Angling Best Practices
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Angling is a tradition and a responsibility
You can help ensure the quality of Ontario's fisheries and your angling experience for generations to come.
Angling Best Practices:
Respect Each Other
- Share the water with other users – anglers, boaters and swimmers.
- Racial discrimination has no place in Ontario.
Respect Shoreline Property Owners
- Always ask permission before entering or crossing private property.
- Respect the privacy of the on-shore public when fishing.
Minimize Your Impact on the Environment
- Don’t litter. Minimize pollution.
- Help prevent the spread of exotic plants and animals.
- Dispose of your bait and fish entrails properly.
- Know the catch and size limits for the water you are fishing.
- Limit your catch, don’t catch your limit.
- When practising catch and release, handle fish with care and release them as quickly as possible.
Understand and follow Ontario’s Fishing and Safe Boating (PDF, 4.4 mb) Regulations
Report resource abuse and violations to the TIPS-MNR Line 1-877-847-7667.
Report incidents of racism to Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Related Links
View the Ontario Human Rights Commission report : Fishing without Fear: Follow-up report on the Inquiry into Assaults on Asian Canadian Anglers
