FISHERIES SECTION 

 QAME FISH AND HATCHERIES SUB-SECTION 



Publio Interest In sport fishing in Ontario oontinued to inorease in I960* 

 Distriot reports from thro\ighout the Province indioated a general inorease in the 

 numher of anglers and in the result! rig fishing pressiire in most areas* 



Although the total numher of resident anglers is not knoim (resident 

 angling licenses are not required in Ontario , exoept in Provincial Parks) it is 

 estimated that some I^T^O^OOO anglers fished in the Provinoe in I96O* This figure is 

 based on the result obtained from a household survey conducted for the Department in 

 1959> which revealed that more than 1,2309000 residents fished in the Province in that 

 year* It is also based on the current increase in the ntmber of anglers reported from 

 field observations and on the increased sale of non-resident and resident Provincial 

 Park fishing licenses during the current year* 



This year a record total of 416,755 non-resident and resident Provincial 

 Park fishing licenses were sold in the Province for a gross revenue of $2,435f6l1*47* 

 The largest inorease in sales was for non-resident licenses which rose from 389,811 

 in 1959 to 396,213 in I96O, an inorease of 6,402 licenses* Complete details of all 

 fishing license sales for i960 together with the comparable annual records for the 

 previo\is three years are given in Table 1 * 



Much of the increased interest in the sport fishery in Ontario is attributed 

 largely to our growing population, to the current trend for greater participation in 

 outdoor recreation, euid to the improved facilities and access which have been made 

 available in the Provinoe in recent years* In southern Ontario fishing pressure on 

 most of the public waters is increasing steadily* This trend is illustrated in the 

 following Table 2* which describes the results of an aerial survey study which was 

 conducted on a number of waters in the Lake Simooe Distriot during the period 1957 

 to i960* 



In northern Ontario increased fishing pressure is also evident* However, 

 in this area much of the increased activity is more widely distributed* The opening 

 of extensive new fishing areas resialting from the construction of new and iorproved 

 highways and access roads has attracted many anglers to more of the remote aresus* 



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