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Originally Posted by Penner
I believe Sask had 15,000 licensed anglers, Alberta had 300,000 licensed anglers.
Sask has 50k fish bearing water bodies, Alberta about 1.2k.
That should easily answer the question.
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I've always thought this was the answer, and for the northern part of the province it probably is. However, if you look at the two most densely populated cities in Sask (Regina and Saskatoon) they have relatively few lakes close by to fish. Saskatoon for example has less lakes within an hour than Calgary would. Blackstrap is the closest lake to Saskatoon, and anytime I ice fished there it was busier than any lakes close to Calgary in the winter. Somehow though, Blackstrap fished way better than any of our nearby reservoirs and they also have fairly liberal retention limits. I also always wondered how it could sustain so many perch being harvested, but it seems to keep producing despite the pressure.