A disturbing discovery in a Courtenay marsh has locals worried after an invasive species known as Pumpkin Seed fish turned up in random salmon monitoring nets there.
Graham Hilliar tossed a minnow trap into Courtenay’s Wildwood Marsh Saturday, concerned about what it may catch.
“Yeah quite surprised to see them in there and they could compete for food sources for the salmon and they can survive with less oxygen,” said Hilliar, a volunteer with the Tsolum River Restoration Society. “And that got me curious so I set traps further up the Smit Creek and up into Wildwood Marsh where I captured about 86 in one trap,” said Hilliar.is now trying to find out how big the problem has grown. Saturday’s check in by Hilliar turned up the biggest fish yet, nearly the size of his hand, found dead in the reeds.
Kris Oetter lives near Wildwood Marsh and is worried about the impact the fish could have on the coast’s struggling salmon.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.“The native species are under pressure from so many different things, it’s just another one of them,” said Kris Oetter.
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