crosshairs

Hi Jocko,

I'm new to this but any questions you may have about the native fishery, their regs, the ice out trap netting for pike, musky, bass can be answered quite easily. Just contact Richard Rowe at the NFN band office, his office is located within its lands department. We are always sharing our information with whoever is interested. He was on this facebook page for a bit answering legitimate questions until page got removed.

I think it might be very hard to quantify the native harvest. How large was it 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago? I don't think any figures were kept, were there? If there had been, we could guess at how much impact netting had, and whether current levels are a concern.

 

Somebody mentioned 1000 huts on Nipissing in the winter. Is that a guess, or is it based on something solid?

 

It seems to me there's so much we don't know, and the main fault for that would go to the MNR - either for not researching and keeping various stats, or for playing them so close to the vest that we have a hard time quantifying things. I could be wrong, but I always get the feeling from the MNR that they would rather sit on any information they have, rather than share with the public. They don't like dealing with the public. What do you get if you go to the north Bay MNR office now? --- a little porch with a locked door and a telephone where you're supposed to dial the extension of the person you want to speak to. An extra catch? --- There's NO DIRECTORY BESIDE THE TELEPHONE!

 

The place is like a little Fort Knox.

The problem with this low water is the walleye won't get to their spawning sites, then they will raise the water after the spawn putting the eggs in water that maybe too deep for their survival. Hope we get some rain prior to the spawn.

here is some info on Nips blue walleye.

http://www.nipissing-naturalist.com/SAR/blue_walleye.htm

I thought there might be some interest in having a look at a netting boat. Here's a photo I snapped last month. I "grayed out" the faces simply as a courtesy...

 

That pic you have is actually the first nation's boat doing water samples, and patrolling for illegal shoreline work.