It’s a lake that has taken a lot of hits over the years: power plants using lake water to cool their generators; cottages, agriculture and industry leaking wastes into the water; whitefish and pike fisheries near collapse; and of course, the CN train derailment in 2005 that dumped several thousand liters of diesel oil into the lake. In my Alberta Outdoorsmen column for March, I discuss how the lake is recovering from the oil spill and why Alberta Sustainable Resource Development is restricting fishing to catch-and-release only.
So, what’s wrong with that?
Tags: Alberta, Canada, northern pike, Lake Wabamun, Wabamun Lake, whitefish, Wabamun, fisheries, oil spill
