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Narrator: Ontario's fisheries resources are an important part of its biodiversity
[An arial view of the Harwood Fish Culture Station building]
Narrator: and contribute to the province's economic, social, and environmental well-being.
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Narrator: Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources,
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Narrator also known as MNR,
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Narrator: uses fish stocking, amongst other tools to support the sustainable management of these fisheries.
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Narrator: MNR's Fish and Wildlife Program stocks
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Narrator: fish for two main purposes
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Narrator: to conserve and restore natural fish populations
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Narrator: and to support, create,
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Narrator: enhance and maintain fishing opportunities.
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Narrator Each year, approximately 8 million fish comprising of 11 different species
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Narrator: are stocked into 1200 public water bodies,
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Narrator: including the Great Lakes and inland lakes.
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Narrator: Ontario's Fish Culture and Stocking Program is operated by
[Footage of the Chatsworth Fish Culture Station]
Narrator: a group of highly dedicated and skilled staff
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Narrator: that include technicians, biologists,
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Narrator: fisheries managers, and scientists.
[Footage of a man flushing fish into a tank using a fish stocking hose]
Narrator: In this video, staff members from
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Narrator: a few of our Fish Culture Stations
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Narrator: will introduce and walk you through
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Ontario's Fish Culture and Stocking Program.
[Bradley Keyes sitting in front of the camera]
Bradley Keyes: My name is Bradley Keyes, and I'm a fish culture technician at
[Footage of the Harwood Fish Culture Station building]
Bradley Keyes: the Harwood Fish Culture Station. The Harwood Fish Culture Station is a facility
[Bradley Keyes sitting in front of the camera]
Bradley Keyes: that produces fish for
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Bradley Keyes: recreational and rehabilitation purposes.
[Amanda Ross sitting in front of the camera]
Amanda Ross: My name is Amanda Ross. I am the operations coordinator at Harwood Fish Culture Station.
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Amanda Ross:Harwood has on hand broodstock and production fish.
[Amanda Ross sitting in front of the camera]
Amanda Ross: So our broodstock are the fish that we
[A sign that says “Egg Receiving / stairs”]
Amanda Ross: collect our eggs from, that we spawn in-house.
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[Justin Chan standing in front of Chatsworth Fish Culture Station]
Justin Chan: My name is Justin Chan, and I'm the acting operations coordinator at Chatsworth Fish Culture Station.
[Footage of Justin Chan walking in a fish culture station]
Justin Chan: The primary purpose of the fish culture section is to conserve biodiversity
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Justin Chan: as well as provide angling opportunities.
[A graphic of Ontario showing the where the fish culture stations are located]
Amanda Ross: Ontario has nine hatcheries across the province that contribute to the stocking program.
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Justin Chan: So Chatsworth station is one of the largest production
[Justin Chan standing in front of Chatsworth Fish Culture Station]
Justin Chan: stations within the section.
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Justin Chan: We typically produce up to 50 metric tons of fish annually.
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Justin Chan: And we also have the brown trout broodstock that provides brown trout eggs for the section[Footage of a fish stocking truck]
Amanda Ross: Harwood itself has a five ton, a one ton,
[Amanda Ross sitting in front of the camera]
Amanda Ross: and then a pickup truck with a tank that can go in the back. From there, they can also
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Amanda Ross: be stocked by helicopter
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Amanda Ross: or by tug, or straight off of
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Amanda Ross: the truck into the lake, depending on access.
Bradley Keyes: We stock a number of fish
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Bradley Keyes: by tug. We will drive our truck
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Bradley Keyes: flush them into the tug
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Bradley Keyes: and the tug will drive out and drop them into a suitable location.
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[Matt Murphy standing in front of the fish stocking truck]
Matt Murphy: My name's Matt Murphy. I'm a fisheries technician. Fishery hatchery technician at the Chatsworth Fish Culture Station.
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Matt Murphy: We call this the water tower. We literally
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Matt Murphy: pump the fish up the tower.
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Matt Murphy: The fish then slide out another pipe into the truck,
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Matt Murphy: the fish now are loaded without using nets.
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Matt Murphy: Nobody's touching them. It's just easier.
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Matt Murphy: Less stress on the fish. The main goal is to rehabilitate
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Matt Murphy: the lakes, the numbers.
[Tim Dale standing on a boat]
Tim Dale: Well, my name is Tim Dale. I'm a Great Lakes fisheries technician with the Ministry of Natural Resources.
[Footage of the fish stock truck]
Tim Dale: We are stocking lake trout out of Chatsworth Fish Hatchery Fish Culture Station.
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Tim Dale: We pull alongside the dock, we're tied up.
[Tim Dale standing on a boat]
Tim Dale: Our tanks will hold
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Tim Dale: 280kg of fish.
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Time Dale: We're stocking lake trout. It's a native species of the Great Lakes, right.
[Tim Dale standing on a boat]
Tim Dale: So what we're really doing is rehabilitating the natural lake trout population. So it's very important for the ecosystem and everything else.
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Bradley Keyes: So one of the ways we stock fish is by helicopter.
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Bradley Keyes: This greatly increases the amount of fish we can stock in a short period of time.
[Andrew Graham walking towards the camera]
Andrew Graham: Hi, I'm Andrew Graham with an integrated resource management technical specialist with the Ministry of Natural Resource and Forestry. And we're currently about to load some fish from our fish truck into our helicopter
[Attaching piping from the fish stocking truck to the yellow helicopter]
Andrew Graham: to get ready to go and stock some lakes.
[Andrew standing in front of a yellow helicopter, pointing towards the fish stocking tank]
Andrew Graham: So inside the helicopter, we have this big tank that has six different compartments inside. Up in the front we have labels, one for each compartment.
[Fish being flushed into a tank]
Andrew Graham: Pull the slip and it'll open up these, trap doors here,
[Two men standing in front of the helicopter’s fish stocking tank]
Andrew Graham: allowing the fish to go out of the bottom of the helicopter.
[Doug Holtby standing in front of the yellow helicopter]
Doug Holtby: My name is Doug Holtby. I've been flying for 48 years, 34 of those years
[Doug Holtby prepping the helicopter]
Doug Holtby: with the Aviation Services.
[Doug Holtby standing in front of the yellow helicopter]
Doug Holtby: The thing with fish stocking is to get the fish to the lakes as quickly as possible.
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Amanda Ross: They then take off
[Amanda Ross sitting in front of the camera]
Amanda Ross: and then fly to each site. They have a planned road that they go through.
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Amanda: From there, they hover down over the lake, and the staff member that gets to go up in the helicopter
[Amanda Ross sitting in front of the camera]
Amanda Ross: has to then release, depending on the site, whether it's one, two, or three cells on the tank.
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Amanda Ross: Then they do a little flyby to make sure all the fish look good,
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Amanda Ross: and then they carry on to the next lake.
[Doug Holtby standing in front of the yellow helicopter]
Doug Holtby: If there happened to be fishermen out on the lake when we're dropping the fish, they always seem glad to see us,
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Doug Holtby: which is, is a good thing and rewarding part of the job.
[Bradley Keyes sitting in front of the camera]
Bradley Keyes: It's very rewarding in the way that you are constantly putting fish back into the environment and you get to see the
[Footage of a man fishing]
Bradley Keyes: happiness of everybody else enjoying the fishing opportunites that we create.
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Narrator: We hope you've enjoyed learning about MNR's
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Narrator: Fish Culture and Stocking program,
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Narrator: and meeting some of our dedicated staff.
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Narrator: To learn more about the Fish Culture and Stocking Program,
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Narrator: please visit ontario.ca/FishCulture
[a screen recording of the Ontario’s fish stocking program’s webpage]
Narrator: To explore our mobile fishing tool and get information about where fish are stocked in Ontario.
[A map of Ontario’s lakes]
Narrator: Please visit ontario.ca/FishOnline.
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