More than 36,000 Wood Lake kokanee entered Middle Vernon Creek to spawn this fall, pointing to a continued rebound of the kokanee fishery in the lake.

Volunteers from UBC Okanagan joined the Oceola Fish and Wildlife Club to count fish from Sept. 22 to Oct. 22 this fall at the 肠濒耻产香蕉视频直播檚 fish-counting fence on Middle Vernon Creek as it hits Remke Road.

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Kokanee in Wood Lake have been on the rebound since a collapse in 2012, as evidenced by the numbers of spawners counted at the fish fence for the past four years.

In 2014, there were just 9,000 fish counted while that number grew to about 21,000 last year.

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Prior to that, the provincial government used a different method to count fish and only 1999 saw a higher number of spawners recorded in Middle Vernon Creek than this year.

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Coyne did caution that things can change quickly, especially if there is a hot summer as opposed to this past summer that saw regular rainfall keep Middle Vernon Creek from going dry.

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The average size of kokanee spawners this year was 34 centimetres while there were also some large fish counted, including three over 50 centimetres.

About 95 per cent of Wood Lake kokanee spawn in Middle Vernon Creek while a small number spawn in Winfield Creek.

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