bad cheese
This picture is from the "Goldhawk fights back" website. The white area is alleged to be discharge from the Silani cheese factory in Schomberg, Ontario. The biproducts from cheese making are apparently badly polluting local waterways, including Lake Simcoe, and some people have been suggesting that this is directly affecting the lake trout population in that lake.
If Silani is causing this problem, they should be footing the bill for a massive clean-up, starting NOW!
9 comments:
is the white stuff the pollution? looks like an awfully small lake for lakers. mm, lake trout. sorry, homer moment there.
the white stuff is the whey....i think it is going into feeder streams of simcoe and the holland marsh, and the streams are bringing the stuff down to the lake
doh... you said the white stuff was pollution in your post now that I was re-reading, my apologies.
yeah, they need to do something about that quick, that's awful for that small a body of water. was just on a fly-in trip up your way a month ago or so btw, loved it. nice blog, you're on my toolbar faves.
thanks Kelly. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Where was the fly-in trip? Many years ago, I did a few of those with my father, north of Nakina. Later, I moved on to canoe-tripping, and then after I discovered fly fishing, I started spending more and more time in the mountain west.
flew into lake seseganaga out of ignace. very nice, was expecting to rough it but on the american plan, didn't happen, the people that ran the lodge were unbelievably nice. not great fishing as we hit peak of the mayfly hatch so totally scattered, but I was just loving the location/remoteness so didn't matter (catching fish is a bonus imho).
bought a fly rod maybe 3 years ago, always wanted to get into it, but still haven't gotten it wet, sigh.
want to go on a canoe trip to the boundary waters in northern mn (with the rest of my friends that do it all the time), maybe I'll get my chance then.
We have many very good canoe routes in Ontario. In May, my buddy Mike and I canoed the Sand, north of Wawa. We took the Algoma Central Railway up to Sand Lake, and canoed back almost to Lake Superior. It was very, very beautiful, with some good brook trout fishing available as a bonus.
a lot of dairies think because their stuff is a food product it is bio degradable and not a hazard to the environment. But, the upside is, it may encourage the dairy to find new and environmentally sound uses for their by-products. Thats what happened at Ben and Jerry's in Vermont a few years back. They turned their waste into profitable products (i believe mostly agricultural products)
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