Enhanced Public Involvement in Fisheries Management

To further encourage public involvement, the MNR has created 3 pilot fisheries management zone councils. The pilot councils are working in the following fisheries management zones (FMZ):

• FMZ 6 (Thunder Bay)
• FMZ 10 (Sault St. Marie) and
• FMZ 17 (Peterborough and the Kawartha lakes).

These councils will provide a broad range of participants with the chance to help MNR develop management strategies for the zones. The MNR wants strategies that will provide for sustainable use of our fisheries for future generations.

The councils will: 

• identify issues that are key to resource sustainability
• set objectives for the fisheries, and,
• provide advice on how to achieve these objectives.

MNR will evaluate these pilot councils, and based on the experience of the pilots, create councils across the province.