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100 Taylor Road
Grand Falls-Windsor, NL
A2A 2P7
In the spring of 2015 unusually high water and heavy ice on the Exploits River caused a breach in both ends of Goodyear’s Dam rendering its fishways inoperable. As a result, salmon could not utilize the fishways to migrate and access habitat beyond the dam.
The Duck Pond Mine Fish Habitat Compensation Program came about in 2005 through loss of productive fish habitat within the Harpoon Brook watershed in central Newfoundland by the approval of a copper-zinc mining project operated by Teck Resources Limited.
In the mid 1900’s sections of the Exploits River watershed were channelized and dammed to facilitate log driving for the pulp and paper industry. The practice of channelization stopped in 1953, but many of the dams and water control structures remained.
From 2012 to 2018 ERMA supplied eggs from Exploits River salmon to reintroduce salmon to the Rennie’s and Virginia River systems in St. John’s. Eggs were shipped to St. John’s, where they were fertilized and transplanted in instream incubators within the Rennie’s River and Virginia River systems.
ERMA team members conducted a creel census on the main stem of the Exploit’s River during the 2020 summer Atlantic salmon angling season.
Located on the Banks of the Exploits River, one of the top producing Atlantic Salmon Rivers in North America and conveniently just minutes from downtown amenities in Grand Falls-Windsor. Sanger Memorial RV Park features 47 sites that make up a combination of pull-through sites, extra-large lots with views of the Exploits River, 39 sites at 30amps & 8 sites at 50amps.
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