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Narhay

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What is this minnow?
« on: October 25, 2016, 08:15:30 PM »


I was reasonably set on redside shiner but an old colleague thinks it might be a pikeminnow. Found in a tributary to the lower Fraser.
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Re: What is this minnow?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2016, 08:17:34 PM »
Redside shiner.
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Narhay

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Re: What is this minnow?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2016, 08:19:52 PM »
That was fast and an answer from Rod himself. Thank you. What makes you think redside (other than the red lateral line).
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Re: What is this minnow?
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2016, 10:01:19 PM »
I have seen them spawning in the South Allouette river and it was a horror show.
1000,s of them in a frenzy turning the water a milky colour.
I wanted to go home and get my gas can and light the river on fire. :o
OK not really but it was UGLY.
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Re: What is this minnow?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2016, 07:41:42 AM »
are redside shiner's native to FV streams? I know bait fishers introduced them to many interior lakes and had it negative impact on trout fisheries.
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Re: What is this minnow?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2016, 07:49:23 PM »
Quote from: RalphH on October 26, 2016, 07:41:42 AM
are redside shiner's native to FV streams? I know bait fishers introduced them to many interior lakes and had it negative impact on trout fisheries.
Here's a link; worked with one of the authors

http://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/acat/documents/r10789/8840209-App.A-Speciessummary-RedsideShiner_1188325218740_f6d9ed881f674be38a50ea8d31322657.pdf
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