Part 3, 2009 Retrospective

Part 3

Parti 3



Sonie after her rotation on the Petit Saguenay River  Mentorship program 2009

Sonie entrain de terminer sa rotation Petit Saguenay Mentorat 2009


Me trying my luck on the Petit Saguenay River Mentorship program 2009

Moi entrain de tanter ma chance Rivière Petit Saguenay Mentorat 2009



The Charismatic Faruk Ekich demonstrating his vise and bobin Mentorship program 2009

La charismatique Faruk Ekich entrain de faire des demonstration de son étaux et porte bobine Mentorat 2009


David "Bish" Bishop doing a spey demo A Mars River Mentorship program 2009

David "BISH" Bishop entrain de faire une démonstration des canne a deux main Rivière a Mars Mentorat 2009


ME and Ghislain Hudon on the Sainte Marguerite River Mentorship program 2009

Moi et Ghislain Hudon sur la Sainte Marguerite Mentorat 2009




Jocelin et Sonie

Part 2, 2009 Retrospective

Part 2

Parti 2

Julien Favard with his first trophy lake trout on the fly Aux Outardes River June 2009

Julien Favard avec une belle grise rivière Aux Outardes Juin 2009

The canoe run upriver June 2009 Aux Outardes River

La remonter de la rivière Aux Outardes 2009

Julien with another lake trout Jume 2009 Aux Outardes River

Julien avec une grise Juin 2009 Rivière Aux Outardes

Myself with a good lake trout June 2009 Aux Outardes River

Moi avec une grise Juin 2009 Rivière Aux Outardes

Linda York with her trophy pike July 2009 Aux Outardes River

Linda York avec sont beau brochet baie Jackpot Rivière Aux Outardes Juillet 2009

Ed Schblich admiring the vue from the sandy point of Jacpot Bay Aux Outardes River July 2009

Ed Schblich entrain d'admirer la vue via la pointe de la Baie Jackpot rivière Aux Outardes Juillet 2009

Catalina and Julio (from Colombia) getting ready for lake whitefish below Gorge pool Aux Outardes River July 2009

Catalina et Julio (de la Colombie) entrain de se préparer pour le grand corégone au bas de la gorge Rivière Aux Outardes Juillet 2009

Julio with his nice lake whitefish July 2009 Aux Outardes River

Julio avec son beau corégone Juillet 2009 rivière Aux Outardes

My oldest son Ely James with his first lake whitefish of 2009 Aux Outardes River

Mon plus vieux Ely James avec son premier corégone Juillet 2009 Rivière Aux Outardes

Myself and Catalina with her first pike on the Aux Outardes River July 2009

Moi et Catalina avec son premier brochet a vie Rivière Aux Outardes Juillet 2009

Guide sleeping quarters during the Aux Outardes River trips June 2009

Le coin du Guide pendant les voyages sur la Rivière Au Outardes Juin 2009

A good trophy pike on the Aux Outardes River August 2009

Brochet sur la Rivière Aux Outardes Aout 2009

Mario with his first pike on the Aux Outardes River August 2009

Mario avec son premier brochet a vie Rivière Aux Outardes Aout 2009

Dana with his nice pike on the Aux Outardes River September 2009

Dana avec son brochet sur la Rivière Aux Outardes Septembre 2009

Jocelin et Sonie

Part 1 2009 Retrospective

Each photo depicts my 2009 season, you will see happy passionate anglers and above all good friends.


J'ai choisie de vous partager les meilleurs moment et voyage de 2009, dans chacun des photo j'y vois des gens heureux, des véritable passionnés et avant tout de très bon ami.


Part 1

Parti 1

My youngest son Jérome with his first May 2009 sea run brook trout (Riverain River)


Mon plus jeune (Jérome) avec sa première truite de mer de dévalaison mai 2009 (riv. Riverain)







Sonie with her first sea run brook trout May 2009 (Riverain River)


Ma douce Sonie (La Buse) sa première truite de mer de dévalaison mai 2009 (riv.Riverain)







Julien Favard with my father in law Jean Yves Poulin on the Aux Rocher River June 2009

Julien Favard et mon beau père Jean Yves Poulin (Guide) sur la rivière Aux Rocher Juin 2009







Julien Poulin (Local Guide an my wife uncle) with his first salmon of 2009 Aux Rocher River June 2009

Julien Poulin (guide) avec son premier saumon de 2009 sur la rivière Aux Rocher Juin 2009







Me and Christian Kirouac discussing watershed protection on the Aux Rocher River June 2009

Moi et Christian Kirouac entrain de discuter de protection de rivière sur la rivière Aux Rocher Juin 2009








Me hooked up to a fine salmon Aux Rocher River June 2009

Moi sur la rivière Aux Rocher pris avec une saumon Juin 2009







Me with Mr Fagunds first Atlantic Salmon Trinité River July 2009

Moi avec le saumon de Mr Fagunds sur la Riviere Trinité Juillet 2009







Jacques Mondoux on the Trinité river July 2009

Jacques Mondoux sur la rivière Trinité 2009









Michel on the Trinité River with one of 3 salmon caught that day July 2009

Michel sur la rivière Trinité avec un de trois saumon pris dans une heure Juillet 2009







Bob Chambers on the Trinité River 2009

Bob Chambers rivière Trinité 2009

Jocelin et Sonie

Salmon released into Petitcodiac watershed in hopes they swim away after causeway gates opened

BY ALAN COCHRANE 


TIMES & TRANSCRIPT STAFF

Supply and Services Minister Ed Doherty scrambled down the banks of the Little River near Salisbury yesterday to release a bucket full of six-month-old Atlantic salmon into the chilly, fast-flowing water.

GREG AGNEW/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT

Premier Shawn Graham and Chief Joey Knockwood of the Fort Folly First Nation chat at a news conference yesterday.

It was a symbolic gesture made in the hope that when the time comes for them to swim down river to the ocean, their path will not be blocked by the gates of the Petitcodiac River causeway.


More than 67,000 young salmon have been dropped into the Petitcodiac River watershed this year, and yesterday morning's ceremonial dumping followed a news conference held in Moncton where Premier Shawn Graham announced that work on restoring the river is well under way and everything is on target for next year's opening of the gates.

"The countdown is certainly on," Graham said yesterday. "Restoring the river will definitely take time but the Petitcodiac will be back to its former glory."

The specific date hasn't been set, but the gates of the causeway are expected to be opened sometime next spring, ending a 40-year choke-hold. Scientists and engineers say that once the gates are opened, the powerful flow of the Bay of Fundy tides will gradually sweep away the tons of silt that have accumulated in the river over the years and allow it to get wider and deeper.

Opening the gates will result in the river being about 60 metres wide, but removing a large portion of the causeway later will increase that opening to about 225 metres.

The provincial government has already committed over $20 million to the river restoration project and the result of that spending is evident along the banks where new dikes have been constructed to reinforce the shoreline and protect agricultural land from the river when it begins to rise.

Scientists and engineers will continue to study the river after the gates are opened and see what changes occur.

"This destruction was caused by the hand of man but this is an opportunity for nature to begin to repair itself," Graham said.

But "restoration is not an overnight thing," said Petitcodiac Riverkeeper Tim Van Hinte "It's not going to take one day or two days or weeks. It's going to take years for the river to restore the way that they are predicting it to, which is about 80 per cent over several years. To believe in this project you have to take a long-term view. This is the end of the beginning because restoration is a process that's going to take a lot of work."

But even though consultants say the river will be restored to its former glory, it could take a very long time before the tides sweep out a navigable channel that can be used by boaters at low tide.

"There's no forseeable recreation use for the river," said Jacques Paynter, communications manager for the project.

In the part of the river that passes through Metro Moncton, the river looks full and flowing at high tide but is reduced to barely a trickle at low tide. Paynter said the flow of the tides will eventually sweep away the silt to create a wider and deeper channel but it is doubtful whether that channel could ever support boats at low tide.

In a couple of years, most of the causeway will be torn out and replaced by a real bridge. Graham said design work for the bridge is already under way and construction should begin in 2013, even though the federal government has not committed to funding that part of the project. Graham said he would continue to press the federal government to get involved in the project.

"The restoration of tidal flows and fish passage along the Petitcodiac River is an important first step in repairing 40 years of environmental damage caused by the causeway," Graham said. "Restoring the tidal flow is also critical to rehabilitating the 3,000-square-kilometre Petitcodiac River watershed, which is a significant ecological asset for the Westmorland-Albert region and all New Brunswickers."

Graham was joined at yesterday's news conference at the Moncton Press Club by Joey Knockwood of the Fort Folly First Nation and Gary Griffin, both long-time advocates of river restoration.

"The construction of the Petitcodiac Causeway did not simply block the river," Graham said. "It devastated the river's ecosystem, eliminated commercial fisheries and changed a way of life for residents of Fort Folly First Nation who had used the river for fishing, travel and trade."

Residents of Metro Moncton have noticed heavy equipment building new banks along the river this summer and the next phase should begin soon. The contract for a new main water pipe running from the Turtle Creek reservoir under the river to Moncton has been awarded and work on that project should begin soon. The contract is worth $6.3 million and has been awarded to Michels Canada.

Boyd Touchie, senior consultant and engineer, said the current water line is buried under the river near the causeway, but it must be moved because it is anticipated that the heavier flow of the river could damage it. Touchie said drill rigs will be set up on the Riverview side and on the causeway. Together, they will drill a horizontal hole 550 metres long and then pull the pipe through it. This pipe will become the main water supply route for Moncton and Dieppe.

After yesterday's news conference, Doherty joined several consultants and media on a bus tour along the river route to Salisbury where the salmon were released into the river.

The tour stopped at areas where new dikes have been constructed to protect agricultural land from the expected rising water after the gates are opened. The new reinforced dikes along the river were made with silt, sand and gravel from the river itself and, in some places, were built on top of dikes that were originally constructed hundreds of years ago.

John Bagnall, a biologist with AMEC consultants in Fredericton, explained that the salmon usually swim upstream in the fall to spawn. The eggs usually hatch in the spring and the salmon will stay in the upper portions of the river for two seasons before they make their way downstream to the ocean. They will spend their winter at sea and then make their way back to their home river to spawn.

The salmon have been doing this for thousands of years but their progress has been blocked by the causeway for the last 40 years. New Brunswick fish hatcheries have preserved the genetic line of Bay of Fundy salmon who are "programmed" to return to their home river in the hope of restoring their line to the Petitcodiac.

"Opening the causeway gates will allow these fish to get out," Bagnall said, noting that most salmon are lost to predators in the area of the headpond near the causeway.

In recent years there has been an increase in birds like osprey, cormorants and even bald eagles around the Petitcodiac.

visit the Times & Transcript http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/search/article/829774


Jocelin

Part 3 and final part of a photographic collage taken during filming of the Deep in Backing Hunting the Touladi video hope you enjoy.

La partie finale des photographies prises lors du tournage de Deep in Backing la traque du Touladi

 

Voici les dernières photographies prises lors du tournage de Deep in Backing la traque du Touladi. En espérant que vous appréciez.

Julien reaching for his first laker of the day (and yes the sun is finnaly out)

Le soleil est finalement sorti des nuages !

Julien planning his 2010 trip

Julien qui rêve à sa prochaine aventure sur la rivière Aux Outardes.

Jack posing for the camera on the cool summer snow

Jack qui joue dans la neige fraîche de juin

Julien holding his first laker of the day
Julien qui nous montre sa dernière grise du voyage

Our ride for the trip Jocelin's hand made 22 foot canoe

Notre taxi lors du voyage, un canoë de 22 pieds.

Choices choices Julien trying to find to right one (Smiley is the fish spotter)

Les nombreux choix de mouches, Julien essaye de trouver le bon patron (remarquez Smiley à la recherche des poissons)

Just another canoe run picture worth showing

Le dernier voyage de la jounée

A great sunset (last night)

Le dernier couché du soleil

Our expedition tent warmt and comfort

Le confort et la chaleur de notre tente étaient grandement appréciés

Jocelin & Julien