MAGNETAWAN – They were close, but it looks like it’s no fry again this year for the Almaguin Fish Improvement Association (AFIA).
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.
This is despite their finding a new ally.
The group was shut down in 2007 by the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), after a biologist in the Parry Sound office came to the conclusion that their 20 years of volunteer work wasn’t having an impact on local fish stock in the Magnetawan River system.
