How these cottagers are restoring fish habitat on Lake St. Peter

REBECCA DUMAIS

WHEN WATERSHEDS CANADA offered an opportunity to lake communities in Hastings County to participate in a fish habitat enhancement program, which included restocking the lake with fish, Lake St. Peter’s Teddy Windmoller was keen to sign up. Teddy and his wife, Diane, moved to Lake St. Peter permanently about six years ago. He’s the former vice president of the lake’s cottager association and now volunteers at the North Hastings Community Fish Hatchery, in Bancroft, Ont. “The lakes in our area were struggling to repopulate themselves,” he says. The fish population in Lake St. Peter, in particular, had dropped because of overfishing, “and a lack of natural habitats where the fish could find safety from predators.” Habitat enhancement is a multi-phase process. For Lake St. Peter, the first phase involved adding…

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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, March/April 2025

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