The most recent model of Ontario’s leisure fishing survey has been launched. The survey, carried out each 5 years since 1975, offers a complete provincial perspective on angling.
This yr it’s titled “Chosen outcomes from the 2020 leisure fishing survey in Ontario: Fisheries administration zones, provincially important inland fisheries, and Nice Lakes.” The 72-page doc is full of attention-grabbing information in regards to the angling preferences, spending habits, and areas most well-liked by Ontario’s anglers.
Of notice, in 2020:
- There have been 795,733 lively anglers within the province.
- In complete, ice anglers spent 13,366,413 days on the arduous water, with FMZs 16 and 15 drawing probably the most anglers.
- Walleye was the most well-liked fish pursued in open water and when ice fishing.
- Walleye was the most well-liked species caught and harvested within the northwest; smallmouth bass and, to a lesser extent perch, had been probably the most caught and harvested species within the south.
- Anglers spent $1,618,217,000 in 2020 in Ontario. This was deflated from 2015 because of border restrictions that prevented international anglers from visiting the province.
- The catch and harvest charges declined in nearly all FMZs from 2005 to 2020, although remained largely unchanged from 2010 to 2020.
- Lake Simcoe, Nipissing, and Rice Lake are the three most visited provincially important inland fisheries, respectively. The Grand River is Ontario’s most visited river.
- The three areas that skilled probably the most fishing exercise had been Georgian Bay, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
- FMZ 16 and 15 had probably the most lively anglers within the province, with 167,761 and 164,604, respectively.
- The Nice Lakes FMZs had been additionally closely fished.
- The quantity of fishing exercise in southern Ontario was about 3.3 occasions increased than that within the north. This is a rise over earlier surveys.
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