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To mitigate the jetty’s impacts on fish and fish habitat, the Nouvel Horizon Saint-Laurent (NHSL) Corporation is building two passes that will be in place for next spring’s migration and fish spawning period.
When designing the passes, NHSL considered many parameters to reproduce the ideal fish migration conditions:
The passes will be created directly in the natural substratum found across the Île des Sœurs jetty.
Once these corridors are in place, instruments will be set up to:
Over 40 species of fish live in the Greater La Prairie Basin (where the river widens between the Lachine Rapids and the Victoria Bridge):
All of these fish tend to inhabit the river where the work is located.
To learn more, please watch the video above on the Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola compensation project.
Visit the Environment section of the Champlain Bridge deconstruction project to know more about this!