Community Hatchery Program
4601 Guthrie Dr K9J 0C9 Peterborough, ON, Canada

It's here! The 2021 Ontario Fishing Regulations Summary is now available online at ontario.ca/fishingregulations. Printed copies are expected to arrive this week at participating ServiceOntario and private licence issuer locations.

This year’s Chinook salmon egg collection may have looked a little different, but our staff were able to collect approximately 800,000 eggs! This is more than e...nough eggs to meet our stocking needs. After being reared at Normandale Fish Culture Station, these fish will be stocked into several locations around Lake Ontario, providing more angling opportunities for you! Thanks to Normandale and Lake Ontario Management Unit staff for all your eggs-cellent work!

Once again Normandale Fish Culture Station stocked retired Atlantic Salmon brood stock at the club ramp November 23 & 30. All fish have a "spaghetti" tag so please report all catches to the MNRF. A big thank you to the staff for their hard work

Last month, North Hastings Community Fish Hatchery completed a very successful wild Lake Trout egg collection. Volunteers used our Hooked ON Hatcheries video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikd5vKxpSjM) and CHP Fish Culture Guide (http://www.communityhatcheries.com//CH_FishCultureGuide.pdf) as a training tool before and during the collection.

UPDATE (December 3rd): The Chinook salmon alvin have been moved from the incubator trays to the small rearing tanks. The egg sacks are gone. The next step is to... get them to start eating the fine food. The alvin will spend several weeks in the small rearing tanks before being moved into the larger tanks. UPDATE (November 20th): The Chinook salmon have hatched :) The alvin will remain in the incubator trays for a couple of weeks until the egg sack is gone. Then they will be transferred to the two small rearing tanks. UPDATE (November 13th): The first Chinook salmon have started to hatch in the incubator trays. The Chinook salmon eggs look healthy. They should hatch over the next week or so Another cycle begins at the Bluewater Anglers fish culture station in Point Edward. We collected our 2020 allotment of 110,000 Chinook salmon eggs at the Mill Dam in Owen Sound last Friday. The salmon eggs are currently in our incubator trays. The salmon are expected to hatch in mid/late November, The Chinook salmon fingerlings will be release into lower Lake Huron in late April 2021.

Staying apart while reeling the data in! Physical distancing hasn’t slowed our aquatics researchers down. Using updated health and safety protocols and followi...ng health guidelines, our staff are busy in the field and in the lab: Assessing fish populations Monitoring fish growth and survival Collecting data on fish communities Examining fish genetics Their work informs fisheries management. Find out more about our aquatics research at https://www.ontario.ca/page/aquatic-research. #MNRFScience

MNRF staff are starting up a new research project on lake trout in Lake Simcoe. Check back over the next few months to find out what they are doing and how you can help. #MNRFScience

The OFAH/Fitzsimons Fish and Wildlife Conservation Internship is an exciting early-career opportunity to work with the OFAH's fish and wildlife professionals on... a range of policy and conservation program projects. Previous OFAH interns have gone on to undertake graduate degrees and/or work with other stakeholder organizations, provincial agencies and the OFAH. Complete job details at www.ofah.org/jobs/fish-wildlife-conservation-internship/ Application Deadline: October 30, 2020 11:59pm Potential Start Date: January 4, 2021 Contract End Date: May 7, 2021 Please forward your cover letter, resume and one reference letter indicating how your skills and qualifications meet each of the requirements of this position to Attention: Chris Robinson, OFAH Fish and Wildlife Conservation Programs Manager, and send your qualifications to [email protected]

A 2020 CHP supported Capital Improvement Grant project completed by the TAFIP - Temagami Area Fish Involvement Program.

Get helpful information from Conservation Officers who spend many hours patrolling rivers and tributaries throughout the Great Lakes region of Ontario monitoring fall fish migration angling activities. To learn more visit: www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-fishing-regulations-summary