[huntsfurfish]

Originally Posted by petecatch

Cover up of the underlying problem supported by misleading statistics:



These stats are so crazy different, they're suspect, so then you think..

Most of the anglers in SK, MB and ON live in the Southern section and there are less lakes in the south, angling pressure is very similar for the amount of water. Stats Canada shows that.

Dig further and it's not hard to find the underlying cause. Alberta stocks no walleye and stocks embarrassingly few fish:

2016:
SK: 11.2million, 9.9 million walleye
ON: ~8milion
AB: 1.3milion, 0 walleye

SK stocks 800% more fish than AB, and ON stocks 600% more.

Alberta gets nearly twice the revenue from angling licenses. What is our money being used for? It's being mismanaged, and they want us to pay for it too.

There are options on the survey that are not provided, like "More Stocking".

The survey is biased, misleading and supports an underlying agenda. We need to wise up, the last few surveys have also been biased in this way too.

quote "Most of the anglers in SK, MB and ON live in the Southern section and there are less lakes in the south, angling pressure is very similar for the amount of water. Stats Canada shows that." quote

Except that most of Albertas lakes are in the North as well. Should also mention not only more water bodies in those other provinces but much larger water bodies as well. Lake Diefenbaker(south) 800km shoreline alone has more water than all the water south of Red deer. Manitoba has Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnepeg in the South. Ontario has Lake of the Woods, Nipigon, Superior, Huron, Ni****ing, Simcoe, Erie and Ontario as well as some that I mentioned in a previous post.



Quote "Dig further and it's not hard to find the underlying cause. Alberta stocks no walleye and stocks embarrassingly few fish:

2016:
SK: 11.2million, 9.9 million walleye
ON: ~8milion
AB: 1.3milion, 0 walleye

SK stocks 800% more fish than AB, and ON stocks 600% more. quote

Alberta stocks trout for put and take fishery. Stocks walleye when needed.
Stocking walleye just to stock walleye is not a good use of our underfunded fisheries. And if recruitment is good it is basically just wasteful.

Quote "Alberta gets nearly twice the revenue from angling licenses. What is our money being used for? It's being mismanaged, and they want us to pay for it too." quote

Money for licenses goes to ACA and licence provider. Government gets the 5%. Many threads about all of this for you to catch up on. And Alberta licenses still very low.