Cowichan River Temperature Rises to Levels Usually Seen in August
SHARE ON: Volunteers from the Cowichan Lake & River Stewardship Society transfer salmon fry from drying pools to the river s main channel. Photograph courtesy of CLRSS.
The hot weather has the water temperature in the Cowichan River now at a level that is not normally experienced until late summer.
On Monday, the temperature of the river in Duncan reached 23.6 degrees Celsius, and as of at 4 pm Tuesday afternoon it had edged above 24 degrees.
The water temperatures were recorded by an Environment Canada monitoring station in Duncan.
Wilf Luedke, Area Chief of the South Coast Stock Assessment Division of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, says high temperatures can be harmful to juvenile salmon in the river.