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Toronto Star tracks collaborative research in Toronto Harbour

FROM THE TORONTO STAR:

Buried in more than 10 million lines of data is the path of Walleye 423 — a course that speaks volumes about the success of efforts to clean up the Toronto Harbour. The game fish does exactly what you’d expect when it’s tagged and released in the harbour: It gets the heck out of Dodge.

What happens next is promising. The fish comes back into the harbour, right around spawning season.

“One of the things we’ve said is we’re creating fish habitat,” said Rick Portiss, a manager at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s (TRCA) restoration wing. “And so somebody said: ‘OK, prove it.’”

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