A Broad-Scale Approach to Management of Ontario's Recreational Fisheries

Autor: Terry R. Marshall, Bev Ritchie, Kim Armstrong, Nigel P. Lester, Warren I. Dunlop
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 23:1312-1328
ISSN: 1548-8675
0275-5947
DOI: 10.1577/m01-230am
Popis: Sustainable exploitation of Ontario's aquatic resources calls for a new management approach. This vast resource includes more than 250,000 lakes and offers angling opportunities for many popular species (e.g., walleye Sander vitreus (formerly Stizostedion vitreum), lake trout Salvelinus namaycush, brook trout S. fontinalis, northern pike Esox lucius, smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu, largemouth bass M. salmoides, and muskellunge E. masquinongy). In pioneer days, the “apparently inexhaustible abundance of resources” fostered an open-access policy promoting the recreational use of these resources for the benefit of the economy. After World War II, there was a rapid increase in angling effort and by the 1970s many lakes were being overexploited. Clearly, an unrestricted, open-access policy was no longer appropriate. The result has been a rapid proliferation of fishing regulations as exceptions to divisionwide regulations that were created to protect lakes where problems were detected. The growin...
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