The Baitfish Primer, a key guide from Fisheries and Oceans Canada that allows recreational fishers to identify legal and illegal live bait, is now available as a mobile app. The new app allows fish harvesters to take the guide with … Continued
New Year’s Day (January 1) marked the opening of the 2019 Nova Scotia winter fishing season. Nova Scotia freshwater lakes open for winter offer opportunities for brook and rainbow trout, white and yellow perch, and chain pickerel. The Department of … Continued
A review of Ontario’s Lake Nipissing walleye management concluded that current practices are the best option to stabilize and recover the walleye fishery, according to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. In April 2016, the province commissioned an internationally-recognized … Continued
The Lake Ontario Committee (LOC) recently announced trout and salmon stocking reductions in response to conclusive evidence of two successive years of poor alewife reproduction. The stocking reductions, which are moderate in size, are intended to help reduce predatory demand … Continued
The Government of Canada is taking action, through collaborative science, to support the recovery of declining Atlantic salmon stocks on Canada’s East Coast. In October, Parliamentary Secretary Serge Cormier, on behalf of the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans … Continued