Ottawa, ON – The deadline to apply for Federal Government funding through the Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program (RFCPP) is Wednesday, December 18th, 2013.

The RFCPP was developed to support projects led by recreational fishing and angling ...

Ontario Conservation Officers Association Reminds Hunters to Stay Safe This Hunting Season

Monday December 2^nd will be opening day for some controlled deer hunts and muzzleloader deer seasons across much of Southern and Central Ontario. The Ontario Conservation Officers Association (OCOA) wants to take this opportunity to remind hunters to always practice ...

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Grant Ferris
Grey/Bruce Outdoors

For more than a century, Ontario anglers have baited the lake bottom under their ice huts to attract fish. Until recent restrictions came into effect, Lake Simcoe rental hut providers used enormous numbers of summer-caught salted minnows to attract lakers and whitefish for their ice-fishing customers. About twenty-five or thirty years ago, a few Georgian Bay anglers ...

Ontario is reminding anglers and hunters to renew their Outdoors Cards.

Most people need an Outdoors Card, along with a hunting or fishing licence tag, to hunt or fish
in the province.

The card is valid for three calendar years and all cards expire on the same date at the ...

NEWS, October 21, 2013

The Ministry of Natural Resources laid 90 charges totaling $10,930 in fines during a two weekend enforcement blitz on Lake Ontario tributaries across the Greater Toronto Area.

During two weekends in September and October, Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers from Peterborough, Guelph and Aurora districts, ...

The information presented here is a summary of the law. For complete information on fines, general prohibitions, permitted hunting methods and equipment, the requirement to have adequate means to retrieve birds immediately, restrictions on the use of bait, the description ...

In 2008, the province of Ontario created 20 new Fisheries Management Zones to replace the 37 fishing divisions. To assist anglers with this transition, MNR is providing the following maps that explain the exceptions and additional fishing opportunities for selected Great ...