Outdoors Ontario

I just had a thought…..lol; thinking outside the box again, forgive me. Let’s look at the recent over inflated price of fuel in Ontario. Ok, the price of 1 litre of gas was $1.03 a day ago, today $1.09. We all know that when a holiday weekend approaches gas takes a jump up to $0.12 cents a litre, and most of the time is not a reflection of world prices, supply & demand or any other factual excuse. Who pays it every day; we do. Where does it go?……I’m not sure; waiting lines still at hospitals, crumbling infrastructure, cuts to transfer payments to municipalities, Ok to my point; ok let’s take $.01 cent from every over inflated litre of gas sold in Ontario………now let’s take that $.01 cent from the Provincial windfall collected daily. Now let’s just collect 1 years worth and put it into an account. What is your estimate of how much money would be sitting in that account? I’m fairly confident it would scare the crap out of all of us. Now imagine if that money was utilized to manage our Natural Resources…………It’s all about priorities………I’m just not sure what those pritorities are……are you?

This is a comical recollection regarding slot sizes. Ok, I’ve gone out and done it this time, I bought a ($3500) boat. Oh yeh I bought a motor ($1500) …and trailer ($1000) now for plates ($75) insurance ($250) , tackle, rods, fishfinder, net, oars, safety gear, floater jackets, fishing licence, cooler, gas for truck, docking fees, GPS, add another ($2500)You see where I’m going with this..well you will in a minute. I finally arrive at my destination, been waiting for weeks, launch the boat, go to a nice rock face and start trolling out from shore…….15 minutes first Lake Trout, perfect! Well wait a minute..it’s in the “Slot Size” can’t keep him, oh well maybe the next one…..back he goes. Ok I’m going to keep this brief, this goes on all day long, we catch measure and return to the lake over 15 Lake Trout. Do you think the Ministry knows that 99.9 % of all the fish in the Lake are within the slot size? Of course they do, will the slot size go up next year……of course it will…….does anyone keep fish in the slot size?……of course some people do……..do the majority of fish get taken through the ice when the Ministry isn’t going to be around checking……of course……Why when anglers contribute so much to the economy and to the resource will government not properly fund the Ministry Of Natural Resources, so that our Lakes and Rivers and our Natural Resources in general be managed properly. Come on, give me a break, I just contributed a lot of money to ensure, government got taxes and licencing, people were employed to manufacture what I bought………….this story has been witten a thousand times……when will government wake up……….probably after its too late, and everyone stops enjoying these sports, because there are no fish and even if you were lucky enough to catch one, you wouldn’t be allowed to keep it. Wake up government!