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The Federal government of Canada revealed that the totality of Kootenay National forest is closed to boat and all fishing, reliable till March 31, 2025. The closure is to safeguard the waterbodies within Kootenay National forest from whirling illness, a parasite that affects fish and is difficult to eliminate as soon as developed in a water supply.
The release from Canadian federal government does not define if there’s been a whirling illness scare close by, however we can presume that’s most likely. It appears that, besides warming water temperature levels and continued dewatering of rivers and streams, the most significant risk to the majority of trout fisheries is water intrusive types of some sort. We just recently saw this play out on the Snake River in Idaho, when authorities there found quagga mussels in the river. A whole area of the Snake near Twin Falls was dealt with to get rid of the mussels, eliminating all other fish because area of river, also.
