Quinte Fishing

Hello Walleye Anglers,
Once again, I am seeking your help with our Volunteer Angler Diary Program (Walleye).

If you would like to participate this year, please respond to this email and let me know. For those of you that respond, I will send out a Diary package right away. If you know of an avid Walleye angler that may not have participated in past years, please pass along this email and encourage them to contact me.
In addition to Bay of Quinte anglers, I am encouraging anglers that fish for Walleye in eastern Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River to participate in this volunteer diary program.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

sonya.kranzl@ontario.ca

UPDATES FOR 2021:

Bay of Quinte and Walleye are a high priority and we are doing our best during these difficult times to complete the key surveys which are used to inform the status of Walleye;
Bay of Quinte index trawling: used to inform status of the fish community and as an indicator for Walleye young of the year (i.e. year class strength)
Bay of Quinte index gillnetting: used to inform status of the fish community as well as an indicator of the juvenile and adult Walleye population
Acoustic Telemetry: ongoing research to better understand Walleye spatial ecology in the Bay of Quinte / eastern Lake Ontario
Walleye Angler Diary Program: used to characterize the late summer/fall Walleye angler effort, catch and harvest
Environmental Variables e.g. temperature at spawning areas
For your interest, I have attached a “postcard” describing our work to track Walleye movement in the Bay of Quinte and eastern Lake Ontario using acoustic telemetry technology. This is a partnership project with Queen’s University Freshwater Fisheries Conservation Lab (Dr. Bruce Tufts Lab). Since 2017, we have tagged over 200 walleye. If you catch one of our acoustic tagged walleye, please consider releasing the fish and reporting back to us. Some tagged Walleye have orange pop-off data storage tags (pDST) attached to them which record variables such as depth (see photo attached). If you catch a Walleye with one of these pop-off tags, it should be removed by cutting the line holding it to fish. You should then contact the Queen's lab or myself to set up return. These tags are also designed to release from the fish after one year and float to the surface, so you may see a tag floating or washed up on shore. There is a $100 reward for returning a pDST tag.
Thank you,

Sonya Kranzl

A/Assessment Biologist
Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry
Lake Ontario Management Unit
Office: 613-476-8756
Cell: 613-242-0700
sonya.kranzl@ontario.ca

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I participated in this a few times a few years ago. If you're going to get out there a couple times or more this fall, you should sign up. Nothing serious, just fill out a log book.

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