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Ingredients: In 1990, Don Wolverton, who has worked with fish propogation all his life, discovered that the Muniac Stream in Lower Kintore had the perfect flow, water quality and lack of any industrial waste for a fish hatchery. Don tells the story.
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Directions:I bought the two acres I needed from Kincardine resident, Mark Lanto, who owned the land bordering the Muniac Stream in Lower Kintore. I was interested in starting a fish hatchery because my brother had a hatchery that was going well. I had a vision of how the layout should be so I had an engineer friend, Ray Sullivan of Woodstock, who had a fish pond, draw me up a set of workable plans for this Lower Kintore operation.
It took one and a half years to build the facility and I was licensed to raise 200,000 small fish per year. The license allowed me to raise Arctic Char, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout and Rainbow Trout. However the Arctic Char did not pan out because our weather was too warm. We had great success with all the other types of fish. One of the best things about the Lower Kintore Fish hatchery was that the stream flowed into our property completely by gravity. We needed no pumps.
We had great success with this Lower Kintore Fish Hatchery which we operated for 10 years. We really enjoyed the folks coming with their families and catching fish for a meal.
After 10 years had passed, the Florenceville Fish Hatchery, which had been a government operation since 1927, came up for sale. We bought it because it was a much larger operation. I really intended to operate both facilities but spreading myself too thin did not work out. So the Lower Kintore operation was temporarily closed. The intention is to get it running again, if possible. A government contract to raise fish would help.
In Maine, the sports fishing industry introduces $350 million dollars per
year into the economy. At one time there were five Federal fish Hatcheries in New Brunswick. I really feel we should be raising more fish and stocking more streams in New Brunswick. Our province has fallen short in this business. A well organized sports fishery program here in this province could generate $300 million and provide up to 5000 jobs.
And here's a little story aside from the Lower Kintore Fish Hatchery. In 1901 my father recorded that he fished in the Muniac Stream near the dam at the sawmill which used to operate in the Muniac pond (now right by Route 105). He caught "the biggest brook trout he had ever seen!". |
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