2017 Lake Simcoe Muskie Restoration Program
The following weekly updates were sent to Muskies Canada and Orillia Fish and Game Club reps as well as some key MNRF staff, each week during the five week trapnetting program. Periodically additional information was provided (and included in the updates) by hatchery staff after the trapnetting and our egg collections efforts were finished. Thank […]
Rideau River Muskie Study
Read/download the full thesis by clicking the link below (PDF – 552 KB) Comparative spatial ecology of sympatric adult muskellunge and northern pike during a one-year period in an urban reach of the Rideau River, Canada Abstract: The reach of the Rideau River that flows through Ottawa, Ontario supports a recreational fishery for northern pike […]
Egg Collection – Week 7 Update
Week Seven Update: (June 6-10) Wil Wegman <°))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 The first full week of no trap netting on Gloucester Pool in search of muskies for an egg collection is now behind us and crews from Midhurst and Aurora went back to their busy […]
Egg Collection – Week 6
Week Six Update: (May 22-May 27) Wil Wegman <°))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 Hi Everyone, Another whirl-wind week on the wild and wonderful trapnetting circuit for the wily egg collection crew on G Pool. It began on the beautiful Sunday morning of the Victoria Day […]
Egg Collection – Week 5
Wil Wegman <°))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 May 20, 2016 Week Five Update: Hi Everyone, A very rainy day one began early Saturday May 14, when MNRF staff Kate, Brent and Wil checked the nets to fish the by-catch. Not wanting to lose the opportunity to […]
Egg Collection – Week 4
Wil Wegman <°))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 May 13, 2016 Slowly but surely the 2016 trapnetting crews on Gloucester Pool are gaining confidence that they will reach their goals of capturing muskie and collecting 3 families worth of eggs for the hatcheries. This confidence however has […]
Egg Collection – Week 3
Wil Wegman <°))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 May 6 2016 Ok … Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a curve and I swear wants to test our fortitude … and that’s exactly what continued week 3 of our muskie trapnetting/egg collection program on G Pool! As outlined […]
Egg Collection – Week 2
Wil Wegman <°))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 April 29th Oh my! Another rather uneventful week on the Pool. Much to our dismay, the weather continues to play havoc with our efforts to not only collect muskie eggs, but to even capture any muskie in our nets. […]
Ask the Biologist
This information never gets old ! Originally published in the May/June Release Journal 2012. Steve Kerr is a senior fisheries biologist with Fisheries Policy Section of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. He has worked as a biologist at various locations in the province for more than 35 years. Steve has had a long involvement […]
Spring Egg Collection – Week 1
Every year the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry conducts a spring egg collection in and around the Gloucester pool. Trap nets are set to capture ripe females and males to provide eggs and milt. The fertilized eggs then go to Fleming College and two Ministry hatcheries to provide the fingerlings that will be […]