- Environmental Challenges
- Where We Are At
- Restrictions On Fish And Wildlife Consumption
- Degradation Of Fish And Wildlife Populations
- Fish Tumours And Other Deformities
- Degradation Of Benthos
- Restrictions On Dredging Activities
- Eutrophication And Undesirable Algae
- Restrictions On Drinking Water Or Taste And Odour Problems
- Beach Closures
- Degradation Of Aesthetics
- Degradation Of Phytoplankton And Zooplankton Populations
- Loss Of Fish And Wildlife Habitat
BUI #1 - Restrictions on fish and wildlife consumption
Although fish consumption is currently impaired. Fish in the Bay of Quinte are healthy, abundant, and safe to eat. Wildlife consumption was never identified as impaired.
Specific consumption levels can be found in the Guide to Eating Ontario Fish published by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.
Today, the Bay of Quinte supports a world-class walleye and bass fishery providing this region with numerous economic benefits.
Each BUI has specific criteria that must be met before its status can be changed to unimpaired.
Target – The BUI is to be redesignated when it can be demonstrated that consumption advisories for fishes of interest in the Bay of Quinte are non-restrictive, declining or comparable to the advisories for suitable Lake Ontario reference site(s) due to contaminants (PCBs, dioxin-like PCBs, TCDDs (dioxins) and TCDFs (furans)) from locally-controllable sources specific to the AOC.
Measure 1. Fish consumption advisories for fishes of interest in the Bay of Quinte are non-restrictive, declining or are comparable to suitable reference area(s); and
Measure 2. Fish consumption advisories for Brown Bullhead and Yellow Perch (or similar sentinel species) collected in the areas of the Trenton Nearshore Area and the Belleville Nearshore Area, near legacy sources of contamination, are non-restrictive, declining or comparable to advisories for these fish in the rest of the Bay of Quinte.
Tracking Walleye with Acoustic Transmitters
The Queen’s University Freshwater Fisheries Conservation Lab has been working with the Lake Ontario Management Unit (MNRF) to tag Walleye with acoustic transmitter to track their movement in the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario. Click on the image below to see the 2018 movement of walleye.
Image from the Tufts Lab Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/fisheriesqu