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This report reviews the fifth year of a planned multi-year adaptive management experiment involving the experimental fertilization of the North Arm of Kootenay Lake. This experiment remains one of the largest and most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks (MoELP) and, next to Chilko Lake, B.C. (20,032 ha), the North Arm of Kootenay Lake (17,363 ha) is the second largest lake to have undergone experimental fertilization world-wide. The overall Kootenay Lake budget expenditures for the 1996/97 fiscal year were $511,000, with the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program contributing $486,000 and MoELP contributing $25,000.
The 1996 fertilizer application schedule included a total combined annual application of 712,228 litres (942 metric tonnes) of liquid fertilizer (ammonium polyphosphate; 10-34-0 and urea-ammonium nitrate; 28-0-0). Fertilizer treatment started on 20 April 1996 and continued to 30 August 1996. The fertilizer N:P ratio (weight to weight basis) was modified at 3-4 week intervals and increased from ...
Ashley, Ken, Thompson, Lisa C.; Lombard, Darci; Yang, Ying-Rong; Pick, Frances R.; Hamilton, Paul B.; Lasenby, David C.; Smokorowski, Karen E.; Sebastian, Dale; Scholten, George. 1999. Kootenay Lake Fertilization Experiment - Year 5 (1996/97) Report. Ministry of Fisheries. Fisheries Project Report. RD 65
Keywords: adaptive management experiment, experimental fertilization, North Arm, Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, phytoplankton, zooplankton, Mysis, kokanee, Gerrard
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