The Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry will be conducting monitoring and collecting data on Lake Nipissing to help monitor the fish populations.
"The information collected during the project will help manage the whole lake ecosystem, as well as help, continue the recovery of the walleye population in Lake Nipissing," says a news release.
Over the course of two weeks, standardized nets will be set for 20 hours in randomly chosen locations on the lake up to the French River.
This is where the buoys come in - nets will be identified with orange and white buoys labelled ‘NDMNRF’ and boaters should avoid travelling between these buoys while testing is underway. Boaters shouldn’t move the buoys either – that’s an offence under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act.
In total 78 nets will be set and retrieved during the survey.
Fish will be sampled for length, weight, sex, maturity, and age. The data collected will be used to guide fisheries management on the lake.
