Inventory lists were published in club newsletters
1951 list of publications by members
First known record of Brown trout (Salmo trutta fario), sea lamprey report retrieved in 1951
Local fish collectors Dr. A. E. Allin (primary collector), J. Thompson, E. Heslop
Handwritten review and revision comments by Momot.
Revised Great Lakes water quality agreement of 1978 retrieved 18 Nov 2004 from www.ijc.org/rel/agree/quality.html, 51 pages.
“indicators to evaluate progress under the great lakes water quality agreement April 1996 ISBN 1-895085-85-3 pages 1-11 only of 94 pages
This collection contains the draft reviews of the Great Lakes Remedial Action Plan Publications and COA Agreement between the international Joint Commission and Lakehead University.
Comments by W. T. Momot were handwritten throughout the document. Missing water quality parameter monitoring, Herring gull thought to be a poor choice of monitoring species for wildlife. This is a photocopy where sticky notes impair the visibility of the original text on page 18. Handwritten comments by unknown author on page 5, 44 are unreadable
Fish inventory studies were conducted by Walter Momot, Sam Stephenson, and the students of biology class 4221, to examine trends in abundance and population variables for key indicator fish species. Sam Stephenson was a University of Manitoba Ph.D. student working with Momot as a teaching assistant. Connie Hartviksen, LU biology research and teaching assistant, performed taxonomic verifications and notations.
Connie Hartviksen noted on February 14, 1992, the status of their inventory since 1988 had collected specimens from 120 creeks and rivers, approximately 155 lakes in Northwestern Ontario.
The LU data collection including biology 4221 class represents 150 streams, 4x 150 for river data and 640 lakes concentrated in the Great Lakes-St Lawrence Primary watershed division, 2nd and 5th secondary watershed divisions in Ontario, within those two divisions 10 tertiary watershed divisions 2AD (units; 22, 19,1,4,5,6,24,23,7,10,9,11,13), 2AE (2), 4GA(16), 5QA(units; 8,4), 5PB(units; 1, 25,5,24,22,23) 5PA(3,5,7,8), 2AA(units; 1,2,3,4), 4GB(units 5,4,3,11), 2AB (all units,5 Lake Superior tributaries, 2AC (all units except 4 and 5, 21 Lake Superior tributaries)
This collection includes correspondence between Dr. Crossman and Dr. Momot regarding the verification of rare fish species. These fish have either been introduced or adapting to an environmental stressor such as climate change. Positive identification is an important step to mapping and documenting changes to their distribution overtime.
Reprinted February 1996 with Implementation Annex, Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan Team, and Nipigon Bay Public Advisory Committee
Editorial & professional review comments are written on this 1996 reprint by Walter Momot. Includes a one-page summary (loose lined paper) inserted between pages 43-44
Review comments are handwritten on the main part of this document by Momot.
Handwritten review and revision comments by Momot
Gashinski, Jenn, 2002. “The Upper Kaministiquia River and the Matawin River fish Inventory Program-Fall 2002, October 2002, Thunder Bay District, OMNR
Kaministiquia Water Management Plan 2002, terms of reference signed by OMNR, OPG, DFO
OMNR-Ontario Power Generation Water Management Planning for the Kaministiquia River Watershed general information handout
OMNR-Ontario Power Generation Kaministiquia River Water Management Plan Comment Sheet
Lake Sturgeon: the Kaministiquia River’s Prehistoric Dweller
Kraemer, Richard A. 1988. “Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Monitoring Kaministiquia River, April-August 1987” Draft copy, Northwestern region, Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE)
Lake Superior Management Unit Information Package, “Kaministiquia River Salmon Study 1992”, OMNR.
Lake Superior Fisheries Unit, “Telemetry study of fish movement in the lower Kaministiquia River, Quik Report 88-10, December 1988
Beak Consultants Ltd, June 1987, “Survey of the Benthos of the lower Kaministiquia river, 1985, report to Northwestern Region, Water Resources Branch, OMOE
Summary tables for species caught: Catostomus commersoni (White Sucker), Catostomus catostomus (Longnose Sucker), Cyprinus carpio (common carp), Ambloplites rupestris (Rock Bass), Perca flavescens (Yellow Perch), Stizostedion vitreum (Yellow Pickeral aka Walleye) Micropterus dolomieui (Smallmouth Bass), Acipenser fulvescens (Lake Sturgeon), Esox Lucius (Northern Pike); Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Shorthead Redhorse sucker), Moxostoma anisurum (Silver Redhorse sucker), Pomoxis nigromaculatus (Black Crappie), Etheostoma nigrum (Johnny darter).
Gill net sampling with images of Walter Momot, Alan Dextrase, Rod Sein, and Bea Roddy. Sam Stephenson was part of the crew but may have been the photographer or absent that day.
The Kaministiquia River designated as a high focused area to study due to the important link it has to water quality and fisheries. Kaministiquia River has had many spelling variants, including Kaministikwia. Kaministiquia, Ojibway name, means the meeting of rivers or a meandering river with three mouths (Kivi 1987) and was declared by Geography Board of Canada as the official spelling in 1982. The Kaministiquia or the “Kam” as it is known here locally orginates in the North at Dog Lake and, after a meandering course of 60 miles (95 km), it drains into Thunder Bay, of northwestern Lake Superior. It has many rapids and falls, notably the pictureseque Kakabeka Falls (154 feet [47 m] high), site of a major hydroelectric station. A private salmon fish hatchery was established 1986 upstream of Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd Pulp and Paper Mill at the base of the Ontario Power Generation Station outlet in Kakabeka Falls. The river divides into three channels as it enters Thunder Bay, providing deepwater shipping docks at the city of Thunder Bay.” In 1986, the Kaministiquia River received the highest discharge of industrial waste in the city of Thunder Bay. There is historical evidence of thousands of fish dying through the summer months due to oxygen depletion in the 48 kilometre stretch of the lower levels of the river.
Dr. Walter T. Momot of Lakehead University’s biology department accepted the task of investigating the Kaministiquia River Water quality barrier. The study focused on biophysical impacts on the aquatic species above and below the Great Lakes Pulp & Paper Mill of the Kaministiquia River. The preliminary investigations of the International Joint Fisheries Commission identified both physical and chemical impacts along the river. The physical components included the destruction of wetland areas or changes in the substrate composition, both of which were used formerly for spawning and nursery habitat by various aquatic species. Another important physical impact was water temperature fluctuations from effluent discharge and shipping ballast water at the Kaministiquia River delta. The Mission and McKellar rivers meet the Kaministiquia at this river delta. Chemical aspects of the study included the impacts of pollutants from both municipal and industrial sources and chemical lampricide use.
In addition to the biophysical impact study, the IJFC requested that the Ontario government look at impacts of over-exploitation, past and current commercial (lake whitefish and lake trout) and recreation fishery demands (walleye) and impacts of competition by invasive aquatic species. At this point of time, fifteen of the fifty-five species of fish in the Thunder Bay Area of Concern (AOC) were non-native species. This AOC had great potential for new exotic or invasive species. The first objective for this study was to obtain baseline knowledge of the fish community of the river. Stage 2 of the remedial process would assess the response of the fish community to rehabilitation efforts based on the pollution abatement measures of the Remedial Action Plan (RAP) applied to the lower reaches of the Kaministiquia River.
Dr. W. T. Momot worked cooperatively with Lake Superior Fisheries Management Unit (LSMU) of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) and Ontario Ministry of the Environment (OMOE).
The results of this study can be found in the final report named “Fish Community and Aquatic Habitat of the Kaministiquia River.” The study documents the collection of 11, 663 fish that represented a total of 40 of the 44 species known to occur in the Kaministiquia River study area. The study area was divided into distinct reaches of the river name after a geographic landmark. These were named old fort reach (deep and long meandering section with a 3km oxbow, 141.5 ha), great lakes reach (7 km, 126.6 ha), mouth reach (2 km, 36.4 ha), Stanley reach (6 km, 76 ha), Rossyln reach (6km, 55.6 ha), Breukelman Reach (5km, 79.5 ha), Harstone reach (6km, 69.8 ha)and the Kakabeka reach (4km, 45 ha).
Note to Louise Wuorinen (Collections Development Librarian) a listing of journal articles and books in Walter Momot’s office library (LU biology department).
Walter Momot’s summary comments are included on note paper inserted in front of the Acknowledgements. comments on page 10
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