VICTORIA – High water temperatures and low flows have led to fishing closures in British Columbia’s south Kootenays.
The province says all angling has been suspended for a month across the area south of Nelson, from below Lower Arrow Lake in the west to the Kootenay River east of Cranbrook.
The closures start Saturday and are in effect until Sept. 15 to protect fish stocks from the ongoing dry conditions.
In addition, six creeks, including Michel Creek, Lizard Creek and Morrissey Creek and their tributaries will not be open to fishing in the east Kootenay.
The Columbia River from the Hugh Keenleyside Dam to the Washington state border, and the Kootenay River from Brilliant Dam to the confluence of the Columbia are exempt from the closures.
The B.C. government says its fisheries’ biologists are monitoring about 30 other key streams across the province and that fishing suspensions elsewhere are possible.
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