Our mission is to work collaboratively with all interested and invested parties to ensure the Hoople Creek / Hoople Bay Fishery remains healthy, well managed and available to all stakeholders for recreational purposes.
Installation of Camera Monitors
A few volunteers were able to install cameras along the shores of the spawning beds to monitor any harvesting by First Nations peoples and to keep a watch for any non-native poachers. These cameras are high end solar powered VOSKER V200 and allow volunteers to receive immediate text messages with photographs should anyone be on the site. The cameras are secured in lock boxes and hopefully will remain safe during the spawning season. Interestingly enough, these monitoring devices have demonstrated many people make use of Hoople Creek for recreational purposes, such as canoeing and kayaking. These photos are of a few taken by our monitoring cameras.
These pictures will be shared with South Stormont managers in the hopes they will see the value of the creek and bay as a means of complementing the overall waterfront plan for the area. The overall Township Waterfront plan does have a reference to a planned Hoople Bay Park and we believe the following link provides a photo of the final version:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Agjzck0Py7BXge8FHBL-UdtJPQoLfA?e=BqRws2
Hoople Creek ‘River Watch’
We really require some assistance from EVERYONE to send us some photos for our Website and Facebook Group. Please consider sharing any photos you might take, or come across, of wildlife, fish, aquatic life, water levels, weed growth, etc, with our Group. In previous years we have heard of eggs rotting in the sun when the water is dropped quickly around this time of year. If anyone has any evidence of this, we would appreciate photos. It is all about constant vigilance and awareness as we all work together to protect this nature reserve! Send them to Hooplecreek@cogeco.ca
First Nations Harvest during spawn of 2022
We tried to monitor the First Nations Harvest closely this year and to discourage them as much as respectfully and legally possible from harvesting the few remaining spawning walleye on the spawning beds. This involved ensuring the Ontario Provincial Police were aware of any illegally parked vehicles along the 401 highway and capturing photographs as harvesters walked over the spawning beds thereby damaging any precious eggs. These photos are simply used to demonstrate how the spawning beds are currently NOT being protected. We will continue to raise the issue with Government leaders and First Nations Chiefs and managers.
Charity Status with Revenue Canada
We are in the process of completing a form T2050 application to seek registration of our ‘not-for-profit’ corporation with Revenue Canada. This will allow us to issue Tax receipts and to establish various types of fund raisers to finance the installation of the underwater fish counting cameras.
John Sliter, Interim President
Friends of Hoople Creek Society
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