Jock River Fish Habitat Embayment Creation Project

The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, with their partners, has built a fish habitat embayment at the Richmond Conservation Area, located in Ottawa, Ontario. The project involved converting an existing grassed park area into a small wetland embayment along the shore of the Jock River. Raab Construction helped construct the wetland with the assistance of many dedicated volunteers.

Construction Highlights

1,000 square metres of new spawning, nursery, rearing and feeding habitat created to support the 40 species of fish that reside in the Jock River
9 days of construction took place in October 2014
108 truckloads of fill were removed from the Jock River floodplain
100 metres of new shoreline created by re-grading the existing slope and planting a shoreline buffer around the perimeter of the new embayment

In 2014, the Jock River Embayment Creation Project won the Top Canadian Fishing Industry Conservation Project Award.

Project Partners

Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
Fisheries and Oceans Canada — Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program
Muskies Canada Ottawa Chapter
National Defence Fish and Game Club
Community Foundation of Ottawa
Ottawa Fly Fishers Society
Shell Fueling Change
Fendock