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What we do. Sustainably manage Ontario’s fish and wildlife resources. Lead the management of Ontario’s Crown lands, water, oil, gas, salt and aggregates resources, including making Crown land available for renewable energy projects. Ensure the sustainable management of Ontario’s Crown forests. Protect people, property and communities from ...
- Outdoors Card
Before you can buy hunting licences and tags, your hunter...
- Licence (Non-Residents)
How to get a fishing licence if you plan to visit Ontario to...
- WMU
The province of Ontario is subdivided into 95 wildlife...
- Forestry
Ontario’s Crown forests cover almost two-thirds of the...
- Recreational Activities
Camping on Crown land. Camping is allowed for free on most...
- Invasive Species
Garden responsibly. To avoid introducing or spreading...
- Aggregates
Changes to the way aggregates are managed in Ontario On...
- Land Use Policy Atlas
This tool contains area-specific land use policy for Crown...
- Outdoors Card
Jun 15, 2023 · What you need to know before fishing in Ontario. Includes how to get a fishing licence, Outdoors Card, city fishing, camping on crown land, and eating Ontario fish. Buy your Outdoors Card and licences online with our Fish and Wildlife Licensing Service.
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- Summary
- Purpose of The Provincial Fish Strategy
- The Fisheries Resource Today
- Key Trends and Emerging Issues
- The Current Strategic Planning Context
- Roles & Responsibilities For Fisheries Management
- Key Management Approaches
- Ontario’s Provincial Fish Strategy
- Implementation
- Appendix 1: Glossary
This is a guiding document for managing fisheries resources in Ontario. It identifies provincial fisheries goals, objectives and tactics to achieve them. The main purposes of the strategy are to improve the conservation and management of Ontario’s fisheries resources; and to promote, facilitate and encourage fishing as an activity that contributes ...
Ontario’s fisheries resources are an important part of its biodiversityfootnote 1, and contribute to the province’s economic, social, and environmental well-being. This document, Ontario’s Provincial Fish Strategy: Fish for the Future, sets out a practical and strategic framework for managing Ontario’s fisheries resources from 2015 forward. It iden...
Ontario has a large and diverse aquatic resource with over 250,000 lakes and countless rivers and streams. Fish benefit Ontario’s ecology and ecosystems, as well as its cultures and economy. The province’s inland and Great Lakes fish communities provide a diverse range of year-round recreational, commercial and First Nations and Métis fisheries. To...
Ontario is a different place than when the Strategic Plan for Ontario Fisheries II (SPOF II) was released in 1992. The province’s population, economy, and environment have all changed dramatically in the intervening years, altering the location and nature of pressures on fisheries resources. Recognizing these forces, MNRFconducted an environmental ...
Ontario’s Provincial Fish Strategy: Fish for the Future builds on the legacy of over forty years of fisheries strategic planning, providing a practical framework to guide MNRF’s management of the province’s fisheries resources. It is guided by other MNRF strategic direction, including Our Sustainable Future: A Renewed Call to Action (2011); Biodive...
Legislative and policy framework
Under Canada’s Constitution Act, responsibility for fisheries management is divided between the federal government, which has authority over the seacoast and inland fisheries, and the provinces, which have authority over natural resources, management and sale of public lands, and property and civil rights. At the federal level, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has primary responsibility for fisheries; in Ontario, the primary agency is MNRF. Other agencies and levels of government also have m...
Fisheries management tools
MNRF’smandate is delivered through statutes, regulations, policy, planning, program development and program delivery. A variety of fisheries management tools are available, and the right tool for one job may not be ideal for another: 1. Fisheries management planning:Fisheries management planning provides guidance for managing fisheries at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Planning is focussed on ensuring the sustainability of fisheries and informs the allocation of fisheries resources wit...
MNRFmanages natural resources and their use across Ontario’s diverse ecosystems, addressing regional and local differences in social, economic and ecological objectives. This requires the integration of management objectives and approaches for many species and their habitats, in the context of varied human activities and multiple stressors. An ecos...
As noted in the introduction to this document, this Provincial Fish Strategy identifies goals, objectives and tactics to guide MNRF’s management, science and cooperative activities for managing Ontario’s fisheries resources. MNRF’s vision describes the optimal state of Ontario’s fisheries resources, while the mission defines MNRF’s role in achievin...
Ontario’s Provincial Fish Strategy: Fish for the Future represents a major step forward in strategic planning for Ontario’s aquatic ecosystems and fisheries. Embedded within the Strategy are several overarching themes that provide the framework for managing fish resources and are consistent with policy direction elsewhere in the Ontario government:...
Aboriginal Peoples
1. Use of the term Aboriginal in this Strategy is intended to be consistent with the definition provided in the Constitution Act, 1982. “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” includes the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada.
Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK)
1. Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge, the traditional knowledge held by First Nations and Métis peoples.
Adaptive Management
1. A systematic approach to improving management and accommodating change by learning from the outcome of management interventions.
The following sections describe management of wildlife in Canada which shares many of the foundations and approaches with those in place in the U.S. but some notable differences exist, as described in the following sections. Similar to AFWA’s leadership on behalf of wildlife management in the U.S., the Canadian Wildlife Directors Committee ...
6. Fish and wildlife. The Fish and Wildlife Program manages Ontario’s fish and wildlife resources to ensure the sustainability of wildlife populations, and the management of fishing, hunting and trapping opportunities for recreation, sport, and commercial purposes.
This guide supports the Natural Heritage Reference Manual. It provides detailed information on identifying, describing and prioritizing significant wildlife habitat. Planning authorities — or anyone involved in assessing wildlife habitat significance — should use, or require proponents to use, the guide when completing an ecological site assessment. Available in English only.
Laura Vachula. If you reel in a lake trout from Lake Erie or Lake Ontario, there’s a good chance it was hatched at a national fish hatchery. Every spring, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stocks more than 500,000 of these fish in the Great Lakes.
