Funding Fisheries Management

Fish and Wildlife Funding

Since 1996, Ontario has put all licence fees, royalties, and fines collected under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act into a Special Purpose Account to be used exclusively for fish and wildlife management.

In 2008-09, approximately $64 million, or 71%, of the overall program funding is planned to be sourced from the Fish and Wildlife Special Purpose Account. The remaining funding comes from other provincial sources.

MNR's Fish and Wildlife Funding

Funding Allocation Details

Fish and Wildlife

• policy, program, legislation and regulation development
• Outdoors Card production, licensing, hunting and fishing summary printing
• provincial angling and hunting surveys, wildlife draws
• coordinating implementation of Ontario's Biodiversity Strategy
• protecting vulnerable, threatened and endangered species
• minimizing spread of exotic species

Great Lakes Management

• fish stock assessment and harvest monitoring
• resource allocation
• Great Lakes sport and commercial fisheries enhancement
• cooperative programs with U.S. agencies

Fish Culture

• operation of 9 provincial hatcheries
• more than 8.2 million fish stocked annually (note: over 10 million fish stocked by MNR and partners)
• preserving wild gene pools
• fish health and nutrition

Field Operations

• local habitat and population management protection programs
• enhancing angling and hunting opportunities
• public information and customer service
• resource allocation
• community partnership and stewardship programs
• BearWise program

Enforcement

• district recreational hunting and fishing enforcement
• commercial fish and fur enforcement
• special investigations
• public information and customer service

Applied Research and Development / Science and Information

• fish and wildlife research and monitoring
• provincial fisheries and wildlife monitoring and assessment program
• information management and transfer
• operation of provincial fox and rabies control program
• rabies public information and customer service

 
Other

• student employment programs
• provincial partnerships
• information management