ACHP and local students team up
The ACHP and Magnetawan Central School team up to promote Walleye fish stocks in Ahmic Lake.
The AFIA is now the ACHP
For close to 40 years the Almaguin Fish Improvement Association (AFIA) has provided volunteer services to the Almaguin area through our hatchery and learning center initiatives.
The nets are in!
The nets are in the water! We should be ready for action tomorrow (Tuesday May 16th) Come down to dockside behind the LCBO and see it live
Spring 2015 AFIA Update
Our Spring 2015 update from the AFIA
Thank you from the AFIA
AFIA receives commitment from The Honourable Bill Mauro, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry
Magnetawan fishery keeps swimming
In an apparent about face, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry offered an agreement to the Almaguin Fish Improvement Association that lets the walleye-stocking operation run for another year, until March 21, 2016.
Miller fights to keep the AFIA in operation
I rise in the House today to recognize the local support being shown for the Almaguin Fish Improvement Association in Parry Sound–Muskoka. The AFIA is a community stewardship program that has been involved in conserving native pickerel populations in Lake Cecebe and Ahmic Lake for over 30 years
Magnetawan hatchery spawning discordnm
MAGNETAWAN – Getting the Magnetawan fish hatchery back will be an upstream battle. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is no longer funding the Magnetawan River hatchery and management biologist Stephen Scholten says it’s for good reason. “In general we don’t believe that supplemental stocking is beneficial,” Scholten, who works out of the ministry’s…
Plan hatched for Magnetawan fishery
MAGNETAWAN – There’s something fishy in the water. The Almaguin Fish Improvement Association has been stocking both Ahmic and Cecebe Lakes with walleye fry for the majority of the past 35 years. But that could be changing. “We have been informed that the genetic testing costs and record keeping are too much for the Ministry…
Magnetawan Central students go fish
For the third year, Almaguin Fish Improvement Association members Bruce Campbell and George Brooks presented to the primary and junior classes at MCS.