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Northern Range Expansion and Invasion by the Common Carp, Cyprinus Carpio, of the Churchill River System in Manitoba 14_05022_carp.qxd 6/5/07 7:30 PM Page 83 Northern Range Expansion and Invasion by the Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio, of the Churchill River System in Manitoba PASCAL H. J. BADIOU1 and L. GORDON GOLDSBOROUGH1,2 1 Department of Botany, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Canada; e-mail: [email protected]; Present address: 48 DesMeurons Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2H 2M1 Canada 2 Delta Marsh Field Station, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Canada Badiou, Pascal H.J., and L. Gordon Goldsborough. 2006. Northern range expansion and invasion by the Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio, of the Churchill River system in Manitoba. Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(1): 83–86. Recent fisheries data from northern Manitoba indicates that the Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) has extended the northern limit of its range. Additionally, it also appears that carp have invaded and established viable populations in the Manitoba portion of the Churchill River. Habitat degradation and altered flow regimes as result of hydroelectric development in north- ern Manitoba may have facilitated the expansion of carp in the region. Key Words: Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio, exotic species, range expansion, invasion, habitat disturbance, Manitoba. The Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) was intro- phytes and creating an ecological feedback mechanism duced intentionally to Manitoba, Canada, when fish that perpetuates the turbid state (Scheffer 1998). Carp from Minnesota were stocked in the Assiniboine River physically disturb the sediment-water interface and the watershed southeast of Brandon in 1886 (Stewart and algae associated with sediment. These algae play a Watkinson 2004). These early attempts at introduc- major role in the stabilization of the bottom sediments tion failed, and carp only became established after pop- (Taylor et al. 1998) and the regulation of nutrient fluxes ulations from the northern U.S. entered the province across the sediment-water interface (Goldsborough and through the Red River (Atton 1959). In fact, the Com- Robinson 1985; Carlton and Wetzel 1988; Woodruff mon Carp was largely unknown in Manitoba until 1938, et al. 1999). It is thought that many of the once clear, when it was positively identified in the Red River near shallow lakes and wetlands in southern Manitoba have Lockport (Hinks 1943). Today, the Common Carp is switched to the turbid state due to the loss of sub- found throughout most of the southern and central merged macrophyte cover which, in turn, was caused regions of the province, but particularly in the Red and by the proliferation of Common Carp (Badiou 2005). Assiniboine rivers, and lakes Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Before 1940, carp were found only in the waters of Winnipegosis. Common Carp do not appear to have ex- the Red River (Figure 1a). After invading the province panded into the eastern portion of the province, likely from the south, the Common Carp spread quickly due to the fact that they cannot easily migrate upstream throughout the Red and Assiniboine River watersheds in this region because of the many obstructions they prior to the 1950s and established themselves in the would encounter (i.e., Beaver dams). Additionally, lakes south basins of lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba (Figure in this portion of the province are characterized by 1b). However, the greatest range expansion occurred rocky substrates and clear deep waters typical of the between 1950 and 1970 when carp were easily able to Precambrian Shield and do not provide suitable habi- access the northern and western portions of the province tat for viable populations of the Common Carp. after successfully invading Lake Winnipeg, Lake Man- Benthivorous fish such as the Common Carp can itoba, and Lake Winnipegosis, the largest lakes in the have profound effects in aquatic ecosystems by increas- province (Figure 1c). Swain (1979) indicated that by ing turbidity through sediment resuspension while for- 1976 the Common Carp was found in most large lakes aging and spawning (Breukelaar et al. 1994; Zambra- and virtually all major rivers in Manitoba, with the no et al. 2001). Carp are known to uproot submerged exception of the Churchill River system. macrophytes during spawning and accidentally con- A specimen collected from Split Lake (Figure 1d) sume them while foraging for benthic invertebrates in 1963 was considered to be the most northerly record (Kolterman 1990; Roberts et al. 1995; Lougheed et al. for the distribution of carp in the world (McCrimmon 1998; Zambrano and Hinojosa 1999). Sediment resus- 1968). These original reports stated that carp caught pension and excretion by carp can increase water col- from Split Lake appeared emaciated and unhealthy. umn nutrient concentrations, thereby causing phyto- According to Atton (1959), cold summer temperatures plankton to flourish (Lamarra 1975; Breukelaar et al. prevented the carp from invading the Churchill River 1994; King et al. 1997). A shading effect results from system. However, as shown in Figure 1d, the Common these blooms, further suppressing submerged macro- Carp has migrated northward through the Nelson River 83 14_05022_carp.qxd 6/5/07 7:30 PM Page 84 84 THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST Vol. 120 system and, in the last decade, has become established sustain viable populations of Common Carp in Split Lake in the Churchill River system according to carp pro- and Stephens Lake. Construction of this generating sta- duction data spanning the period from 1970 to 2004. tion increased the size of Stephens Lake by 242 km2 On the Nelson River system, carp have become and resulted in the flooding of 192 km2 of land (Envi- established in Split Lake where commercial catches ronment Canada / Fisheries and Oceans 1992a). This (3–74 kg per year) have been reported starting in 1996. created an extensive area of shallow marsh-like habitat Fish monitoring studies for the Limestone Generating where carp could spawn in the summer. This was the Station (C. Barth, personal communication) and the pro- case in Ontario where Swee and McCrimmon (1966) posed Gull Generating Station (D. J. Pisiak, unpub- reported that Lake St. Lawrence near Cornwall, formed lished data) documented Common Carp in Stephens as the result of flooding during hydroelectric develop- Lake and in the forebay of the Limestone Generating ment on the St. Lawrence River, provided ideal spawn- Station (Figure 1d). Furthermore, during the course of ing habitat for the Common Carp. However, it was also fish studies for the proposed Conawapa Generating noted that fluctuations in lake level associated with Station, a large, approximately 4 kg, Common Carp hydroelectric activities caused many of the eggs at- was caught in a backwater area near the lower Lime- tached to vegetation to be exposed and destroyed. More stone Rapids (P. Nelson, personal communication). importantly, the construction of the Kettle Generating This is the first report of Common Carp downstream Station, with a forebay head of 30 meters (Environment of the Limestone Generating Station and the most Canada / Fisheries and Oceans 1992a), created a deep northerly location documented for the Nelson River. basin with warmer profundal zone waters to which More important than the northward expansion of carp can escape during cold winter months. carp on the Nelson River system is the invasion of the The completion of the Churchill River Diversion in Churchill River system in the last decade. Recent fish- 1976 raised the water level in Southern Indian Lake by eries records for northern Manitoba provided by the approximately 3 m and flooded 187 km2 of surround- Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation indicate that ing land (Environment Canada / Fisheries and Oceans the Common Carp is now established in and around the 1992a). Like the flooding experienced on Stephens Churchill River system with commercial catches report- Lake after the construction of the Kettle Generating ed from Britton, Guthrie, Highrock, Loon, Sisipuk, and Station, flooding on Southern Indian Lake would have Southern Indian lakes (Figure 1d). Commercial catches also provided ideal spawning habitat for carp. The in these lakes were much higher (range 8–1184 kg per extensive flooding on Southern Indian Lake increased year) relative to those from Split Lake on the Nelson shoreline erosion and drastically increased suspend- River system. Carp were likely introduced into the ed sediment concentrations in the lake from 5 mg.L-1, Churchill River system from the Saskatchewan River pre-impoundment, to 30-50 mg.L-1, post-impoundment system, either by fishers using them as bait or by birds (Environment Canada / Fisheries and Oceans 1992b). that may have inoculated carp eggs from one system This anthropogenic increase in suspended sediments into the other. A thorough search of the primary liter- would have conferred a competitive advantage on carp ature and government documents revealed that Com- which can feed more efficiently in highly turbid waters mon Carp have not been reported in the Saskatchewan due to their superior olfactory senses, relative to sight- portion of the Churchill River. The fact that carp have feeders (Panek 1987). not been reported in the Churchill River in Saskatche- Water flows on the Churchill and Nelson river sys- wan indicates that the transfer of the Common Carp tems have been altered dramatically as a result of the between the Saskatchewan River and Churchill River Churchill River Diversion, which has diverted 80% of systems must have occurred within the province of the flow from the Churchill River at Southern Indian Manitoba in the vast wetland area that occurs be- Lake into the Nelson River system. Carp are found in tween these two watersheds along the Manitoba/Sas- large, slow-moving rivers as well as fast flowing streams katchewan border. (Panek 1987). Due to the ability of carp to inhabit wa- Based on the fact that carp were found in Split Lake ters of varying flow, the increased flow on the Nelson as early as 1963, it is not surprising that they have con- and decreased flow on the Churchill, as well as the in- tinued to migrate northward through the Nelson River creased variability in flows in both systems as a result system.
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