artia

l cre

el;

1972

--2,4

96 fi

sh (1

1,71

7 kg

);19

73--2

,292

fish

(11,

230

kg);

1974

--par

tial c

reel

;19

79-->

1,02

6 fis

h (4

,976

kg)

B

ear I

sl. o

nly;

1984

--1,6

26 fi

sh;

1987

--1,3

55 fi

sh;

1988

--771

fish

;19

89--8

92 fi

sh;

1990

--19

fish;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1979

--42

fish

(60

kg);

1984

--148

fish

(610

kg)

;

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--3 fi

sh (1

4 kg

);19

84--3

6 fis

h;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1987

--52

fish;

1988

--64

fish;

1989

--55

fish;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1984

--2 fi

sh;

roun

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

73--2

1 fis

h (1

2.5

kg);

roun

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

84--1

2 fis

h;

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rdw

t)2

ESTI

MAT

ED H

ARVE

ST

(# o

f fis

h or

kg

rd w

t)2,3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

SMIT

H A

RM

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1987

--1,1

37 fi

sh;

1988

--577

fish

;19

89--3

96 fi

sh;

1990

--313

fish

;Ex

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

73--7

9 fis

h;19

85--3

5 fis

h;

Res

iden

ts o

f Dél

ine

fish

for s

ubsi

sten

ce a

t she

ltere

d ba

ys a

long

the

coas

ts o

f Sm

ithAr

m.

In th

e fa

ll an

d ea

rly w

inte

r of 1

977,

they

har

vest

ed a

n es

timat

ed 1

3,60

8 kg

of

fish

from

Byd

and

Bay

(66°

00'N

, 124

°55'

W),

and

3,63

6 kg

of w

hite

fish

from

McG

ill Ba

y(6

6°35

'N, 1

22°2

3'W

) (se

e al

so T

able

3, W

hite

fish

Riv

er).

Spo

rt fis

herm

en fr

om T

roph

yLo

dge

angl

e Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke tr

out,

and

north

ern

pike

from

Sm

ith A

rm (F

ig. 3

+4).

Smal

ler n

umbe

rs o

f fis

h ar

e al

so h

arve

sted

from

the

area

by

gues

ts a

t Bra

nson

'sLo

dge'

s ou

tpos

t cam

p. D

FO h

as e

stim

ated

the

spor

t har

vest

of l

ake

trout

from

dat

apr

ovid

ed b

y Tr

ophy

Lod

ge in

197

2; fr

om c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

e gu

ests

in 1

972,

1973

, 197

6, 1

980,

and

198

5; a

nd fr

om th

eir a

ngle

r dia

ry p

rogr

am in

198

7-90

. Th

eha

rves

t est

imat

es b

efor

e 19

87 w

ere

base

d on

ly o

n da

ta fr

om T

roph

y Lo

dge.

Cre

elce

nsus

dat

a fro

m th

e sp

ort l

odge

are

sum

mar

ized

in T

able

4.

DFO

con

duct

ed a

nex

perim

enta

l gilI

net a

nd b

each

sei

ne fi

sher

y of

Sm

ith A

rm in

197

3, a

nd e

xper

imen

tal

gilln

et fi

sher

ies

in 1

980

and

1985

. Th

ey ta

gged

405

trou

t in

1980

. In

the

mor

eex

tens

ive

1985

fish

ery,

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

cis

co, l

ake

trout

, lak

e w

hite

fish,

nor

ther

npi

ke, a

nd ro

und

whi

tefis

h w

ere

sam

pled

for d

ata

on g

row

th, r

epro

duct

ion,

die

t, an

dca

tch-

effo

rt. W

hile

har

vest

and

bio

logi

cal d

ata

sugg

este

d th

at th

e la

ke tr

out s

tock

inSm

ith A

rm h

ad s

tabi

lized

in 1

980,

this

was

no

long

er c

lear

by

1985

whe

n th

e m

odal

age

of fi

sh in

the

cree

l cen

sus

sam

ple

decl

ined

and

the

inst

anta

neou

s to

tal m

orta

lity

rate

rem

aine

d hi

gh.

How

ever

, gilln

et s

ampl

ing

indi

cate

d th

at tr

ophy

qua

lity

trout

wer

est

ill av

aila

ble

in 1

985.

In

1988

, DFO

reco

mm

ende

d th

at s

port

fishe

rmen

take

no

mor

e th

an 2

,500

lake

trou

t (TA

H) f

rom

sou

ther

n M

cTav

ish

Arm

ann

ually

in o

rder

stab

ilize

the

popu

latio

n an

d to

sus

tain

the

troph

y fis

hery

. (F

alk

et a

l. 19

74a+

c, 1

975;

Hal

l 197

8; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

978a

; Gillm

an a

nd R

ober

ge 1

982;

Yar

emch

uk19

86; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; Cla

rke

et a

l. 19

89; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9;An

ders

on a

nd T

hom

pson

199

1; N

LUIS

Map

s 96

J+K;

L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

lake

cis

co--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--12

fish

(4 k

g);

1985

--33

fish;

lake

trou

t--n

o co

mm

erci

alqu

ota,

reco

mm

ende

dTA

H o

f 2,5

00 fi

sh p

erye

ar b

y tro

phy

fishe

ries

Spor

t har

vest

:19

72--3

,709

fish

(12,

277

kg);

1973

--3,8

50 fi

sh (1

3,04

6 kg

);19

76--2

,758

fish

(9,1

32 k

g);

1980

--2,4

97 fi

sh (6

,092

kg)

;19

85--2

,965

fish

;19

87--2

,262

fish

;19

88--1

,477

fish

;19

89--1

,535

fish

;19

90--1

,111

fish

;Ex

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

80--4

3 fis

h (3

5 kg

);19

85--2

02 fi

sh (6

68 k

g);

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--83

fish

(153

kg)

;19

85--2

56 fi

sh;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1987

--233

fish

;19

88--1

50 fi

sh;

1989

--173

fish

;19

90--1

74 fi

sh;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1973

--7 fi

sh (2

2 kg

);19

85--4

fish

;

roun

d w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aEx

perim

enta

l har

vest

:19

73--5

fish

(1.5

kg)

;19

85--3

5 fis

h;

Tabl

e 2.

Con

tinue

d.

1 Fis

herie

s ar

e di

scus

sed

unde

r six

mai

n ar

ea h

eadi

ngs,

cor

resp

ondi

ng to

the

man

agem

ent a

reas

DFO

has

use

d fo

r the

lake

trou

t spo

rt fis

hery

(Fig

. 3).

Und

er th

ehe

adin

g of

"Kei

th A

rm" a

num

ber o

f sm

alle

r are

as w

ith h

isto

ries

of in

tere

st in

com

mer

cial

or s

ubsi

sten

ce h

arve

st a

re a

lso

disc

usse

d.2 A

roun

d w

eigh

t (kg

rd w

t) is

that

for a

who

le fi

sh, w

hile

a d

ress

ed w

eigh

t is

that

of a

fish

with

the

visc

era

and

gills

rem

oved

. Th

e qu

otas

are

from

Sch

edul

e V

of th

eN

orth

wes

t Ter

ritor

ies

Fish

ery

Reg

ulat

ions

exc

ept w

here

they

hav

e be

en c

hang

ed re

cent

ly b

y Va

riatio

n O

rder

. In

this

cas

e, th

e m

ost r

ecen

t quo

ta is

giv

en.

Squa

rebr

acke

ts in

dica

te p

rovi

sion

al te

st q

uota

s. T

he q

uota

yea

rs a

re th

e sa

me

as th

e fe

dera

l gov

ernm

ent f

isca

l yea

r (e.

g. th

e 19

95 q

uota

ext

ends

from

1 A

pril

1995

to 3

1 M

arch

1996

). "N

A" in

dica

tes

that

a h

arve

st m

ay h

ave

take

n pl

ace

but t

hat n

o da

ta a

re a

vaila

ble;

"N

F" in

dica

tes

that

a w

ater

body

was

ope

ned

for f

ishi

ng b

y Va

riatio

n O

rder

but

was

not

fish

ed.

"TAH

" is

the

tota

l allo

wab

le h

arve

st th

at D

FO h

as re

com

men

ded

for s

port

fishe

ries

in e

ach

arm

of G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e.3 U

nles

s ot

herw

ise

note

d th

e ha

rves

ts w

ere

take

n by

com

mer

cial

or e

xper

imen

tal f

ishe

ries.

The

"sub

sist

ence

har

vest

s" a

re ta

ken

by re

side

nts

for t

heir

own

use,

"exp

erim

enta

l har

vest

s" w

ere

take

n fo

r sci

entif

ic p

urpo

ses,

and

the

"spo

rt ha

rves

ts" b

y an

gler

s. S

port

harv

est d

ata

are

the

"tota

l est

imat

ed s

port

harv

est"

whi

ch in

clud

esfis

h ke

pt a

s tro

phie

s, e

aten

for s

hore

lunc

h, a

nd w

hich

wer

e re

leas

ed a

nd s

ubse

quen

tly d

ied

(est

imat

ed a

t 7%

by

Falk

et a

l. 19

74b)

. Th

e 19

71-7

3 ha

rves

t est

imat

es fo

rla

ke tr

out w

ere

take

n fro

m F

alk

et a

l. (1

975)

who

reca

lcul

ated

the

orig

inal

dat

a to

refle

ct im

prov

ed m

etho

dolo

gy.

Thes

e es

timat

es d

iffer

som

ewha

t fro

m th

ose

orig

inal

lypu

blis

hed

by F

alk

et a

l. (1

973a

, 197

4a),

and

are

thou

ght t

o be

mor

e ac

cura

te.

They

are

als

o be

tter c

ompa

rabl

e to

the

mor

e re

cent

har

vest

est

imat

es w

hich

wer

eca

lcul

ated

usi

ng s

imila

r met

hodo

logy

. Es

timat

es o

f the

tota

l wei

ght o

f fis

h ki

lled

by s

port

fishe

ries

in 1

984,

and

198

7-90

are

not

ava

ilabl

e. S

port

harv

est e

stim

ates

for l

ake

trout

from

198

7-90

incl

ude

all o

f the

lodg

es fi

shin

g in

a p

artic

ular

arm

of t

he la

ke--o

ther

har

vest

est

imat

es a

re o

nly

for t

he lo

dge

situ

ated

on

that

arm

of t

he la

ke.

4 Rus

hfor

th (1

976)

repo

rted

tota

l edi

ble

wei

ghts

, whi

ch w

ere

assu

med

to b

e 80

% o

f the

tota

l wei

ght o

f the

fish

. Th

ese

tota

l edi

ble

wei

ghts

hav

e be

en c

onve

rted

to ro

und

wei

ght i

n ki

logr

ams

(i.e.

tota

l edi

ble

wei

ght i

n kg

/ 0.

8 =

roun

d w

eigh

t in

kg).

Tabl

e 3.

Har

vest

s of

fish

es fr

om tr

ibut

arie

s of

Gre

at B

ear L

ake,

NW

T.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2ES

TIM

ATED

TO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

or k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Big

Spru

ce R

iver

66°4

7'N

, 121

°21'

WTh

is s

tream

dra

ins

into

nor

th-c

entra

l Gre

at B

ear L

ake.

In

1975

, an

expe

rimen

tal s

eine

fishe

ry c

augh

t im

mat

ure

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

at th

e riv

er m

outh

and

15

km u

pstre

am.

(Sut

herla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78)

Bloo

dy R

iver

66°5

6'N

, 120

°34'

WTh

e Bl

oody

Riv

er d

rain

s so

uthw

ard

into

Dea

se A

rm o

f Gre

at B

ear L

ake.

In

1975

, an

expe

rimen

tal s

eine

fish

ery

at th

e riv

er m

outh

cau

ght i

mm

atur

e A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d ro

und

whi

tefis

h, a

nd m

atur

e ni

nesp

ine

stic

kleb

ack.

Im

mat

ure

gray

ling

wer

e al

so ta

ken

at a

site

50

km u

pstre

am fr

om th

e riv

er m

outh

. (S

uthe

rland

and

Goh

lke

1978

)

Cam

sell

Riv

er65

°40'

N, 1

18°0

7'W

cisc

o sp

p.--n

o qu

ota

1959

--125

kg;

A sm

all c

omm

erci

al fi

sher

y w

as c

ondu

cted

at t

he m

outh

of t

he C

amse

ll R

iver

(65°

40'N

,11

8°07

'W) i

n 19

59.

Hun

ters

and

trap

pers

from

Rae

Lak

es a

nd/o

r Dél

ine

have

occa

sion

ally

fish

ed b

elow

Whi

te E

agle

Fal

ls (6

5°37

'N, 1

17°4

9'W

) to

prov

ide

win

ter f

ood

for t

hem

selv

es a

nd th

eir d

ogs.

At 1

6 m

in h

eigh

t, th

ese

falls

form

a n

atur

al b

arrie

r to

upst

ream

fish

mig

ratio

n in

the

Cam

sell

Riv

er.

Gue

sts

of B

rans

on's

Lod

ge o

n so

uthe

rnM

cTav

ish

Arm

vis

it th

e C

amse

ll R

iver

to a

ngle

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke tr

out,

and

north

ern

pike

--muc

h of

the

fishi

ng ta

kes

plac

e be

low

Whi

te E

agle

Fal

ls.

This

repo

rt ha

sno

t bee

n co

nfirm

ed.

Angl

ers

from

the

lodg

e al

so v

isit

Hot

tah

Lake

, whi

ch is

on

the

Cam

sell

Riv

er s

yste

m u

pstre

am fr

om th

e se

ttlem

ent a

rea.

DFO

con

duct

ed a

limno

logi

cal a

nd b

iolo

gica

l sur

vey

of H

otta

h La

ke in

197

2. I

n th

e pa

st, T

erra

Min

e(6

5°36

'N, 1

18°0

8'W

), ne

ar th

e m

outh

of t

he C

amse

ll R

iver

dis

char

ged

tailin

gs fr

om it

ssi

lver

and

cop

per m

inin

g an

d m

illing

ope

ratio

n in

to a

sm

all l

ake

know

n lo

cally

as

"Ho-

Hum

Lak

e", w

hich

in tu

rn d

isch

arge

s th

roug

h a

mus

keg

area

into

the

Cam

sell

Riv

er.

DFO

sam

pled

sed

imen

ts a

nd b

iota

in th

e la

ke a

nd in

Cam

sell

Riv

er, a

bove

and

bel

owth

e la

ke o

utfa

ll, in

197

2. E

leva

ted

leve

ls o

f hea

vy m

etal

s w

ere

foun

d in

sed

imen

t and

fish

from

the

tailin

gs p

ond,

but

not

in s

edim

ent o

r ben

thos

in th

e C

amse

ll R

iver

bel

ow it

sou

tfall.

In

1974

, Env

ironm

ent C

anad

a te

sted

the

toxi

city

of s

ampl

es fr

om H

o-H

um L

ake

on ra

inbo

w tr

out a

nd d

id n

ot fi

nd th

em to

be

acut

ely

toxi

c.

(Fal

k et

al.

1973

b; W

ong

and

Whi

llans

197

3; W

alla

ce e

t al.

1975

; Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

; NLU

IS M

aps

86E+

F; L

.An

ders

on a

nd C

. Plu

mm

er, p

ers.

com

m.)

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--41

fish

(1.4

9 fis

hca

ught

per

ang

ler h

r);19

89--6

fish

(1.1

2 fis

h ca

ught

per a

ngle

r hr);

lake

trou

t--n

o qu

ota

1959

--2,3

36 k

g;Sp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--16

fish

(0.4

7 fis

hca

ught

per

ang

ler h

r);19

89--4

fish

(0.1

8 fis

h ca

ught

per a

ngle

r hr);

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

1959

--14

kg;

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--3 fi

sh (0

.03

fish

caug

htpe

r ang

ler h

r);19

89--N

A (0

.08

fish

caug

htpe

r ang

ler h

r);

Con

tact

Lak

e65

°59'

N, 1

17°5

0'W

lake

trou

t--n

o qu

ota

Spor

t har

vest

:19

88--5

fish

(0.5

4 fis

h ca

ught

per a

ngle

r hr);

1989

--5 fi

sh (1

.2 fi

sh c

augh

tpe

r ang

ler h

r);

Gue

sts

of B

rans

ons'

s Lo

dge

som

etim

es fl

y-in

to C

onta

ct L

ake

to a

ngle

for l

ake

trout

and

north

ern

pike

. (L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

Tabl

e 3.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2ES

TIM

ATED

TO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

or k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Dea

se R

iver

66°5

3'N

, 119

°02'

WAn

exp

erim

enta

l gilln

et a

nd s

eine

fish

ery

in 1

976

caug

ht A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, c

isco

sp.

, lak

etro

ut, l

ake

whi

tefis

h, lo

ngno

se s

ucke

r, ni

nesp

ine

stic

kleb

ack,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd s

limy

scul

pin

in th

e D

ease

Riv

er s

yste

m.

Seve

ral s

ites

wer

e sa

mpl

ed, i

nclu

ding

the

Dea

seR

iver

nea

r San

dy C

reek

, Lac

la R

oux,

and

ups

tream

from

the

settl

emen

t are

a at

Lac

Rou

vier

e. A

rctic

gra

ylin

g ap

pare

ntly

mov

e up

stre

am fr

om G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e in

May

tosp

awn

in th

e D

ease

Riv

er s

yste

m.

(Sut

herla

nd a

nd G

ohlk

e 19

78)

Gre

enho

rn R

iver

(Sul

ky R

iver

)67

°00'

N, 1

19°3

4'W

Arct

ic G

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--21

fish

(3.7

fish

cau

ght

per a

ngle

r hr);

1989

--13

fish

(2.8

fish

cau

ght

per a

ngle

r hr);

Gue

st o

f Plu

mm

er's

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

Lodg

e vi

sit t

he "S

ulky

Riv

er" t

o an

gle

for A

rctic

gray

ling

and

lake

trou

t. (L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

trou

t--n

o qu

ota

Spor

t har

vest

:19

88--2

fish

(0.4

5 fis

h ca

ught

per a

ngle

r hr);

Hal

dane

Riv

er66

°51'

N, 1

21°1

5'W

The

Hal

dane

Riv

er d

rain

s so

uthw

ard

into

Dea

se A

rm o

f Gre

at B

ear L

ake.

In

1975

, an

expe

rimen

tal s

eine

fish

ery

at th

e riv

er m

outh

cau

ght i

mm

atur

e bu

rbot

, lak

e w

hite

fish,

roun

d w

hite

fish

and

suck

er, a

nd m

atur

e ni

nesp

ine

stic

kleb

ack

and

slim

y sc

ulpi

n.

Imm

atur

e gr

aylin

g an

d ro

und

whi

tefis

h w

ere

also

take

n at

a s

ite 5

5 km

ups

tream

from

the

river

mou

th.

The

Hal

dane

Riv

er a

nd it

s tri

buta

ries

are

mig

ratio

n ro

utes

, and

spaw

ning

and

nur

sery

are

as, f

or A

rctic

gra

ylin

g an

d ro

und

whi

tefis

h. (

Suth

erla

nd a

ndG

ohlk

e 19

78)

John

ny H

oe R

iver

64°4

8'N

, 121

°25'

Wla

ke w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aSu

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

t:19

45--7

10,0

00 k

g;19

73--1

3,60

0 kg

;

Lake

whi

tefis

h m

ove

from

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

into

the

John

y H

oe R

iver

from

abo

ut m

id-

Augu

st th

roug

h m

id-S

epte

mbe

r. H

isto

rical

ly th

ese

fish

have

bee

n th

e fo

cus

of a

ver

yim

porta

nt fa

ll fis

hery

by

resi

dent

s of

Dél

ine.

The

whi

tefis

h ar

e gi

llnet

ted

in th

e riv

er a

ndfro

zen

for h

uman

con

sum

ptio

n an

d do

g fo

od.

The

exte

nt o

f thi

s fis

hery

has

app

aren

tlyde

crea

sed

as th

e nu

mbe

r of d

ogs

in D

élin

e ha

ve d

imin

ishe

d. I

n th

e pa

st, w

eirs

wer

eal

so e

rect

ed in

the

river

to c

atch

the

mig

ratin

g w

hite

fish.

Gue

sts

of G

reat

Bea

r Lod

geso

met

imes

vis

it th

e Jo

hnny

Hoe

Riv

er to

ang

le fo

r nor

ther

n pi

ke.

(Mille

r 194

7; V

illier

s19

67; G

uttm

an 1

973

cite

d in

Hal

l 197

8; N

LUIS

96A

; L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

Juni

us L

ake

66°2

7'N

, 116

°38'

WAn

exp

erim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

y in

197

7 ca

ught

lake

trou

t and

long

nose

suc

ker i

n th

isla

ke o

n th

e Sl

oan

Riv

er s

yste

m.

(Ste

war

t and

Mac

Don

ald

1978

)

Kats

eyed

ie R

iver

66°3

2'N

, 123

°12'

Wla

ke tr

out

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1989

--1 fi

sh (1

.5 fi

sh c

augh

tpe

r ang

ler h

r);

The

Kats

eyed

ie R

iver

dra

ins

sout

hwar

d in

to S

mith

Arm

of G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e. I

n 19

75, a

nex

perim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

y ca

ught

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

cis

co, l

ake

trout

, lak

e w

hite

fish,

and

roun

d w

hite

fish

at th

e riv

er m

outh

. An

out

post

cam

p of

Bra

nson

's L

odge

is s

ituat

edon

the

bay

near

the

river

mou

th.

Lake

trou

t com

pris

e m

ost o

f the

ang

ler's

cat

ches

, and

are

know

n to

asc

end

the

deep

-cha

nnel

ed ri

ver m

outh

. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, ro

und

whi

tefis

h,an

d ci

sco

asce

nd th

e riv

er to

spa

wn

in it

s m

iddl

e an

d up

per r

each

es.

Imm

atur

e gr

aylin

gw

ere

caug

ht b

y se

ine

net a

bout

15

km u

pstre

am fr

om th

e riv

er m

outh

. (S

uthe

rland

and

Goh

lke

1978

; L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

Tabl

e 3.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2ES

TIM

ATED

TO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

or k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Kekw

inat

ui L

ake

65°3

8'N

, 123

°08'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs h

ave

fishe

d th

is la

ke fo

r sub

sist

ence

. (N

LUIS

Map

96G

)

Lac

Ste.

The

rese

64°3

8'N

, 121

°30'

WAr

ctic

gra

ylin

g--n

o qu

ota

Spor

t har

vest

:19

84--5

46 c

augh

t, 66

kep

t;La

c St

e. T

here

se o

n th

e Jo

hnny

Hoe

Riv

er s

yste

m is

an

impo

rtant

win

ter s

ubsi

sten

cefis

hery

for r

esid

ents

of D

élin

e. G

uest

s of

Bra

nson

's L

odge

on

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

also

fly

to L

ac S

te. T

here

se to

ang

le fo

r Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd w

alle

ye.

In 1

985,

lodg

e gu

ides

col

lect

ed d

ata

from

this

fish

ery

for D

FO, a

nd D

FO s

ampl

ed A

rctic

gra

ylin

gan

d w

alle

ye fr

om th

e fis

herm

en's

cre

els.

Exp

erim

enta

l har

vest

s w

ere

take

n fro

m th

ela

ke in

196

1, 1

962,

197

3, 1

979,

and

198

0. D

FO s

ampl

ed fi

sh in

the

lake

for b

iolo

gica

lda

ta a

nd m

ercu

ry in

197

5, 1

980,

and

199

2-94

--org

anic

con

tam

inan

ts w

ere

also

mea

sure

d in

199

4. H

igh

conc

entra

tions

(>0.

5 pp

m) o

f mer

cury

are

foun

d in

the

flesh

of

lake

trou

t, la

ke w

hite

fish,

nor

ther

n pi

ke, a

nd w

alle

ye o

f Lac

Ste

. The

rese

. Th

e m

ercu

ryoc

curs

nat

ural

ly in

the

lake

bas

in a

nd th

ese

high

leve

ls h

ave

pers

iste

d fo

r the

pas

t 18

year

s. M

ercu

ry le

vels

in th

e fis

h ex

ceed

reco

mm

ende

d le

vels

for h

uman

con

sum

ptio

n.

Res

iden

ts o

f Dél

ine

have

bee

n m

ade

awar

e of

the

high

mer

cury

con

tent

of t

he fi

sh in

Lac

Ste.

The

rese

. In

198

0, D

FO p

rohi

bite

d th

e sa

le fo

r hum

an c

onsu

mpt

ion

of a

harv

est o

f lak

e tro

ut, n

orth

ern

pike

, and

wal

leye

from

Lac

Ste

The

rese

. Th

ere

is n

ore

cord

of c

omm

erci

al fi

shin

g at

the

lake

sin

ce 1

980.

(Si

ncla

ir et

al.

1967

; Bis

sett

1972

;D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; Y

arem

chuk

et a

l. 19

89; S

teph

ens

1995

; NLU

IS 9

6A; L

.Lo

ckha

rt an

d G

. Low

, per

s. c

omm

.; D

FO, u

npub

l. da

ta)

lake

trou

t--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1961

--297

kg;

1962

--2,5

46 k

g;19

80--6

1 kg

lake

whi

tefis

h--n

o qu

ota

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1962

--2,3

51 k

g;19

79--5

50 k

g;19

80--3

63 k

g

north

ern

pike

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1984

--162

cau

ght,

24 k

ept;

wal

leye

[6

yr 2

,800

]Sp

ort h

arve

st:

1984

--318

cau

ght,

100

kept

;

Expe

rimen

tal h

arve

st:

1961

--500

kg;

1962

--16,

754

kg;

1973

--189

kg;

1980

--190

kg

Lost

Hill

Lake

65°4

0'N

, 123

°23'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs h

ave

fishe

d fo

r the

mse

lves

and

thei

r dog

s at

this

lake

. (R

ushf

orth

1976

; NLU

IS 9

6G)

Man

Dro

wne

d H

imse

lf La

ke

65°4

2'N

, 123

°12'

W

Hun

ters

and

trap

pers

hav

e fis

hed

for t

hem

selv

es a

nd th

eir d

ogs

at th

is la

ke.

(NLU

IS96

G)

Tatu

i Lak

e65

°58'

N, 1

23°0

2'W

Hun

ters

and

trap

pers

hav

e fis

hed

for t

hem

selv

es a

nd th

eir d

ogs

at th

is la

ke.

(Rus

hfor

th19

76)

Tilc

huse

Riv

er(C

ruik

shan

k R

iver

)65

°52.

5'N

, 117

°35'

W

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

--no

quot

aSp

ort h

arve

st:

1988

--1 fi

sh (3

.3 fi

sh c

augh

tpe

r ang

ler h

r);

Gue

sts

of B

rans

on's

Lod

ge s

omet

imes

vis

it th

e ra

pids

bel

ow C

ruik

shan

ks L

ake

to a

ngle

for A

rctic

gra

ylin

g. (

L. A

nder

son

and

C. P

lum

mer

, per

s. c

omm

.)

Tuita

tui L

ake

64°4

6'N

, 123

°15'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs h

ave

fishe

d fo

r the

mse

lves

and

thei

r dog

s at

this

lake

. (N

LUIS

96G

)

Tabl

e 3.

Con

tinue

d.

LOC

ATIO

N1

QU

OTA

(kg

rdw

t)2ES

TIM

ATED

TO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

or k

g rd

wt)3

STO

CK

STA

TUS

(ref

eren

ces)

Tuna

go L

ake

66°2

0'N

, 126

°00'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs fr

om F

ort G

ood

Hop

e w

ho v

isit

Tuna

go L

ake

in fa

ll an

d w

inte

r fis

hth

ere

to p

rovi

de fo

od fo

r the

mse

lves

and

thei

r dog

s. W

hite

fish,

lake

trou

t, Ar

ctic

gray

ling,

nor

ther

n pi

ke a

nd b

urbo

t are

har

vest

ed.

(Bis

sett

1972

; Tap

tuna

and

Low

199

5;N

LUIS

Map

96K

)

unna

med

lake

65°0

2'N

, 121

°20'

WLa

ke tr

out a

nd w

hite

fish

are

repo

rted

to m

igra

te u

pstre

am fr

om M

cVic

ar A

rm in

to th

isla

ke in

ear

ly J

une.

(N

LUIS

96H

)

unna

med

lake

65°1

0'N

, 123

°25'

WBr

oad

whi

tefis

h an

d bu

rbot

wer

e co

llect

ed fr

om th

is la

ke n

ear D

élin

e fo

r gen

etic

and

toxi

colo

gica

l stu

dies

in O

ctob

er 1

985.

(R

eist

198

7; L

ockh

art e

t al.

1989

)

unna

med

lake

65°3

1'N

, 118

°54'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs fr

om D

élin

e an

d R

ae L

akes

who

vis

ited

this

are

a in

win

ter

occa

sion

ally

fish

ed in

this

lake

for s

ubsi

sten

ce.

(NLU

IS M

ap 8

6E)

unna

med

lake

66°3

3'N

, 119

°18'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs fr

om D

élin

e w

ho v

isite

d "C

arib

ou P

oint

" in

win

ter h

ave

occa

sion

ally

fish

ed in

this

unn

amed

lake

for s

ubsi

sten

ce.

(Rus

hfor

th 1

976;

NLU

IS M

ap86

L)

unna

med

lake

(Joh

nny

Hoe

Riv

er)

64°2

2'N

, 122

°00'

W

Trap

pers

hav

e fis

hed

this

unn

amed

lake

in th

e w

inte

r. (B

isse

tt 19

67; N

LUIS

96A

)

unna

med

lake

(Joh

nny

Hoe

Riv

er)

64°4

7'N

, 121

°31'

W

Res

iden

ts o

f Dél

ine

have

con

duct

ed a

sub

sist

ence

fish

ery

at th

is la

ke o

n th

e Jo

hnny

Hoe

Riv

er s

yste

m.

(Bis

sett

1967

; NLU

IS 9

6A)

unna

med

lake

(S

loan

Riv

er)

66°3

6'N

, 116

°25'

W

An e

xper

imen

tal g

illnet

fish

ery

in 1

977

caug

ht la

ke tr

out,

long

nose

suc

ker,

and

roun

dw

hite

fish

at th

is u

nnam

ed la

ke o

n th

e Sl

oan

Riv

er s

yste

m.

Seve

ral s

ites

upst

ream

from

the

settl

emen

t are

a w

ere

also

sam

pled

. (S

tew

art a

nd M

acD

onal

d 19

78)

Whi

te W

ater

Lily

Lak

e65

°46'

, 124

°08'

WH

unte

rs a

nd tr

appe

rs h

ave

fishe

d fo

r the

mse

lves

and

thei

r dog

s at

this

lake

. (N

LUIS

96F)

Whi

tefis

h La

ke65

°43'

N, 1

25°0

0'W

lake

trou

t + la

kew

hite

fish

5

0019

82--0

kg;

Whi

tefis

h la

ke w

as o

pene

d by

Var

iatio

n O

rder

for c

omm

erci

al fi

shin

g an

nual

ly fr

om19

82-8

7. N

o re

cord

of c

omm

erci

al h

arve

st.

(Yar

emch

uk e

t al.

1989

)

Whi

tefis

h R

iver

65°5

2'N

, 124

°45'

Wla

ke w

hite

fish

--no

quot

aSu

bsis

tenc

e ha

rves

t:19

45--4

0,00

0 kg

(est

.)Th

e W

hite

fish

Riv

er s

uppo

rts a

n im

porta

nt fa

ll su

bsis

tenc

e fis

hery

by

resi

dent

s of

Dél

ine.

Lak

e w

hite

fish

are

take

n by

gilln

et a

s th

ey e

nter

the

river

from

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

from

abo

ut m

id-A

ugus

t thr

ough

mid

-Sep

tem

ber.

The

fish

are

froz

en a

nd s

tore

d fo

rw

inte

r con

sum

ptio

n an

d do

gfoo

d (s

ee a

lso

Tabl

e 1,

SM

ITH

AR

M).

Nor

ther

n pi

kem

igra

te u

pstre

am in

the

Whi

tefis

h R

iver

in e

arly

Jun

e an

d m

ove

dow

nstre

am in

toBy

dand

Bay

in la

te O

ctob

er.

Spor

t fis

herm

en fr

om T

roph

y Lo

dge

visi

t the

rive

r to

angl

efo

r nor

ther

n pi

ke.

(Mille

r 194

7; V

illier

s 19

67; N

LUIS

96F

; Tro

phy

Lodg

e Br

ochu

re)

Yeta

Lak

e65

°36'

N, 1

18°4

6'W

Hun

ters

and

trap

pers

from

Dél

ine

and

Rae

Lak

es w

ho v

isite

d th

is a

rea

in w

inte

roc

casi

onal

ly fi

shed

in Y

eta

Lake

for s

ubsi

sten

ce.

(NLU

IS M

ap 8

6E)

Tabl

e 3.

Con

tinue

d.

1 Old

or a

ltern

ate

nam

es fo

r the

fish

erie

s ar

e sh

own

in b

rack

ets.

2 A ro

und

wei

ght (

kg rd

wt)

is th

at fo

r a w

hole

fish

, whi

le a

dre

ssed

wei

ght i

s th

at o

f a fi

sh w

ith th

e vi

scer

a an

d gi

lls re

mov

ed.

Squa

re b

rack

ets

indi

cate

pro

visi

onal

test

quot

as.

The

quot

a ye

ars

are

the

sam

e as

the

fede

ral g

over

nmen

t fis

cal y

ear (

e.g.

the

1995

quo

ta e

xten

ds fr

om 1

Apr

il 19

95 to

31

Mar

ch 1

996)

. "N

A" in

dica

tes

that

aha

rves

t may

hav

e ta

ken

plac

e bu

t tha

t no

data

are

ava

ilabl

e; "

NF"

indi

cate

s th

at a

wat

erbo

dy w

as o

pene

d fo

r fis

hing

by

Varia

tion

Ord

er b

ut w

as n

ot fi

shed

. 3 U

nles

s ot

herw

ise

note

d th

e ha

rves

ts w

ere

take

n by

com

mer

cial

or e

xper

imen

tal f

ishe

ries.

The

"sub

sist

ence

har

vest

s" w

ere

take

n by

resi

dent

s fo

r the

ir ow

n us

e,"e

xper

imen

tal h

arve

sts"

wer

e ta

ken

for s

cien

tific

pur

pose

s, a

nd th

e "s

port

harv

ests

" wer

e ta

ken

by a

ngle

rs.

Spor

t har

vest

dat

a ar

e th

e "to

tal e

stim

ated

spo

rt ha

rves

t"w

hich

incl

udes

fish

kep

t as

troph

ies,

eat

en fo

r sho

re lu

nch,

and

whi

ch w

ere

rele

ased

and

sub

sequ

ently

die

d (e

stim

ated

at 7

% b

y Fa

lk e

t al.

1974

b).

Thes

e da

ta w

ere

from

the

DFO

ang

ler d

iary

pro

gram

, 198

7-90

(L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.).

Tabl

e 4.

A s

umm

ary

of h

arve

st a

nd c

reel

cen

sus

data

for s

port

fishi

ng lo

dges

on

Gre

at B

ear L

ake,

NW

T.

SPEC

IES

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

kille

d)1

AVER

AGE

NU

MB

ER O

F FI

SHC

AUG

HT

PER

ANG

LER

HO

UR

2

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

NU

MB

ERO

F AN

GLE

RD

AYS3

CO

MM

ENTS

(ref

eren

ces)

4

ARC

TIC

CIR

CLE

LO

DG

E (6

6°20

'N, 1

17°4

7'W

)Es

tabl

ishe

d in

196

5, th

is lo

dge

is s

ituat

ed a

t the

sou

thea

ster

n en

d of

Gre

at B

ear

Lake

(Fig

. 3).

It o

pera

tes

durin

g Ju

ly a

nd A

ugus

t with

a g

uest

bed

cap

acity

of 3

4.

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trou

t, an

d no

rther

n pi

ke a

re th

e m

ain

spec

ies

soug

ht.

Lodg

egu

ests

fish

mai

nly

in n

orth

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m (F

ig. 4

). S

ome

gues

ts a

re a

lso

flow

n to

the

Cop

perm

ine

Riv

er, o

n th

e co

ast i

n th

e N

unav

ut S

ettle

men

t Are

a, to

fish

for A

rctic

char

r, an

d to

an

outp

ost c

amp

abou

t 100

km

to th

e w

est o

n H

ornb

y Ba

y (6

6°30

'N,

118°

08'W

), to

fish

for l

ake

trout

. Th

e lo

dge

parti

cipa

ted

in a

num

ber o

f DFO

cre

elce

nsus

es b

etw

een

1972

and

198

4, a

nd in

DFO

's a

ngle

r dia

ry p

rogr

am in

198

7-90

. Th

ese

prog

ram

s w

ere

desi

gned

to g

athe

r the

dat

a ne

eded

to m

anag

e th

e sp

ort

fishe

ry.

Dat

a fro

m th

e 19

87 a

ngle

r dia

ry p

rogr

am is

om

itted

due

to lo

w a

ngle

rpa

rtici

patio

n. A

rctic

Circ

le L

odge

was

clo

sed

in 1

991

and

will

rem

ain

clos

ed th

roug

hth

e 19

95 s

easo

n. (

Falk

et a

l. 19

73a,

197

5; Y

arem

chuk

198

6; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; And

erso

n an

d Th

omps

on 1

991;

ED

T 19

95; L

. And

erso

n an

d C

. Plu

mm

er,

pers

. com

m.)

Arct

icgr

aylin

g19

75--1

5 ke

pt (R

);19

84--1

21 k

ept

(R);

1988

--84;

1989

--51;

1990

--39;

1991

--NA5 ;

1992

-94-

-0;

-5

0.59

1.70

1.70

0.90 - -

-79

(R)

147

95 79 - 0

DFO

reco

rded

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

975

and

1984

. Th

eyes

timat

ed th

e sp

ort h

arve

sts

of g

rayl

ing

in 1

988-

90 u

sing

dat

a fro

m th

e an

gler

dia

rypr

ogra

m.

(Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

197

8a; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; L

. And

erso

n,pe

rs. c

omm

.)

lake

trou

t19

72--1

,484

;19

75--2

,325

;19

84--2

,345

;19

88--1

,150

;19

89--1

,005

;19

90--8

39;

1991

--NA;

1992

-94-

-0;

-1.

751.

011.

152.

211.

23 - -

784

860

1,38

11,

181

689

730 - 0

Spor

t har

vest

s of

lake

trou

t wer

e es

timat

ed fr

om c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

e gu

ests

. Th

e 19

72 e

stim

ate

is b

ased

on

a ca

tch

sum

mar

y pr

ovid

ed to

DFO

by

the

lodg

e. I

n19

75 a

nd 1

984,

DFO

con

duct

ed th

e cr

eel c

ensu

ses

and

sam

pled

lake

trou

t fro

man

gler

's c

atch

es.

Lodg

e gu

ides

als

o re

cord

ed fi

eld

data

on

lake

trou

t as

part

of a

nin

tens

ive

cree

l cen

sus

cond

ucte

d by

DFO

in 1

984.

Est

imat

es o

f the

spo

rt ha

rves

t of

trout

in 1

988-

90 w

ere

gene

rate

d by

DFO

from

dat

a ga

ther

ed b

y th

e an

gler

dia

rypr

ogra

m. (

Falk

et a

l. 19

73a;

Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

197

8a; Y

arem

chuk

198

6;R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

lake

whi

tefis

h19

84--6

kep

t (R

);0.

196

(R)

DFO

reco

rded

lake

whi

tefis

h fro

m a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

198

4. (

Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge19

89)

north

ern

pike

1975

--0 k

ept (

R);

1984

--2 k

ept (

R);

1988

--64;

1989

--50;

1990

--13;

1991

--NA;

1992

-94-

-0;

-0.

271.

942.

731.

18 - -

-6(

R)

163

74 62 - 0

DFO

reco

rded

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

5 an

d 19

84.

They

est

imat

edth

e sp

ort h

arve

sts

of p

ike

in 1

988-

90 u

sing

dat

a fro

m th

e an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am.

(Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

197

8a; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

Tabl

e 4.

Con

tinue

d.

SPEC

IES

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

kille

d)1

AVER

AGE

NU

MB

ER O

F FI

SHC

AUG

HT

PER

ANG

LER

HO

UR

2

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

NU

MB

ERO

F AN

GLE

RD

AYS3

CO

MM

ENTS

(ref

eren

ces)

4

BR

ANSO

N'S

LO

DG

E (6

6°03

'N, 1

17°4

8'W

)Es

tabl

ishe

d in

the

early

196

0's,

this

lodg

e is

situ

ated

on

the

north

east

ern

shor

e of

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

at th

e ol

d to

wn

of C

amer

on B

ay (F

ig. 3

). It

ope

rate

s du

ring

July

and

Augu

st w

ith a

gue

st b

ed c

apac

ity o

f 40,

and

has

out

post

cam

p at

Kat

seye

die

Riv

er (6

6°31

.5'N

, 123

°10'

W) o

n th

e no

rth s

hore

of S

mith

Arm

. Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ketro

ut, a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s so

ught

. Lo

dge

gues

ts fi

sh m

ostly

inso

uthe

rn M

cTav

ish

Arm

(Fig

. 4).

The

y ca

n al

so fl

y-in

to n

orth

ern

McT

avis

h Ar

m a

ndSm

ith A

rm to

fish

for t

rout

; to

Lac

Ste.

The

rese

(64°

38'N

, 121

°32'

W) a

nd B

lack

wat

erLa

ke (6

4°00

'N, 1

23°0

5'W

) for

gra

ylin

g, tr

out,

pike

and

wal

leye

; and

to th

eC

oppe

rmin

e (6

7°49

'N, 1

15°0

4'W

) and

Kug

aryu

ak (6

7°42

'N, 1

13°1

9'W

) riv

ers

for

Arct

ic c

harr.

The

lodg

e pa

rtici

pate

d in

a n

umbe

r of c

reel

cen

suse

s be

twee

n 19

71an

d 19

84, a

nd in

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

in 1

987-

90.

Thes

e pr

ogra

ms

wer

ede

sign

ed b

y D

FO to

gat

her t

he d

ata

need

ed to

man

age

the

spor

t fis

hery

. Th

e lo

dge

was

clo

sed

in 1

991

and

was

stil

l clo

sed

at th

e tim

e of

writ

ing.

(Fa

lk e

t al.

1973

a,19

74a,

197

5; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

983;

Yar

emch

uk 1

986;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n19

88; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; A

nder

son

and

Thom

pson

199

1; E

DT

1995

; L.

Ande

rson

and

C. P

lum

mer

, per

s. c

omm

.)

Arct

icgr

aylin

g19

73--0

kep

t (R

);19

74--3

6 ke

pt (R

);19

78--7

92 k

ept

(R);

1984

--90

kept

(R);

1987

--267

;19

88--3

23;

1989

--196

;19

90--1

28;

1991

--NA5 ;

1992

-94-

-0;

- - -0.

482.

432.

082.

192.

42 - -

- - -10

2 (R

)24

036

223

511

3 - 0

DFO

reco

rded

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

in a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

3, 1

974,

and

197

8. A

few

gray

ling

wer

e sa

mpl

ed fr

om th

e an

gler

's c

reel

s in

197

1-73

. Es

timat

es o

f the

spo

rtha

rves

ts o

f gra

ylin

g in

198

7-90

wer

e ge

nera

ted

by D

FO u

sing

dat

a fro

m th

e an

gler

diar

y pr

ogra

m.

Gue

sts

also

vis

it th

e C

amse

ll (6

5°40

'N, 1

18°0

7'W

) and

Cru

iksh

ank

river

s to

ang

le fo

r for

gra

ylin

g. (

Falk

and

Dah

lke

1974

; Fal

k et

al.

1974

a, 1

975;

Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

198

3; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

trou

t19

71--p

artia

l cre

el;

1972

--3,6

35;

1973

--par

tial c

reel

;19

74--3

,963

1978

--1,9

35;

1984

--2,5

64;

1987

--1,8

15;

1988

--1,7

80;

1989

--1,3

53;

1990

--1,2

29;

1991

--NA;

1992

-94-

-0;

- -0.

750.

930.

830.

741.

080.

931.

161.

28 - -

-1,

320

- -1,

250

2,19

91,

620

1,82

81,

398

912 - 0

DFO

est

imat

ed th

e sp

ort h

arve

st o

f lak

e tro

ut u

sing

dat

a fro

m c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

e gu

ests

in 1

972,

197

5, 1

978,

and

198

4, fr

om a

ngle

r dia

ries

in 1

987-

90.

They

sam

pled

lake

trou

t fro

m a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

2, 1

974,

197

8, a

nd 1

984.

Par

tial c

reel

cens

uses

wer

e co

nduc

ted

in 1

971

and

1973

. (F

alk

et a

l. 19

73a,

197

4a+c

, 197

5;M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

978b

, 198

3; Y

arem

chuk

198

6; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; L.

Ande

rson

, per

s. c

omm

.)

lake

whi

tefis

h19

84--0

kep

t (R

);0.

251(

R)

DFO

sam

pled

a fe

w la

ke w

hite

fish

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

972,

and

reco

rded

lake

whi

tefis

h in

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

984.

(Fa

lk a

nd D

ahlk

e 19

74; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

1989

)

Tabl

e 4.

Con

tinue

d.

SPEC

IES

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

kille

d)1

AVER

AGE

NU

MB

ER O

F FI

SHC

AUG

HT

PER

ANG

LER

HO

UR

2

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

NU

MB

ERO

F AN

GLE

RD

AYS3

CO

MM

ENTS

(ref

eren

ces)

4

north

ern

pike

1973

--0 k

ept (

R);

1974

--2 k

ept (

R);

1978

--77

kept

(R);

1984

--15

kept

(R);

1987

--31;

1988

--66;

1989

--55;

1990

--42;

1991

--NA;

1992

-94-

-0;

- - -0.

331.

441.

841.

461.

91 - -

- - -38

(R)

74 96 122

71 - 0

DFO

reco

rded

nor

ther

n pi

ke in

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

973,

197

4, 1

978,

and

198

4. T

hey

estim

ated

the

spor

t har

vest

of p

ike

in 1

987-

90, u

sing

dat

a ga

ther

ed b

y th

e an

gler

diar

y pr

ogra

m.

(Fal

k et

al.

1974

a, 1

975;

Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

198

3; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

GR

EAT

BEA

R L

OD

GE

Esta

blis

hed

in 1

965,

at S

awm

ill Ba

y (6

5°43

'N, 1

18°5

4'W

), th

is lo

dge

now

hou

ses

itsgu

ests

at i

ts N

eila

nd B

ay o

utpo

st (6

5°44

'N, 1

19°4

7'W

) on

the

sout

h sh

ore

of G

reat

Bear

Lak

e (F

ig. 3

). T

he lo

dge

still

uses

runw

ay fa

cilit

ies

at S

awm

ill Ba

y, b

ut h

as n

otho

used

ang

lers

ther

e si

nce

the

1980

's.

Anot

her o

utpo

st a

t Bea

r Isl

and

(65°

33'N

,11

9°58

'W) h

as b

een

clos

ed s

ince

198

9. G

reat

Bea

r Lod

ge o

pera

tes

durin

g Ju

ly a

ndAu

gust

with

a g

uest

bed

cap

acity

of 5

4. A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ke tr

out,

and

north

ern

pike

are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s so

ught

. Lo

dge

gues

ts fi

sh m

ainl

y in

nor

ther

n M

cVic

ar A

rm(F

ig. 4

). T

hey

can

also

take

fly-

in tr

ips

to H

otta

h La

ke (6

5°10

'N, 1

18°3

5'W

) to

fish

for l

ake

trout

and

nor

ther

n pi

ke.

The

lodg

e pa

rtici

pate

d in

a n

umbe

r of c

reel

cens

uses

bet

wee

n 19

71 a

nd 1

984,

and

in th

e an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am fr

om 1

987-

89.

Thes

e pr

ogra

ms

wer

e de

sign

ed b

y D

FO to

col

lect

the

data

nee

ded

to m

anag

e th

esp

ort f

ishe

ry.

The

Nei

land

Bay

out

post

has

bee

n cl

osed

sin

ce 1

990,

to fa

cilit

ate

stoc

k re

cove

ry.

(Fal

k et

al.

1973

a, 1

974a

+c; W

ong

and

Willa

ns 1

973;

Yar

emch

uk19

86; A

nder

son

and

Thom

pson

199

1; E

DT

1995

; L. A

nder

son

and

C. P

lum

mer

,pe

rs. c

omm

.)

Arct

icgr

aylin

g19

72--9

7 ke

pt (R

);19

73--6

5 ke

pt (R

);19

79--1

4 ke

pt (R

);19

84--1

17 k

ept

(R);

1987

--145

;19

88--1

46;

1989

--152

:19

90-9

4--0

;

- - -0.

661.

932.

322.

07 -

435

(R)

- -17

4 (R

)23

014

320

3 0

DFO

reco

rded

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

972

(Nei

land

Bay

), 19

73(N

eila

nd B

ay),

1979

(Bea

r Isl

and)

, and

198

4 (b

oth)

. A

few

gra

ylin

g fro

m a

ngle

r'scr

eels

wer

e sa

mpl

ed in

197

1-73

. D

FO e

stim

ated

the

spor

t har

vest

of g

rayl

ing

in19

87-8

9 us

ing

data

from

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

. Fi

sher

men

from

the

lodg

e ar

eal

so fl

own

to B

lack

wat

er L

ake

(64°

00'N

, 123

°05'

W) o

r the

mou

th o

f the

Gre

at B

ear

Riv

er fo

r gra

ylin

g fis

hing

. (F

alk

et a

l. 19

73a,

197

4a, 1

982;

Fal

k an

d D

ahlk

e 19

74;

Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

Tabl

e 4.

Con

tinue

d.

SPEC

IES

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

kille

d)1

AVER

AGE

NU

MB

ER O

F FI

SHC

AUG

HT

PER

ANG

LER

HO

UR

2

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

NU

MB

ERO

F AN

GLE

RD

AYS3

CO

MM

ENTS

(ref

eren

ces)

4

lake

trou

t19

71--p

artia

l cre

el;

1972

--2,4

96 k

ept;

1973

--2,2

92;

1974

--par

tial c

reel

;19

79-->

1,02

6;19

84--1

,626

;19

87--1

,153

;19

88--7

46;

1989

--868

;19

90-9

4--0

;

- -0.

66 -0.

781.

021.

351.

341.

16 -

-43

5 (R

)- -

1,19

51,

068

1,15

574

897

0 0

DFO

est

imat

ed th

e sp

ort h

arve

sts

of la

ke tr

out f

rom

cre

el c

ensu

ses

of lo

dge

gues

tsin

197

2, 1

973,

197

9 an

d 19

84, a

nd fr

om th

e an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am in

198

7-89

. Th

eysa

mpl

ed la

ke tr

out f

rom

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

972

and

1973

at t

he N

eila

nd B

ayO

utpo

st, i

n 19

79 a

t the

Bea

r Isl

and

Out

post

, and

in 1

984

at b

oth.

The

197

2 an

d19

73 e

stim

ates

for a

sin

gle

outp

ost w

ere

extra

pola

ted

to g

ive

the

lodg

e's

tota

l lak

etro

ut h

arve

st.

The

1979

har

vest

est

imat

e is

low

sin

ce it

is o

nly

for t

he B

ear I

slan

dO

utpo

st.

Lodg

e gu

ides

als

o re

cord

ed fi

eld

data

on

lake

trou

t as

part

of a

n in

tens

ive

cree

l cen

sus

cond

ucte

d by

DFO

in 1

984.

(F

alk

et a

l. 19

73a,

197

4a+c

, 197

5, 1

982;

Yare

mch

uk 1

986;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n 19

88; L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

whi

tefis

h19

79--0

kep

t (R

);-

-D

FO re

cord

ed la

ke w

hite

fish

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

979

(Bea

r Isl

and)

. (F

alk

et a

l.19

82)

north

ern

pike

1973

--15

kept

(R);

1979

--8 k

ept (

R);

1984

--6 k

ept (

R);

1987

--52;

1988

--64;

1989

--55;

1990

-94-

-0;

- -0.

783.

834.

452.

24 -

- -50

(R)

120

84 144 0

DFO

reco

rded

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

3 (N

eila

nd B

ay),

1979

(Bea

rIs

land

), an

d 19

84 (b

oth)

. Th

ey e

stim

ated

the

spor

t har

vest

of p

ike

in 1

987-

89 u

sing

data

from

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

. (F

alk

et a

l. 19

74a,

198

2; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

1989

; L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

PLU

MM

ER'S

GR

EAT

BEA

R L

AKE

LOD

GE

(66°

43'N

, 119

°42'

W)

Esta

blis

hed

at it

s pr

esen

t loc

atio

n in

196

8 (p

rior t

o th

is ti

me

it w

as lo

cate

d on

Con

juro

rBa

y of

McT

avis

h Ar

m),

this

lodg

e is

situ

ated

on

the

Dea

se A

rm o

f Gre

at B

ear L

ake

(Fig

.3)

. It

oper

ates

dur

ing

July

and

Aug

ust w

ith a

gue

st b

ed c

apac

ity o

f 54.

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing,

lake

trou

t, an

d no

rther

n pi

ke a

re th

e m

ain

spec

ies

soug

ht.

Lodg

e gu

ests

fish

mos

tly in

Dea

se A

rm, a

nd s

ome

also

vis

it no

rther

n M

cTav

ish

Arm

to fi

sh fo

r tro

ut (F

ig. 4

). T

helo

dge

has

an o

utpo

st c

amp

at T

ree

Riv

er, i

n th

e N

unav

ut S

ettle

men

t Are

a, w

here

gue

sts

are

flow

n to

fish

for A

rctic

cha

rr. T

hey

can

also

fly-

in to

the

Cop

perm

ine

Riv

er (6

7°49

'W,

115°

04'W

) to

fish

for c

harr

in th

e N

unav

ut S

ettle

men

t Are

a, a

nd to

the

"Sul

ky R

iver

"(6

7°00

'N, 1

19°3

4'W

) to

fish

for g

rayl

ing.

The

lodg

e pa

rtici

pate

d in

a n

umbe

r of c

reel

cens

uses

bet

wee

n 19

72 a

nd 1

984,

and

in a

n an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am fr

om 1

987-

90.

Thes

est

udie

s w

ere

desi

gned

by

DFO

to c

olle

ct th

e da

ta n

eede

d to

man

age

the

spor

t fis

hery

. Th

e 19

87 d

ata

are

not i

nclu

ded

here

due

to a

low

ang

ler r

espo

nse

rate

. (M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

983;

Yar

emch

uk 1

986;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n 19

88; A

nder

son

and

Thom

pson

1991

; ED

T 19

95; L

. And

erso

n an

d C

. Plu

mm

er, p

ers.

com

m.)

Arct

icgr

aylin

g19

73--1

97 k

ept

(R);

1977

--212

kep

t(R

);19

84--6

85 k

ept

(R);

1988

--1,0

28;

1989

--561

;19

90--2

61;

1991

-94-

-NA;

- -1.

084.

012.

162.

47 -

- -34

1 (R

)47

538

218

3 -

Fish

erm

en a

ngle

for g

rayl

ing

near

the

lodg

e. D

FO re

cord

ed A

rctic

gra

ylin

g in

angl

er's

cre

els

in 1

973,

197

7 an

d 19

84, a

nd s

ampl

ed a

few

fish

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

972

and

1973

. Th

ey e

stim

ated

the

spor

t har

vest

s of

gra

ylin

g in

198

8-90

usi

ngda

ta fr

om th

e an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am.

(Fal

k et

al.

1973

a, 1

974a

; Fal

k an

d D

ahlk

e19

74; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

983;

Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

L. A

nder

son,

per

s.co

mm

.)

Tabl

e 4.

Con

tinue

d.

SPEC

IES

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

kille

d)1

AVER

AGE

NU

MB

ER O

F FI

SHC

AUG

HT

PER

ANG

LER

HO

UR

2

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

NU

MB

ERO

F AN

GLE

RD

AYS3

CO

MM

ENTS

(ref

eren

ces)

4

lake

trou

t19

72--6

,828

;19

73--5

,494

;19

77--3

,413

;19

84--3

,932

;19

88--1

,811

;19

89--1

,328

;19

90--8

84;

1991

-94-

-NA;

-0.

740.

561.

051.

351.

101.

16 -

3,19

2-

2,63

52,

191

1,49

61,

251

714 -

Spor

t har

vest

s of

lake

trou

t wer

e es

timat

ed b

y D

FO fr

om c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

e gu

ests

in 1

972,

197

3, 1

977

and

1984

, and

from

ang

ler d

iarie

s in

198

8-90

. Tr

out f

rom

ang

ler's

cree

ls w

ere

sam

pled

in 1

972,

197

3, 1

977,

and

198

4. L

odge

gui

des

also

reco

rded

fiel

dda

ta o

n la

ke tr

out a

s pa

rt of

an

inte

nsiv

e cr

eel c

ensu

s co

nduc

ted

by D

FO in

198

4. (F

alk

et a

l. 19

73a,

197

4a+c

, 197

5; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

983;

Yar

emch

uk 1

986;

Rob

erge

and

Dun

n 19

88; L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

lake

whi

tefis

h19

84--0

kep

t (R

);0.

942

(R)

DFO

sam

pled

a fe

w la

ke w

hite

fish

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

972,

and

reco

rded

lake

whi

tefis

h in

gue

sts

cree

ls in

198

4. (

Falk

and

Dah

lke

1974

; Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989)

north

ern

pike

1973

--1 k

ept (

R);

1984

--15

kept

(R);

1988

--11;

1989

--8;

1990

--44;

1991

-94-

-0;

-0.

381.

531.

120.

99 -

-12

(R)

18 14 28 0

DFO

sam

pled

a fe

w n

orth

ern

pike

from

ang

ler's

cre

els

in 1

972,

and

reco

rded

north

ern

pike

in a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

3 an

d 19

84.

They

est

imat

ed th

e sp

ort h

arve

stof

pik

e in

198

8-90

usi

ng d

ata

from

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

. (F

alk

et a

l. 19

74a;

Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

L. A

nder

son,

per

s. c

omm

.)

TRO

PHY

LOD

GE

(62°

43'N

, 109

°10'

W)

Esta

blis

hed

in 1

967,

this

lodg

e is

situ

ated

on

Ford

Bay

in th

e Sm

ith A

rm o

f Gre

at B

ear

Lake

, and

ope

rate

s an

out

post

cam

p at

Goo

d H

ope

Bay

(66°

19'N

, 124

°20'

W) (

Fig.

3).

Itop

erat

es d

urin

g Ju

ly a

nd A

ugus

t with

a g

uest

bed

cap

acity

of 4

0. A

rctic

gra

ylin

g, la

ketro

ut, a

nd n

orth

ern

pike

are

the

mai

n sp

ecie

s so

ught

. Lo

dge

gues

ts fi

sh m

ostly

in S

mith

Arm

, but

occ

asio

nally

vis

it Pr

eble

Bay

in K

eith

Arm

(Fig

. 4).

The

y ca

n al

so fl

y-in

to L

acBe

lot (

66°5

5'N

, 126

°18'

W),

Lac-

de-B

ois

(66°

40'N

, 125

°15'

W),

or o

ther

loca

tions

on

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er s

yste

m to

fish

for l

ake

trout

or n

orth

ern

pike

; to

the

Ande

rson

Riv

er(6

9°50

'N, 1

20°4

5'W

) to

fish

for i

ncon

nu; o

r to

the

Cop

perm

ine

Riv

er (6

7°49

'N,

115°

04'W

) to

fish

for A

rctic

cha

rr an

d Ar

ctic

gra

ylin

g. T

he lo

dge

parti

cipa

ted

in a

num

ber

of c

reel

cen

suse

s be

twee

n 19

72 a

nd 1

984,

and

in a

n an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am fr

om 1

987-

90.

Thes

e st

udie

s w

ere

desi

gned

by

DFO

to c

olle

ct th

e da

ta n

eede

d to

man

age

the

spor

t fis

hery

. (Y

arem

chuk

198

6; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; Dun

n an

d R

ober

ge 1

989;

Ande

rson

and

Tho

mps

on 1

991;

ED

T 19

95; L

. And

erso

n an

d C

. Plu

mm

er, p

ers.

com

m.)

Arct

icgr

aylin

g19

72--3

9 ke

pt (R

);19

73--4

59 k

ept

(R);

1976

--437

kep

t(R

);19

80--4

34 k

ept

(R);

1985

--762

kep

t(R

);19

87--1

,137

;19

88--5

77;

1989

--396

;19

90--3

13;

1991

-94-

-NA;

- - - -1.

615.

555.

133.

644.

82 -

- - - -35

1 (R

)47

041

832

320

5 -

Info

rmat

ion

on th

e 19

72 c

atch

was

pro

vide

d to

DFO

by

the

lodg

e. D

FO re

cord

edAr

ctic

gra

ylin

g fro

m a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

3, 1

976,

198

0 an

d 19

84, a

nd s

ampl

ed a

few

gra

ylin

g fro

m th

e an

gler

's c

reel

s in

197

3. T

hey

estim

ated

the

spor

t har

vest

of

gray

ling

in 1

987-

90 u

sing

dat

a fro

m th

e an

gler

dia

ry p

rogr

am.

(Fal

k et

al.

1973

a,19

74a;

Fal

k an

d D

ahlk

e 19

74; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

978a

; Gillm

an a

nd R

ober

ge19

82; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; L

. And

erso

n pe

rs. c

omm

.)

Tabl

e 4.

Con

tinue

d.

SPEC

IES

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

HAR

VEST

(#

of f

ish

kille

d)1

AVER

AGE

NU

MB

ER O

F FI

SHC

AUG

HT

PER

ANG

LER

HO

UR

2

ESTI

MAT

EDTO

TAL

NU

MB

ERO

F AN

GLE

RD

AYS3

CO

MM

ENTS

(ref

eren

ces)

4

lake

trou

t19

72--3

,709

;19

73--3

,850

;19

76--2

,758

;19

80--2

,497

;19

85--2

,965

;19

87--1

,717

;19

88--1

,094

;19

89--1

,170

;19

90--9

70;

1991

-94-

-NA;

-0.

830.

651.

230.

881.

601.

431.

351.

10 -

- -1,

600

1,99

51,

908

1,24

71,

005

1,10

180

9 -

Spor

t har

vest

s of

lake

trou

t wer

e es

timat

ed fr

om c

reel

cen

suse

s of

lodg

e gu

ests

prio

r to

1986

, and

from

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

in 1

987-

90 .

Info

rmat

ion

on th

e19

72 c

atch

was

pro

vide

d to

DFO

by

the

lodg

e. D

FO s

ampl

ed la

ke tr

out f

rom

angl

er's

cre

els

in 1

973,

197

6, 1

980,

and

198

5. T

hey

also

con

duct

ed a

nex

perim

enta

l gilln

et fi

sher

y in

the

area

in 1

980,

and

tagg

ed 4

05 la

ke tr

out.

Lod

gegu

ides

reco

rded

fiel

d da

ta o

n la

ke tr

out a

s pa

rt of

an

inte

nsiv

e cr

eel c

ensu

sco

nduc

ted

by D

FO in

198

4. (

Falk

et a

l. 19

73a,

197

4a+c

; Mos

henk

o an

d G

illman

1978

a; G

illman

and

Rob

erge

198

2; Y

arem

chuk

198

6; R

ober

ge a

nd D

unn

1988

; L.

Ande

rson

, per

s. c

omm

.)

north

ern

pike

1973

--53

kept

(R);

1976

--87

kept

(R);

1980

--126

kep

t(R

);19

85--1

72 k

ept

(R);

1987

--233

;19

88--1

50;

1989

--173

;19

90--1

74;

1991

-94-

-NA;

- - -1.

724.

774.

323.

674.

48 -

- - -18

9 (R

)22

018

419

617

1 -

DFO

reco

rded

nor

ther

n pi

ke fr

om a

ngle

r's c

reel

s in

197

3, 1

976,

198

0 an

d 19

84, a

ndsa

mpl

ed a

few

pik

e fro

m th

e an

gler

's c

reel

s in

197

3. T

hey

estim

ated

the

spor

tha

rves

ts o

f pik

e in

198

7-90

usi

ng d

ata

from

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

. An

gler

s ca

ntra

vel b

y bo

at to

a "h

otsp

ot" f

or p

ike

fishi

ng a

t the

Whi

tefis

h R

iver

(65°

52'N

,12

4°45

'W).

(Fa

lk e

t al.

1974

a; M

oshe

nko

and

Gillm

an 1

978a

; Gillm

an a

nd R

ober

ge19

82; D

unn

and

Rob

erge

198

9; L

. And

erso

n, p

ers.

com

m.)

1 Est

imat

es o

f the

tota

l num

ber o

f fis

h ki

lled

incl

ude

fish

reta

ined

("ke

pt")

as

troph

ies,

eat

en fo

r sho

re lu

nche

s, a

nd th

at d

ied

afte

r bei

ng re

leas

ed (e

stim

ated

at 7

% b

y Fa

lket

al.

1974

b).

The

1971

-3 h

arve

st e

stim

ates

for l

ake

trout

wer

e ta

ken

from

Fal

k et

al.

(197

5) w

ho re

calc

ulat

ed th

e or

igin

al d

ata

to re

flect

impr

oved

met

hodo

logy

. Th

ese

estim

ates

diff

er s

omew

hat f

rom

thos

e or

igin

ally

pub

lishe

d Fa

lk e

t al.

(197

3a, 1

974a

), an

d ar

e th

ough

t to

be m

ore

accu

rate

. W

here

an

estim

ate

of th

e to

tal h

arve

st w

as n

otav

aila

ble,

the

num

ber o

f fis

h ke

pt fo

r tro

phie

s is

sho

wn.

Whe

re th

ese

latte

r dat

a ar

e fo

llow

ed b

y an

"(R

)", t

hey

are

reco

rds

of th

e ac

tual

cre

el c

ensu

s da

ta a

nd, a

s su

ch,

unde

rest

imat

e bo

th th

e ac

tual

num

ber o

f fis

h ke

pt a

nd th

e to

tal n

umbe

r of f

ish

kille

d.

2 Sub

stan

tial d

iffer

ence

s ar

e no

ted

betw

een

the

catc

h pe

r uni

t effo

rt da

ta c

olle

cted

by

cree

l cen

sus

(197

3-84

) and

that

from

the

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

(198

7-90

). U

ntil

the

reas

ons

for t

hese

diff

eren

ces

are

unde

rsto

od, t

hese

dat

a sh

ould

not

be

com

pare

d di

rect

ly.

The

angl

er d

iary

pro

gram

dat

a sh

own

here

diff

ers

slig

htly

from

that

cal

cula

ted

by L

. And

erso

n (u

npub

l. da

ta).

She

did

not

con

side

r the

by-

catc

h of

dire

cted

ang

ling

(i.e.

pik

e ca

ught

whe

n fis

hing

for t

rout

) in

her c

alcu

latio

ns.

Con

sequ

ently

, her

cat

chpe

r uni

t of f

ishi

ng e

ffort

was

a fe

w p

erce

ntag

e po

ints

low

er o

n th

e w

hole

.

3 The

se d

ata

are

base

d on

ly o

n th

e lo

dge

gues

ts.

They

do

not c

onsi

der l

odge

em

ploy

ees

or o

ther

who

may

hav

e be

en fi

shin

g in

the

vici

nity

of a

lodg

e. D

ata

deno

ted

with

an "(

R)"

are

bas

ed o

n th

e ac

tual

cre

el c

ensu

s re

cord

s. T

hey

are

not e

stim

ates

of t

he to

tal n

umbe

r of a

ngle

r day

s.4 S

ourc

es o

f inf

orm

atio

n ar

e re

fere

nced

with

the

lodg

e to

whi

ch th

ey re

fer.

Out

fitte

rs o

pera

ting

from

com

mun

ities

or w

ith m

ovea

ble

cam

ps a

re n

ot li

sted

.

5 "NA"

and

das

hes

(-) in

dica

te th

at d

ata

wer

e no

t ava

ilabl

e.

Tabl

e 5.

Lic

ence

s to

take

fish

from

the

Saht

u D

ene

and

Met

is S

ettle

men

t Are

a fo

r sci

entif

ic p

urpo

ses

issu

ed b

y th

e D

epar

tmen

t of F

ishe

ries

and

Oce

ans

(DFO

), C

entra

l and

Arc

tic R

egio

n, to

DFO

(199

0-94

) and

non

-DFO

(198

5-94

) res

earc

hers

. N

ote:

DFO

did

not

beg

in is

suin

g lic

ence

sto

thei

r ow

n fis

herie

s pr

ogra

ms

until

199

0.

LIC

ENC

E H

OLD

ERAR

EAPU

RPO

SEPE

RIO

D

DFO

RES

EAR

CH

ERS

D.A

. Met

ner

DFO

, Win

nipe

g, M

BLa

c Be

lot a

ndC

olvi

lle L

ake

Col

lect

ion

of la

ke tr

out,

lake

whi

tefis

h, a

nd b

urbo

t for

hea

vy m

etal

and

oth

eran

alys

es.

(Mui

r et a

l. 19

94)

1993

R.F

. Tal

lman

DFO

, Win

nipe

g, M

BW

ater

s in

the

vici

nity

of N

orm

anW

ells

Col

lect

ion

of u

p to

200

inco

nnu

usin

g gi

llnet

s, a

nd ra

dio-

tagg

ing

of 2

0 in

conn

uto

iden

tify

spaw

ning

site

s an

d fo

llow

sea

sona

l fis

h m

ovem

ents

.19

94

B. H

unt

DFO

, Yel

low

knife

, NT

Gre

at B

ear L

ake

Col

lect

ion

of fi

shes

from

Gre

at B

ear L

ake.

1994

NO

N-D

FO R

ESEA

RC

HER

S

R. H

agen

Ren

ewab

le R

esou

rces

, GN

WT,

N

orm

an W

ells

, NT

Nor

man

Wel

lsIn

vest

igat

ion

of s

peci

es o

f fin

fish

pre

sent

in H

ogan

Lak

e, B

osw

orth

Cre

ek, a

ndEd

ie L

ake.

1993

B. H

umph

rey

Seak

em O

cean

ogra

phy,

Sidn

ey, B

C

Nor

man

Wel

ls a

rea

An a

sses

smen

t of f

resh

wat

er im

pact

s fro

m th

e N

orm

an W

ells

oilf

ield

deve

lopm

ent (

ESL

and

McC

art 1

986)

1986

J.D

. Mor

gan

EVS

Con

sulta

nts

N. V

anco

uver

, BC

Nor

man

Wel

ls a

rea

In s

itu b

ioas

says

of h

ydro

carb

on in

puts

usi

ng b

urbo

t and

Arc

tic g

rayl

ing.

(M

orga

n et

al.

1987

)19

85

R. O

lmst

edM

cLar

en P

lans

earc

h C

orp.

Vanc

ouve

r, BC

Fort

Nor

man

Fish

sam

plin

g to

mon

itor f

all f

ish

mig

ratio

ns.

1985

M. P

revo

stIn

land

Wat

ers

Dire

ctor

ate

Reg

ina,

SK

Nor

man

Wel

ls a

ndSa

ns S

ault

Rap

ids

Sam

plin

g of

fora

ge fi

sh fo

r che

mic

al a

naly

sis.

19

85

C. S

ikst

rom

Esso

Res

ourc

es,

Cal

gary

, AB

Nor

man

Wel

ls a

rea

Cap

ture

of f

ish

to a

naly

se th

eir t

issu

e fo

r lig

ht h

ydro

carb

on c

onta

min

atio

n.

(Daw

son

1985

)19

85

G. S

mith

Hat

field

Con

sulti

ngW

. Van

couv

er, B

C

Fort

Goo

d H

ope

and

Dél

ine

area

sC

aptu

re o

f bur

bot f

or s

tudi

es to

det

erm

ine

whe

ther

thei

r con

ditio

n is

rela

ted

tohy

droc

arbo

n ex

posu

re (L

ockh

art e

t al.

1989

)19

85

Appe

ndix

1.

Fish

spe

cies

repo

rted

from

the

Mac

kenz

ie R

iver

dra

inag

e ba

sin

with

in th

e Sa

htu

Den

e an

d M

etis

Set

tlem

ent A

rea

(Fig

. 2).

MAC

KEN

ZIE

RIV

ER T

RIB

UTA

RIE

S

Red

ston

eR

iver

(1)

Keel

eR

iver

(2)

Big

Smith

Cre

ek(3

)

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

Trib

utar

ies

Gre

atBe

arR

iver

(7)

Littl

e Be

arR

iver

(8)

Stew

art

Cre

ek(9

)

Osc

arC

reek

(10)

Car

cajo

uR

iver

(11)

Mou

ntai

nR

iver

(12)

Gre

at B

ear

Lake

(A)4

Porc

upin

eR

iver

(4)

St. C

harle

sC

reek

(5)

Brac

kett

Riv

er (6

)

Arct

ic c

isco

(C

oreg

onus

aut

umna

lis)

--

--

-P

PP

--

PP

P

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

(Thy

mal

lus

arct

icus

)P1

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

Arct

ic la

mpr

ey

(Lam

petra

japo

nica

)-

--

--

-P

P-

-P

--

broa

d w

hite

fish

(Cor

egon

us n

asus

)P

--

--

--

P-

-P

P-

burb

ot

(Lot

a lo

ta)

-P

-P

P-

PP

PP

P-

P

chum

sal

mon

(Onc

horh

ynch

us k

eta)

--

-P

--

--

--

--

-

dolly

var

den2

(Sal

velin

us m

alm

a)P

P-

P3-

--

P-

--

PP

emer

ald

shin

er(N

otro

pis

athe

rinoi

des)

--

--

--

-P

--

--

-

flath

ead

chub

(P

laty

gobi

o gr

acilis

)P

--

--

--

PP

PP

PP

gold

eye

(Hio

don

alos

oide

s)-

--

P-

--

PP

--

P-

inco

nnu

(Ste

nodu

s le

ucic

hthy

s)-

--

P-

PP

P-

PP

PP

lake

chu

b (C

oues

ius

plum

beus

)-

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

lake

cis

co

(Cor

egon

us a

rtedi

i)-

--

PP

PP

P-

-P

-P

lake

trou

t (S

alve

linus

nam

aycu

sh)

--

-P

--

PP

-P

-P

-

lake

whi

tefis

h (C

oreg

onus

clu

peaf

orm

is)

--

-P

-P

PP

PP

PP

-

Appe

ndix

1.

Con

tinue

d.

MAC

KEN

ZIE

RIV

ER T

RIB

UTA

RIE

S

Red

ston

eR

iver

(1)

Keel

eR

iver

(2)

Big

Smith

Cre

ek(3

)

Gre

at B

ear R

iver

Trib

utar

ies

Gre

atBe

arR

iver

(7)

Littl

e Be

arR

iver

(8)

Stew

art

Cre

ek(9

)

Osc

arC

reek

(10)

Car

cajo

uR

iver

(11)

Mou

ntai

nR

iver

(12)

Gre

at B

ear

Lake

(A)4

Porc

upin

eR

iver

(4)

St. C

harle

sC

reek

(5)

Brac

kett

Riv

er (6

)

leas

t cis

co

(Cor

egon

us s

ardi

nella

)-

--

--

-P

P-

-P

--

long

nose

dac

e (R

hini

chth

ys c

atar

acta

e)-

--

--

PP

PP

-P

--

long

nose

suc

ker (

Cat

osto

mus

cato

stom

us)

PP

PP

-P

PP

PP

PP

P

mou

ntai

n w

hite

fish

(Pro

sopi

um w

illiam

soni

)P

PP

--

-P

P-

-P

-P

nine

spin

e st

ickl

ebac

k(P

ungi

tius

pung

itius

)-

--

PP

--

P-

P-

PP

north

ern

pike

(E

sox

luci

us)

-P

PP

PP

PP

-P

PP

P

north

ern

redb

elly

dac

e(P

hoxi

nus

eos)

--

--

--

--

--

P-

-

pond

sm

elt

(Hyp

omes

us o

lidus

)-

--

P-

--

--

-P

--

roun

d w

hite

fish

(Pro

sopi

um c

ylin

drac

eum

)-

PP

PP

PP

P-

PP

-P

slim

y sc

ulpi

n (C

ottu

s co

gnat

us)

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

P

spoo

nhea

d sc

ulpi

n(C

ottu

s ric

ei)

--

--

--

--

-P

PP

P

spot

tail

shin

er

(Not

ropi

s hu

dson

ius)

--

--

--

PP

-P

--

-

trout

per

ch

(Per

cops

is o

mis

com

aycu

s)-

-P

P-

PP

PP

PP

PP

wal

leye

(S

tizos

tedi

on v

itreu

m v

itreu

m)

--

-P

--

PP

-P

PP

P

whi

te s

ucke

r (C

atas

tom

us c

omm

erso

ni)

--

P-

--

PP

--

P-

P

MAC

KEN

ZIE

RIV

ER T

RIB

UTA

RIE

SM

ACKE

NZI

ER

IVER

MAI

NST

EM

(B)

Han

naR

iver

(13)

Don

nelly

Riv

er(1

4)

Hum

eR

iver

(15)

Ram

parts

Riv

er(1

6)

Tsin

tuR

iver

(17)

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er(1

8)

Loon

Riv

er(1

9)

Tied

aR

iver

(20)

Ont

arat

ueR

iver

(21)

Arct

ic c

isco

(C

oreg

onus

aut

umna

lis)

-P

--

--

P-

-P

Appe

ndix

1.

Con

tinue

d.

MAC

KEN

ZIE

RIV

ER T

RIB

UTA

RIE

SM

ACKE

NZI

ER

IVER

MAI

NST

EM

(B)

Han

naR

iver

(13)

Don

nelly

Riv

er(1

4)

Hum

eR

iver

(15)

Ram

parts

Riv

er(1

6)

Tsin

tuR

iver

(17)

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er(1

8)

Loon

Riv

er(1

9)

Tied

aR

iver

(20)

Ont

arat

ueR

iver

(21)

Arct

ic g

rayl

ing

(Thy

mal

lus

arct

icus

)P

PP

PP

PP

P-

P

Arct

ic la

mpr

ey

(Lam

petra

japo

nica

)-

P-

--

--

--

P

broa

d w

hite

fish

(Cor

egon

us n

asus

)-

PP

P-

PP

--

P

burb

ot

(Lot

a lo

ta)

PP

PP

-P

P-

-P

chum

sal

mon

(O

ncho

rhyn

chus

ket

a)-

--

--

--

--

P

dolly

var

den

(Sal

velin

us m

alm

a)-

--

--

--

--

P

emer

ald

shin

er(N

otro

pis

athe

rinoi

des)

--

--

--

--

--

flath

ead

chub

(P

laty

gobi

o gr

acilis

)P

PP

P-

--

--

P

gold

eye

(Hio

don

alos

oide

s)-

--

--

--

--

P

inco

nnu

(Ste

nodu

s le

ucic

hthy

s)P

P-

P-

--

-P

P

lake

chu

b (C

oues

ius

plum

beus

)P

PP

PP

PP

PP

P

lake

cis

co

(Cor

egon

us a

rtedi

i)-

--

--

--

--

P

lake

trou

t (S

alve

linus

nam

aycu

sh)

--

--

--

PP

-P

lake

whi

tefis

h (C

oreg

onus

clu

peaf

orm

is)

PP

-P

PP

PP

-P

leas

t cis

co

(Cor

egon

us s

ardi

nella

)-

--

--

PP

P-

P

long

nose

dac

e (R

hini

chth

ys c

atar

acta

e)-

--

--

PP

--

P

Appe

ndix

1.

Con

tinue

d.

MAC

KEN

ZIE

RIV

ER T

RIB

UTA

RIE

SM

ACKE

NZI

ER

IVER

MAI

NST

EM

(B)

Han

naR

iver

(13)

Don

nelly

Riv

er(1

4)

Hum

eR

iver

(15)

Ram

parts

Riv

er(1

6)

Tsin

tuR

iver

(17)

Har

e In

dian

Riv

er(1

8)

Loon

Riv

er(1

9)

Tied

aR

iver

(20)

Ont

arat

ueR

iver

(21)

long

nose

suc

ker

(Cat

osto

mus

cat

osto

mus

)P

PP

PP

PP

PP

P

mou

ntai

n w

hite

fish

(Pro

sopi

umw

illiam

soni

)-

--

--

--

--

P

nine

spin

e st

ickl

ebac

k (P

ungi

tius

pung

itius

)-

P-

--

-P

P-

P

north

ern

pike

(E

sox

luci

us)

PP

PP

PP

PP

PP

north

ern

redb

elly

dac

e(P

hoxi

nus

eos)

--

--

--

--

-P

pond

sm

elt

(Hyp

omes

us o

lidus

)-

--

--

--

--

P

roun

d w

hite

fish

(Pro

sopi

um c

ylin

drac

eum

)P

PP

--

PP

P-

P

slim

y sc

ulpi

n (C

ottu

s co

gnat

us)

PP

PP

PP

P-

PP

spoo

nhea

d sc

ulpi

n(C

ottu

s ric

ei)

--

-P

-P

--

-P

spot

tail

shin

er

(Not

ropi

s hu

dson

ius)

--

--

-P

--

-P

trout

per

ch

(Per

cops

is o

mis

com

aycu

s)P

PP

P-

P-

-P

P

wal

leye

(S

tizos

tedi

on v

itreu

m v

itreu

m)

PP

-P

PP

--

PP

whi

te s

ucke

r (C

atas

tom

us c

omm

erso

ni)

P-

PP

-P

--

PP

* See

follo

win

g pa

ge fo

r foo

tnot

es a

nd re

fere

nces

.

Appe

ndix

1.

Con

tinue

d.1 "P

" ind

icat

es th

at a

fish

spe

cies

has

bee

n re

porte

d to

occ

ur in

a p

artic

ular

rive

r dra

inag

e or

lake

.

2 Fis

h id

entif

ied

as A

rctic

cha

rr (S

alve

linus

alp

inus

) are

incl

uded

her

e as

Dol

ly V

arde

n (S

alve

linus

mal

ma)

. Th

ere

is c

onfu

sion

in th

e lit

erat

ure

with

resp

ect t

o th

e se

para

tion

of th

ese

spec

ies

and

man

y of

the

iden

tific

atio

nsha

ve b

een

tent

ativ

e. R

ecen

t gen

etic

stu

dies

by

Rei

st e

t al.

(199

6) s

ugge

st th

at, w

ith fe

w e

xcep

tions

, fis

h in

this

dra

inag

e ba

sin

are

Dol

ly V

arde

n.3 In

divi

dual

mal

e Ar

ctic

cha

rr (S

alve

linus

alp

inus

) and

soc

keye

sal

mon

(Onc

horh

ynch

us n

erka

) in

spaw

ning

con

ditio

n w

ere

sent

to D

FO fr

om G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e, b

ut n

o fu

rther

cat

ch d

ata

are

avai

labl

e (J

. Rei

st, p

ers.

com

m.)

4 Dee

pwat

er s

culp

in (M

yoxo

ceph

alus

qua

dric

orni

s th

omps

oni)

have

als

o be

en re

porte

d fro

m G

reat

Bea

r Lak

e (M

cPha

il an

d Li

ndse

y 19

70).

REF

EREN

CES

:

1) R

edst

one

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74;

2) K

eele

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74;

3) B

ig S

mith

Cre

ek:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; S

hotto

n 19

73; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; S

lane

y an

d C

o. L

td. 1

974;

A) G

REA

T B

EAR

LAK

E:M

iller 1

947;

McP

hail

and

Lind

sey

1970

; Sco

tt an

d C

ross

man

197

3; J

ohns

on 1

975c

; Lee

et a

l. 19

80; J

. Rei

st, p

ers.

com

m.;

4) P

orcu

pine

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

nd C

amer

on 1

980

5) S

t. C

harle

s R

iver

:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

198

06)

Bra

cket

t Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

nd C

amer

on 1

980

7) G

reat

Bea

r Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Lom

bard

Nor

th G

rp. L

td. 1

973;

Sho

tten

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Jes

sop

and

Lille

y 19

75; C

hang

-Kue

and

Cam

eron

198

0; M

cCar

t19

82;

8) L

ittle

Bea

r Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

;9)

Ste

war

t Cre

ek:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73; J

esso

p et

al.

1974

; Jes

sop

and

Lille

y 19

75;

10) O

scar

Cre

ek:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Lom

bard

Nor

th G

rp. L

td. 1

973;

Sho

tton

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74;

11) C

arca

jou

Riv

er:

Wyn

ne-E

dwar

ds 1

947;

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Jes

sop

and

Lille

y 19

75;

12) M

ount

ain

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Jes

sop

et a

l. 19

74;

13) H

anna

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; L

omba

rd N

orth

Grp

. Ltd

. 197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74;

14) D

onne

lly R

iver

:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Lom

bard

Nor

th G

rp. L

td. 1

973;

Trip

p an

d M

cCar

t 197

4; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74;

15) H

ume

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Sho

tton

1971

, 197

3; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73; J

esso

p et

al.

1974

;16

) Ram

part

s R

iver

:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

hotto

n 19

71, 1

973;

Ste

in e

t al.

1973

;17

) Tsi

ntu

Riv

er:

Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

hotto

n 19

73;

18) H

are

Indi

an R

.:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; L

omba

rd N

orth

Grp

. Ltd

. 197

3; S

hotto

n 19

73; S

tein

et a

l. 19

73; S

chul

tz In

tern

atio

nal L

td. 1

974;

Jes

sop

and

Lille

y 19

75; L

illey

1975

; Su

ther

land

and

Goh

lke

1978

.19

) Loo

n R

iver

:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Dry

den

et a

l. 19

73; S

hotto

n 19

73; M

cCar

t et a

l. 19

74; S

chul

tz In

tern

atio

nal L

td. 1

974;

Rei

st 1

987;

20) T

ieda

Riv

er:

Hat

field

et a

l. 19

72; D

ryde

n et

al.

1973

; Sho

tton

1973

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; McC

art e

t al.

1974

; Sch

ultz

Inte

rnat

iona

l Ltd

. 197

4; R

eist

198

7;21

) Ont

arat

ue R

iver

:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

;B

) M

ACK

ENZI

E R

IVER

:H

atfie

ld e

t al.

1972

; Ste

in e

t al.

1973

; Cha

ng-K

ue a

nd C

amer

on 1

980;

Env

iroco

n Lt

d. 1

981;

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A Review of the Status and Harvests Of Fish Stocks …A Review of the Status and Harvests Of Fish Stocks in the Sahtu Dene and Metis Settlement Area, Including Great Bear Lake D.B