CE20161023_07488
Apparently a steelhead, not the coho I expected to find. In 2007, the Nanaimo Fish and Game Protective Association, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the City of Nanaimo, constructed a 800 metre long side - channel in Bowen Park. This channel provides coho salmon, steelhead and sea-run cutthroat trout new spawning and juvenile rearing habitat and access above the Deadman Falls in this park.
These fish now have the opportunity to migrate and spawn in the upper watershed and tributaries in the Brannen Lake area.
To see a video and fish in the bypass, visit the link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siqaWu-nIJ8