The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that the federal government has ordered the company that owns the Eagle Gold mine in Yukon to build barriers to protect fish from cyanide-contaminated water after 68 dead fish were found after a discharge of treated water from the site of a massive ore slide. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe quotes Cameron Sinclair, a Yukon government fisheries biologist, saying Friday that the fish were discovered last week by the mine's owner, Victoria Gold, and they are believed to have died after a release from the mine's water treatment plant. He said some of the fish were Arctic Graylings and some were Sculpins, and the company has since frozen the dead specimens "to store for later analysis." Mr. Sinclair said the company stopped discharging treated water after finding the fish kill, and the federal Fisheries Department has now ordered the company to build seven fish barriers in Haggart Creek to create a "no-go zone for fish." The mine was voluntarily shut after the ore was released from the heap-leach facility on June 24, spilling about two million tonnes of cyanide-laced rock. Yukon's chief veterinary officer said the fish deaths are consistent with cyanide toxicity.