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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-05-18, Page 37Fishing is a popular pastime in the Port Albert area. But Port Albert residents often find fishermen are careless about their habit while "fishing, and on occasion, have been known to destroy private property during their visits. Fishermen do spend maoney at the general store in Port Albert. And they do rent accommodations from time to time. Port Albert foks, do wish that anglers would fish the river and respect private property at the same time. (photo by Dave Sykes) Port Albert fishway ..... • from page 13A trout to get past the Port Albert dam to spawn. He said a hole in the dam was the only route the fish could take to get upstream and conditions had to be ideal for the trout to get through it. He said those conditions were sometimes never right in past spawning seasons. He said water levels and the flow rate had to be just right for the fish to get through the hole in the dam and when those conditions were met they would only last a day or two at the most. The fishway is basically a water diversion skirting....th<e five foot damthat spans the river. The water flows through a concrete spillway and is dumped back into the river below the dam reducing the jump the fish must make from five feet to one foot. Fish heading upstream to spawn instinctively follow the current of the river and that instinct causes them to swim to the bottom end of the fish - way. They jump over the barricade, swim' up -the concrete spillway and are trapped in a wire cage about five feet long and three feet wide. -Each hour Walroth and ministry employee Lloyd Tigert use a chain hoist to raise the cage. The trout are netted.out.of the cage and put in bathtub like containers awaiting processing. Tigert scoops the fish out of the tubs by hand, places them �n a measuring table and Walroth records the fishes' weight, length, sex 'and spawning condition and a tag is sewn on its back. Tigert then puts the fish in a foot wide tub that carried the fish back to the river above the dam. Walroth said the size and condition of the fish trapped in the fishway indicates life is good for a rainbow trout in Lake Huron. Some of the fish have large scars from lamprey attacks but those scars indicate the fish are capable of surviving such attacks more readily than lake trout, a species devastated by lamprey. Walroth said the average weight of trout passing through the fishway has been about five pounds and the average length 25 inches. 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