Serge Lariviere serves as director general of the Cree Hunters and Trappers Income Security Board in Quebec and operates a fur trapping and wildlife website.
In the Fur Market Report published in The Trapper Magazine, Lariviere summarized the March 19-21 North Bay, Ontario, auction as “the very best sale we have seen in a long time!”
Fur Harvesters Auction gives hope to some trappers Read More »
A pair of public health agencies more than 100 miles apart had to issue public health warnings after polluted water entered the Lake Erie watershed in June.
On June 6, the Toledo/Lucas County Health Department issued a public health advisory for Swan Creek and its tributaries from Eastgate to the Maumee River due to elevated levels of E. coli. The known source is untreated human sewage coming from a leaking sewer line that caused a large sinkhole to form and crush the large pipe when it expanded and collapsed.
If the past few years are any indication, anglers eager to fill their freezers with yellow perch need to be ready to start fishing Lake Erie as soon as the calendar page turns to July.
High metabolism rates that are produced with warm lake water temperatures have the perch looking to consume as much prey as their stomachs can fit just to break even with calories burned versus consumed.
Ohio’s Lake Erie yellow perch turn on in hot July Read More »
According to Captain Scott Heston, who has fished Sandusky Bay for more than 45 years, “The heat of the summer, July and August, is the best time of the year to catch catfish.”
A catfish-only guide, he has operated his charter since 2016 from Hidden Hideaway Campground & Marina, formerly called Hank’s on the Bay near Port Clinton, Ohio. In my trips with him during April and May the past several years, a higher percentage of bigger catfish make up the catches. But for sheer action, the numbers of fish caught in June is tough to beat and the bite remains furious through August.
It’s tough to beat Ohio’s Sandusky Bay for summer catfish Read More »
In 1895, Ohio State University (OSU) professor David S. Kellicott, who had been studying Lake Erie in the late 1800s, recommended that the university establish a field station to study biology and especially the important fishing industry.
Following his advice, OSU spent $350 to add a second story to the state fish hatchery in Sandusky that year and offered the first classes of the “Lake Laboratory” in 1900.
Ohio State University’s Stone Lab will mark its 100th year this fall Read More »
At a May event, the Lake Erie Waterkeepers hosted a conference called, “Assessing Manure in Williams (Ohio) and Steuben (Indiana) Counties in the Lake Erie Watershed.”
Several presenters from Iowa to Mayland spoke of health and environmental enforcement, or lack of it, at Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in their states. Hosted by the Bryan Eagles in Ohio’s Williams County, several residents and those from adjacent Steuben County in Indiana listened as some testified about the horror they are going through with rapidly proliferating facilities surrounding their communities.
Ohio conference shines spotlight on big factory farms’ impact on water quality Read More »
Multiple reports indicate a massive fish kill that recently occurred in Middle Harbor between East Harbor and West Harbor this spring.
A circulating photo and phone calls to Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists confirmed that the fish in question were primarily carp and suckers. The smell of rotting fish carcasses caught the attention of many who found themselves downwind of them while visiting East Harbor State Park ahead of and during Memorial Day weekend.
Massive fish kill reported at Ohio’s Middle Harbor Read More »
In Ohio, sites deemed necessary for management culls of double-crested cormorants in the past have included West Sister and Green islands in Lake Erie, Turning Point Island in Sandusky Bay, the Portage Lakes in northeast Ohio, Grand Lake, and the St. Marys State Fish Hatchery.
On the Lake Erie islands, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-issued public resources depredation order requires birds to be culled prior to their nesting season.
Culling of cormorants continues in Ohio Read More »
According to the International Joint Commission, Lake Erie water is at its lowest level since 2014.
Without the first respectable period of ice cover in three years, which at times covered 90% of the lake, it could have been worse as evaporation may have taken a bigger toll in the form of lake effect snow. It was clear when the boating season started in March that Lake Erie’s water level was down when the Ohio ramps to the lake looked longer. River and harbor entrances in some locations that allowed boating outside the dredged channels now contain sediment deposits too shallow to get through.
Lake Erie water levels require boaters’ attention in Ohio Read More »
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