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Protecting our human environment and heritage
Hunting, Fishing and Trapping
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The follow-up program will continue for up to 15 years after diversion of the Rupert River. The mitigation measures introduced with land users will be monitored to see how they have adapted their hunting, fishing and trapping activities to the new environmental conditions.
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In cooperation with the Crees, measures will be introduced to enable trapline users affected by the project to pursue their harvesting activities.
- Relocation of Cree camps
- Access development (ATV and snowmobile trails, boat ramps, portages)
- Installation of signs to indicate campsites and snowmobile trails
- Development of 10 hectares of wetlands and ponds that will provide rest areas for waterfowl and good hunting sites
- Embankment of a bay downstream of Rupert dam to preserve the existing environment, which provides good habitat for waterfowl
- Restoration of the lake cisco dip-net fishing site at Smokey Hill
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The project will affect about 12% of the Crees' traplines (36 out of 286). Cree users will have to reorganize their hunting, fishing and trapping operations.
Some camps are located within the future diversion bays or in areas slated for construction.
The project will change the configuration of some water bodies, the road network and snowmobile trails. Users will have to change some boat or snowmobile routes to harvest their traplines or reach their camps.
The loss of certain hunting sites when the diversion bays are flooded and the reduced flow in the Rupert River will disrupt Cree goose hunting.
Reduced flow in the Rupert River will also change fishing conditions at Smokey Hill.
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Schedule for implementation of mitigation measuresme
Camp relocation, road construction, hunting and fishing measures:
2007 to 2011.
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