Manitoba’s Recreational Angling Strategy

Why not better controls of commercial fishing? Many large fish wasted in that process. Also, what happened with stocking of lakes. It has been reduced to near nothing over the years, is it not effective?

Not in favour of changing any limits for recreational fishing
Limits on commercial fisheries is the way to regulate!
Leave live baits as is!
Leave seasons as is!
Reduce limits on none commercial fished lakes acceptable!

Live bait harvesters already have regulations to follow which mitigate AIS. It's likely Live bait users that don't follow rules. Education, Education, Education. Enforcement. Perhaps other jurisdictions have an effective AIS plan while still permitting live bait ??? Education.

Current AIS threats Mb. waters ? Effective enforcement/education for boating & aircraft etc is req'd. eg. Spring of 2021 S. Vital park had 100s of boat launches well before the inspection posts were set up. And the posts are inconsistently manned throughout open water season.

Keeping large fish isn’t good, but I can see the trouble with derbies. Encourage the catch-photo-release derby’s and the big fish will survive. It is time to move forward with ideas - not look back! Maybe make a rule that you can keep keep a truly giant fish (e.g. over 34” Walleye) for a $200 fee.

Studies show that recreational angling on lakes wpg and mb brings in many times the revenue to the province than commercial fishing does, and yet commercial fishing takes 90% of the fish. If your worried about fish stocks on the big lakes look at commercial fishing.

the big lakes need to keep the limit at 6. Some of us travel over 2 hours a dozen times a year to fish lake wpg. take the limit to 4 and its hardly worth the drive. focus on commercial fishing here rather than recreational angling

like the change to limits on walleye from 6 to 4 and most other species, not in agreement with the 70cm. Instead of lowering license cost raise them and put that money back into the resources ( AIS , Officers, Restocking )

I support this 100 percent. In the fish world, the size to population ratio is like a pyramid with smaller fish being at the bottom with a large population and the big fish being at the top with a smaller population. Larger walleyes need to be protected as they have good genes and produce many eggs

I agree Seniors should be intitled to the standard fishing limits and just have to prove age with drivers or health card .
Children that can hold a rod instead of playing a vedio game should have there own limit. Have fun kids!
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Fish limits have been reduced over a number a number of years down to 6 and 4 for walleye. Any further reduction
is unreasonable. Great strides have already been made in size and trophy limits. More fish are being released than kept now. Money from licence revenues should go into fish stocking.

You know the old saying..if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Leave it the way it is!

Although many don’t see a problem with a reduction in walleye limits from 6 to 4 on Lake Winnipeg, this reduction will have little effect if commercial fishers do not have a reduction in quota. The recreational harvest is minuscule when compared to the commercial harvest. Why reduce rec fishing?

Closing the walleye/sauger season for an extra week is huge mistake for anglers, for minimal benefit for fish. If you want to make an impact, you have to look at the where the most fish are being taken. If you can't have commercial marketing for ducks or deer, why is commercial fishing untouchable?

bring back sturgeon fishing on the wpg river catch and release, no harm done, populations are healthy.

have no problem with tournaments fishing, that's a whole different can of worms, for one or two days of expert fishing, which are all catch and release anyways, leave them alone

more co's required, live bait should not be banned zebra mussels are here to stay this should have been dealt with years ago to stop it from getting here but nothing was done as we could see it coming from the east and south sturgeon fish catch and release should be brought back to the wpg river

agree some not others keep live bait, like the opening of fishing for some year round, should be allowed to keep one master in each kind of fish one license is good but should consider three year card lowering limits to four agreed please reopen sturgeon fishing to catch and release on Wpg River

I would like to see that Seniors over 65 years of age don't have to pay any type of Fishing Licence. And that the Walleye and Sauger limit drop to four fish . Also that out out of province fishers pay more for a Fishing Licence and that Fines be higher for Poachers in and out of province.

Ed

The only good changes are for seniors licences and year around fishing.The other proposals are bad ideas .The plan to make the North Basin of Lake Manitoba a sports fishing area only by buying out the commercial fishers should be revived and acted on.