Please find some comments on…

Please find some comments on the Bait review

I am 0k with the proposed Bait Management Zones but there are problems for people that live on near the boundaries .I would like to be able to legally transport bait in both directions along the boundary between Bmz A and Bmz D to which ever Bmz I am going to fish in .To my knowledge there is no other east west route that paralels the boundary relatively close . My proposed solution to this problem is to have an overlapping boundary between A and D i.e. the Southern boundary of Bmz A is the southern right of way limit of highway 65,560, Sultan road and 101 and the Northern boundary of Bmz D is the north right of limit of highway 65, 560, Sultan Road and 101 making the travalled portion of highway 65 , 560 ,Sultan Road and 101 in both zones . Expanding this overlap to say 1 km would greatly help the people that live in the small communities of Elk Lake , Gowganda and Shining Tree etc by allowing them to store bait at their residences from the Bmz opposite to where they live

I have mixed feelings on banning bait in Natural Brook trout lakes . On 1 hand there is very few of them , most are in protected or access restricted areas and they provide limited opportunities .but they do provide some and any loss of an opportunity is going to put pressure someplace else . I really don't understand why you are restricting harvest of bait in these lakes . I would of thought you would be trying to promote harvest in these lakes in an attempt to reduce the bait population to help the Brook Trout out . I guess the other question is there anybody old enough left to know whether these Brook trout lakes are natural or naturalized .

I am disappointed with your decision to ban bait in parks .Many of these Waterway parks are only parts of lakes or rivers like Lady Evelyn lake , Long lake , Obabika lake and the Abitibi River . How can you ban bait in 1 part of a lake or river and not another ? How can you discriminate between a camp owner that lives in 1 part of a lake and not 1 in the other part ? In addition some of these areas are man made resouvoirs and not really pristine natural areas . Again like banning bait in Brook Trout lakes banning bait in Parks will concentrate fishing pressure someplace else . We should be doing actions that disperse fishing pressure instead of concentrating it .

There needs to be clarification whether personally harvested bait from Bmz D can be used in Lake Temiskaming . The same question exists for Bmz A .

Apparently Commercially Harvested bait from Lake Temiskaming can be used in the adjacent Bmz but there are currently no commercial permits issued . Is there an intention to issue these permits ?

Bait dealers should have the option to sell permitted bait from another Bmz . This would sure help dealers that live on or near the line .

I am agreeable to registering my minnow trap similar to the way I register my ice hut no fee no course .

[Original Comment ID: 209900]