Lake Manitoba Narrows Walleye Northern Pike Ice Fishing
A program designed to clean up the banks of the Red River could potentially run all winter if Operation Cleanup gets its way. Operation Cleanup, which runs from May to the end of October each year, hoists around 40,000 pounds of garbage from the banks of the Red River annually. Program founder Rob Belanger, who [...]
Manitoba Conservation officials seized 11 ice fishing shacks from the Red River on Wednesday morning. It’s part of a plan to help keep the river clean once spring arrives, officials say. Every ice shack must have a name, address and phone number written on it so conservation officials can identify the owner if they have [...]
MANITOBA Conservation has landed the big one — a dozen ice-fishing huts on the Red River without owner identification. André Desrosiers, a natural resource officer based in Selkirk, said that after more than eight years of trying to persuade ice fishers to legibly scrawl their names and addresses near the door of their ice huts, [...]
Ice Fishermen have been getting the message since Manitoba Conservation confiscated 12 ice fishing shacks from the Red River north of Selkirk last weekend because there were no names or contact information on them.. Conservation officer Andre Desrosiers told Let’s talk Fishin on CJOB Wednesday night all the shacks they’ve checked this week have been [...]
Manitoba Conservation is hauling in some big catches from the Red River. Since last Friday, the department has seized 12 ice-fishing shacks that don’t carry their owner’s name and address. The crackdown comes after several huts spilled into the river after they were left abandoned on the ice last spring. The Manitoba Ice Fishing Association [...]
Personal information collected on angling licenses falls under the authority of the Fisheries Act (Chapter F90), Fishing Licensing Regulation 124/97 and will be used only for existing program activities, surveys and enforcement by Manitoba Conservation. It is protected by the Protection of Privacy provisions of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. For [...]
All ice fishing shelters must clearly display the owner’s name and address. Ice fishing shelters must be removed by March 13 on the Red River, by March 31 in the rest of the Southern Division and by April 15 in the Northwest, North Central and Northeast Divisions, or when requested to do so by a [...]
By GRN staff A husband and wife team of Metis citizens who were charged with exceeding limits after their catch of walleye was seized by officials of the provincial Conservation Department will fight to defend their rights as defined in their Metis Harvester cards. Jean and Edith Desrosiers are ready to go to court at [...]
