The Véronique River (french: Rivière Véronique) is a river in the
Côte-Nord
Côte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadous ...
region of the province of
Quebec, Canada. It flows into the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence, opposite to
Anticosti Island.
Location
The Véronique River drains Lake Véronique and Little Lake Véronique.
It flows for about from Lake Véronique at its mouth.
The mouth of the river is in the municipality of
Baie-Johan-Beetz in Minganie Regional County Municipality.
The river enters the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the northeast of the Baie Quetchou, just east of the Baie Johan-Beetz.
The
Quetachou River
The Quetachou River (french: Rivière Quetachou) is a river in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Location
The Quetachou River rises above Lac de la Robe Noire, which drains Lac Fr ...
enters the northwest of the same bay.
The bay is about east of
Havre-Saint-Pierre.
Basin
The river basin covers .
It lies between the basins of the
Watshishou River
The Watshishou River (french: Rivière Watshishou) is a salmon river in the east of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.
Location
The Watshishou River originates in Lake Watshishou, and flows south via Lake Holt and Little Lake Holt to enter ...
to the east and the Quetachou River to the west.
It includes part of the unorganized territory of
Lac-Jérôme as well as part of Baie-Johan-Beetz.
The river has low volume and the current is slow.
Donat Devost and his sons set up a sawmill on the Véronique River around 1953.
Six years later the mill was sold to Lorenzo Tanguay.
In 1969 Tanguay moved the sawmill to Lac Salé and closed the business.
Environment
A map of the
ecological regions of Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain.
The north of the Véronique valley has potential for use by
moose
The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult mal ...
(''Alces alces''), and traces of moose were found in the region in 1978 and 1979.
Beaver
Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...
(''Castor canadensis'') is well represented in the river basin.
The Véronique River has low potential for
Canada goose
The Canada goose (''Branta canadensis''), or Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is o ...
(''Branta canadensis'') and average potential for surface ducks and diving ducks.
Fish
The river is used by
Atlantic salmon
The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...
(''Salmo salar''),
brook trout
The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae. It is native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada, but has been introduced elsewhere ...
(''Salvelinus fontinalis'') and
American eel
The American eel (''Anguilla rostrata'') is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder, a group of phylogenetically ancient teleosts. The America ...
(''Anguilla rostrata'').
Atlantic tomcod (''Microgadus tomcod'') has also been reported.
It is narrow, its bed is littered with trees and the vegetation along its course is dense, so it is not attractive for sport fishing.
It is not officially a salmon river, and does not have the physical characteristics preferred by salmon.
The bed of the river is clay and mud along almost its entire length.
However, juvenile salmon were found in samples in 1980 and 1984, so there must be some good spawning areas.
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Rivers of Côte-Nord