1793 Alexander Mackenzie, his party of nine men and one canoe started on their trek up the Peace River to the fork of the Finlay and Parsnip Rivers. They took the Parsnip River, crossed the
E. McFadden, made a tripby canoe to Big Buffalo Lake which was thought to be a spawning groundof this fish.These data were suplemented by a daily census of the catchof individual fishermen carrying on commercial fishing operations,and by concerning the native population. The latter source ...