Yellow Fish Road
You can protect water, soil, and living things through the Yellow Fish Road™ program.
Ausable Bayfield Conservation is an official partner with Trout Unlimited Canada and delivers this program throughout the watershed.
The Yellow Fish Road™ program is offered from April to October. It is an easy, effective way to engage youth and community members in protecting and improving the water quality of our river, streams, and lake.
You are invited to contact Ausable Bayfield Conservation about how you can bring Yellow Fish Road™ to your school, neighbourhood, or community.
Phone 519-235-2610 or toll-free 1-888-286-2610 or email info@abca.ca
Yellow Fish Road™ 2025
Ailsa Craig Scouts painted more than 15 yellow fish along the main street in 2025.
There were 11 students and three adults who took part.
Thank you for helping to protect our water!
Yellow Fish Road™ 2019
Grand Bend Public School and Seaforth Public School both took part in Yellow Fish Road™ in 2019.
There were 47 students and seven adults who took part.
Yellow Fish Road™ 2018
Stephen Central Public School (at the school and in Huron Park); Seaforth Public School; Wilberforce Public School (twice); Big Brothers Big Sisters South Huron; and Exeter Scouts all took part in the Yellow Fish Road™ program in 2019.
There were 182 students and 35 adults who took part.
Yellow Fish Road™ 2017
Yellow Fish Road™ came to Lucan for the first time in 2017.
Local students painted yellow fish to remind people to keep oil, chemicals, waste, and other substances off the ground, out of storm drains, and out of local rivers and the lake.
Local Grade 7 and 8 students from Wilberforce Public School took part to mark 100 storm drains and visit an equal number of households to deliver a yellow paper fish with a message of 'Only Rain in Storm Drains' and information about the program and safe hazardous waste disposal.
Yellow Fish Road™ 2016
If you walk through the streets of Zurich and Bayfield and Clinton, Ontario, you may notice images of bright yellow fish painted beside storm drains which are found under the street along some roadways.
1st Bayfield Guides painted yellow fish all the way down Main Street in Bayfield and the 1st Zurich Beavers painted yellow fish across the north end of the streets in Zurich.
Theree were about 80 drains painted on the streets in Bluewater.
Trout Unlimited Canada launched the Yellow Fish Road™ program in 1991
Trout Unlimited Canada launched the Yellow Fish Road™ in 1991.
The program has grown across the country.
More than 60,000 volunteers have taken part.
Volunteers in the program paint yellow fish symbols next to storm drains and give out fish-shaped brochures to homes and businesses.
This is to remind us that things that go into the storm drain end up in the water we use for drinking, fishing, and swimming.
If we teach one person to properly dispose of household hazardous waste that can keep pollution out of our creeks, rivers, and Lake Huron.