The ZEC Chauvin is a "

zone d'exploitation contrôlée A ''zone d'exploitation contrôlée'' (in French; acronym ZEC) is a "Controlled harvesting zone" located in public lands areas of Quebec, in Canada. ZECs are a system of territorial infrastructures set up in 1978 by the Government of Quebec to take ...

" (controlled harvesting zone) of , located partly in the unorganized territory of the Mont-Valin, in

Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality Le Fjord-du-Saguenay (''The Fjord of the Saguenay iver') is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Saint-Honoré, which is also its most populous municipality. It is named for the f ...

, in the administrative region Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in

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, in

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Geography

The ZEC Chauvin which is covering , is located on the northeast of the

Saguenay River __NOTOC__ The Saguenay River () is a major river of Quebec, Canada. It drains Lac Saint-Jean in the Laurentian Highlands, leaving at Alma and running east; the city of Saguenay is located on the river. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River. T ...

. It is bounded by rivers Sainte-Marguerite (on south), and Sainte-Marguerite Northeast (east and north). ZEC is located close to other ZEC Martin-Valin (west) and Nordic (east). At South of the territory, route 172 goes along the Sainte-Marguerite. The ZEC has 249 lakes, 231 are used for fishing. ZEC has 75 campsites in the cleared zone and equipped with dry toilets and sinks. These sites are designed for camping with trailer. The magnificent Lake Regis Falls worth a visit. To get there, visitors travel the route 138 to

Tadoussac Tadoussac () is a village in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence rivers. The indigenous Innu call the place ''Totouskak'' (plural for ''totouswk'' or ''totochak'') meaning "bosom", probably in reference to the t ...

. Five kilometers after the village of

, take the route 172, in the village of Sacré-Coeur. On this road, the visitor takes the "chemin du moulin" (path of the mill) on the right and then the C900 road to the entrance station (located southeast of ZEC).

Hunting and Fishing

The territory of the ZEC supports the observation of ducks, including withers Iceland whose species is considered a vulnerable birds of

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. Females lay their eggs in cavities in large trees or in nest boxes installed by the

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. Annually, females traveling with their brood of ducklings on the lakes of Zec in early July. As for fishing, the arctic knight, the

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 ...

and whitefish are subject to a contingency which is described on the website of the ZEC. As for recreative hunting, ZEC applies a contingency for

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 ...

, the

black bear Black bear or Blackbear may refer to: Animals * American black bear (''Ursus americanus''), a North American bear species * Asian black bear (''Ursus thibetanus''), an Asian bear species Music * Black Bear (band), a Canadian First Nations group ...

, the

grouse Grouse are a group of birds from the order Galliformes, in the family Phasianidae. Grouse are presently assigned to the tribe Tetraonini (formerly the subfamily Tetraoninae and the family Tetraonidae), a classification supported by mitochondr ...

and

hare Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores, and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The ge ...

. These animals are usually abundant in the ZEC.

Toponymy

The toponym "Chauvin" refers to a ZEC, a lake and a stream, located in the territory of the ZEC. The name of the ZEC recalls the merit of Pierre Chauvin, lord of Tonnetuit, born in

Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) Dieppe (; Norman: ''Dgieppe'') is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Ne ...

before 1575 and died in

Honfleur Honfleur () is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit Honf ...

in February 1603. He was a captain in the navy and the

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, Lieutenant General of the

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. In 1600, he came to establish a fur trading post on the left bank of the mouth of the

, in

. The name "ZEC Chauvin" was recorded on August 5, 1982, at the Bank of place names in the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according ...

(Geographical Names Board of Quebec)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chauvin, ZEC Protected areas established in 1979 Protected areas of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

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