Zec de la Rivière-Blanche

ZEC de la Rivière-Blanche is particularly renowned for tourist activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, water sports, and expeditions in the forest. On its website, L'Association sportive Miguick, Inc. (ASM) publishes various calendars, including for fishing, hunting, opening and closing of water bodies, and forest operations. Fans can thus refer to for planning their outdoors activities.[2]

The only position ZEC Home is located at Falls of Marmite, 4.4 km northeast of the town of

In the early 1980s, the land area was increased by 280 square kilometres (110 sq mi) by adding a part of the famous Club hunting and fishing Seigneurie du Triton (Lordship of Triton). The present territory of the ZEC covers 729.0 square kilometres (281.5 sq mi).

Geography

The territory of the ZEC is an integral part of the

The five main rivers are all exploited by ZEC for fishing activities:^[3]

• White River whose headwater lake is White Lake
  ;
• Batiscan Lake
• Moïse River
• Miguick River
• Batiscan River.

The territory of the ZEC includes 240 lakes, 150 are used for fishing, including lakes Brochu, Funny, Gaston and Gorren. Major lakes are:

• Batiscan Lake
  (east-west direction), which is the northeastern boundary of the territory of ZEC
• Lasalle Lake, located in the center of the ZEC
• The White Lake
• "Ci-joint lake"
• Constantin Lake

White River (Portneuf Regional County Municipality)

The

Portneuf Wildlife Reserve

The

Toponymy

The following names are all interconnected and have been registered with the Bank of place names in Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec):

• "Unorganized Territory of Lac-Blanc, Quebec", registered on March 13, 1986,
• "Zec de la Rivière-Blanche", registered on August 5, 1982
• "
  White River
  ", registered December 5, 1968,
• "White Lake", which is the largest lake in the Unorganized Territory of Lac-Blanc.

Restoration of lakes

In 2012, with the financial participation of $81,500 in grants, four lakes of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche have been treated: Lastre, Zigzag, Palme, Dual and Bert. This initiative will increase the potential for fishing. These partners are the Fondation de la faune du Québec, the Regional Conference of the Capitale-Nationale (implementation PDIRT), Ministry of Natural Resources (Phase II) and Guy Chevrette Foundation.

Restored in 2009, Swayne Lake is the first of the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale to have been restored. It was reopened to fishing in 2013. Followed, in 2014, lakes Quatre-Baies and Simard; and in 2016, the five lakes sub-basin of Lake Lastre. During the weekend of Easter 2013, the ZEC was featured in the issue "Semaine Verte" (Green Week) at Radio Canada, in a report on the restoration of lakes with rotenone.

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