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 – 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…
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…
It appears that for the second year in a row the AFIA, a volunteer group based in Magnetawan, won’t be permitted to carry on its very successful pickerel fry hatchery situated at the base of the Magnetawan locks.