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economist suntribune outdoors saturday april 14 2001 13 rainbow trout make annual spawning run up the rouge mike hayakawa with the mer cury showing upward movement on the thermome ter and the sun melting what rem nants of snow that remain it appears spring is here if you dont believe it just go to the milne dam site in markham there youll see one of the rites of spring as rainbow trout migrating from their summer home in lake ontario are swim ming their way up the rouge river to reach suitable spawning grounds despite springs rather late arrival mark heaton a fisheries biologist with the ministry of natural resources aurora district office feels this years annual run is on schedule and should peak soon conducting a oneday electrofishing course with a group of students from niagara college last week at the milne dam heaton noted plenty of rainbows had congregated at the site this is as far as they can travel upstream without some form of assistance to get them above the concrete structure during the session heaton said they assisted 40 rainbow trout among trie fish captured was one male rainbow weighing close to 17 pounds in addition heaton said they transferred two northern pike one black crappie and some yellow perch transfer work continued last sunday with volunteers from the metro east anglers assisting around a dozen fish and col lecting eggs and milt from around 20 mature rainbows for rearing at their parkview golf club hatchery on tuesday the ministry worked with 12 youngsters between 17 to 20 years of age who were from the second chance program and transferred 44 rainbow trout based on his observations heaton said plenty offish were still a ways yet from spawning but he noted a few were seen spawning below the milne dam before the run concludes heaton hopes they can transfer anywhere from 100 to 120 fish with the runoff produced from the downpours late in the week heaton expects more fish will work their way to die dam in turn he intends to be back on the river next tuesday to carry out further transfer work as for the success in the annual transfer program which is now in its sixth year heaton felt there appears to be more fish entering the rouge river each year id say were seeing more now than what we used to those wishing to see the fish work their way upstream can also do so at the toogood pond fishway site in unionville heaton suggests the best time to see these fish is late in the remains on lake simcoe and because of this the annual wall- afternoon when water temperatures are at their warmest and eye spawning run on the talbot river has been delayed by at fish are most active least a week due to cold water temperatures pam fulford a fisheries biologist from the ministrys aurora lake simcoe walleye transferdelayed district office anticipates the run could begin next week she said the ministry hopes to begin their annual walleye transfer while the weather might be warming up plenty of ice still and egg collection work on the 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