Thursday, October 28, 2010

Going to Farr?

Looks like birds will soon no longer be going to Farr Island to hang out. In a battle that pitted animal rights activists against environmentalists, an attempt to petition the courts to block a plan to sink the island , has failed. The island  is to be submerged to allow for a habitat for fish. According to a Spec report, (see it here) The Hamilton Port Authority wants to turn Farr into an enlarged artificial shoal to create spawning beds for lake herring and whitefish, which have disappeared from the western end of Lake Ontario.


1 comment:

  1. The "island" was made-man - an attempt to provide nesting habitat for a bird species, the Caspian Tern, which was endangered in the Great Lakes area. For years it was monitored by volunteers to keep it clear until the Caspian Terns returned in the spring once there that tern, a very aggressive species, took over the island - why that has not been kept up is unknown to me, but the "island" has been left for cormorants.
    What is needed is more and more habitat for native fish species, that is what is crucial.
    The issue is complicated and involves more than just the island in question - so no easy answers but I tend to accept the recommendations of the Bay Area Restoration Council (BARC).

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