By Shane Clausing

Fish consultations

Alberta Fish and Gaming Association urging anglers to attend province-wide consultations

Jan 8, 2020 | 12:04 PM

The Alberta Fish and Game Association is urging all Anglers to attend a series of upcoming public engagement sessions in eleven communities throughout the province, and beginning in Grande Prairie on Monday, January 13.

The Alberta government says that they want the public’s perspectives about fisheries and their management, with a particular focus on increasing recreational fishing opportunities across the province.

“The biggest challenge right now is the opportunity to angle. It appears that over the last number of years, for example just keeping a fish is not as easy to do as it has been in the past,” said Darryl Smith, the Provincial Fish Chair for the Alberta Fish and Game Association.

Smith also went onto say that sessions like this haven’t been common for a long time, and they have decreased significantly over the last decade.

Expected to attend the sessions and meet with Anglers are fisheries managers, potentially government officials, and Alberta environment and parks to discuss solutions to problems that they face.

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Anglers around the province say they are happy with the opportunity to voice their concerns. The Alberta Fish and Gaming Association has been vocal that consultations and involvement of anglers in the decision-making process is critical to address issues impacting fisheries and recreational angling in Alberta.

Smith says that anglers want change to be made, and most can agree on what they want changed.

“I think most anglers would hope that there would be a greater opportunity to at least harvest one fish, whether it’s a Walleye or Pike fish, from some of our area lakes,” said Smith. “I think the other thing that they would like to see is a lot more emphasis on habitat and land use planning to make sure our lakes and rivers are kept in environmentally stable states.”

Smith noted that he’s hoping that a lot of Anglers turn up to the consultations across the province since it’s been so long since there have been events like this.

He’s hoping that the more anglers that show up, the more beneficial it’ll be.

The consultation is taking place in Grande Prairie at the Teresa Sargent Hall in the Montrose Cultural Centre on January 13 from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.