Province issues notice to remove ice shacks from frozen waterways due to warm weather

Ice fishers in southern and central Manitoba are urged to remove ice shacks from the province’s lakes and rivers as soon as possible. Manitoba Conservation said the warm temperatures have caused unsafe conditions on the ice, and they are deteriorating faster than normal. The province has asked anyone venturing out on the ice to be [...]

Mild Weather Cuts Ice Fishing Season Short in Manitoba

Anglers are being encouraged to remove their fishing shacks from lakes and rivers in Manitoba. The province advised Thursday that all shacks should be removed from the ice in southern and central Manitoba as soon as possible, as long as it’s safe to do so. Normally shacks can remain until March 31, but mild temperatures [...]

Anglers few and far between

Ron Willoughby of River Hills is a lonely man these days. That’s because his is the only ice fishing shack in front of the La Verendrye Boat Launch in Lac du Bonnet. “I’ve been out fishing a couple of times. My son’s been out about five times,” Willoughby says. “The ice is about 12 inches [...]

Anglers must ‘step up to the plate’

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 [...]

Conservation officials seize ice fishing shacks

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 [...]

Province confiscating unidentified ice-fishing shacks

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 getting the message

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 [...]

Ice-fishing shacks seized from Red River

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 [...]

Protection of Privacy Act

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 [...]

Ice Fishing Shelters

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 [...]

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