Help Improve Lake Ontario

[NADO]

Hey guys I got an email from the spoon pullers forum and I thought it would be beneficial to pass the email onto the forum to get more votes. If the organization mentioned in the email receives the funding they are aiming for it will provide great benefits to both trib fisherman and deep water fisherman.

Much thanks to Aviva Insurance for investing money into social responsibilty initiatives like this.

Email Below**

Hello Fellow Spoonpullers

For those of you who frequent Spoonpullers during the fishing year on Lake Ontario and enjoy our fishery...I have a small request.
The guys from the Ringwood Hatchery have secured a deal with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to keep the Ringwood Hatchery open and running and are looking for some assistance from those who reap the benefits of their hard work.
There is a fundraising contest being put on by Aviva Insurance that will award funds to projects and Ringwood Fish Culture Station is looking for help to secure a win.

To help all you have to do is vote your support for the initiative. You can vote 15 times for each email address you have.

Tell your friends, family and co-workers. Every vote counts. All it takes is a couple of clicks on your computer to help make a difference.

Ringwood is currently in the second round of voting and could use the help from all the Spoonpullers out there.

Visit.. http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf11597 and cast your votes

Thank You for supporting Ringwood Fish Culture Stationand our beloved Lake Ontario Fishery

 

[NADO]

Come on guys everyone here who fishes lake ontario tribs should be voting. You get 15 votes but you can only use one per day so you have to start right away, the deadline is november 9 so start today!

 

[grubman]

Hey Nado

I never heard of this hatchery so I googled it, this is what I found.

By Michael Hayakawa|
Jan 28, 2011 - 3:24 PM

Ringwood fish hatchery closing

For close to 30 years, the Ringwood Fish Culture Station was the nerve centre for the chinook salmon stocking program in Ontario.
Since the Ministry of Natural Resources elected to stock chinook into Lake Ontario, all of the rearing was carried out at Ringwood’s 120-acre facility.
But that will cease after Sept. 28 as the ministry is decommissioning the Ringwood plant, on Hwy. 48 north of Stouffville Road.
The move surprised volunteers who work at the facility.
With Ringwood operating in the final year of a five-year agreement between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, the ministry announced it will move its chinook production operations to the Normandale Fish Culture Station located near Simcoe.
Kevin Loftus, manager of the ministry’s fish culture section for their fish and wildlife services branch in Peterborough, said the ministry can now resume responsibility for the culture of chinook salmon, a highly popular sports species.
During the five-year agreement, volunteer members of the Metro East Anglers Association did the work in Ringwood.
The Normandale facility is undergoing a major renovation.
A new sub station will be a brood stock facility. The main station, comprised of two major buildings, will rear atlantic salmon and brown trout in one slated to be finished by the summer of 2012 while a smaller facility to be completed by this fall will raise chinook salmon.
Ringwood’s final target production for chinook salmon this year is 540,000, fish.
“The ministry greatly appreciates the efforts of the OFAH and Metro East Anglers Association over these past few years in maintaining chinook salmon production at a time when we (the ministry) was unable to do so,” Mr. Loftus said.
While Ringwood’s primary function was to rear chinook salmon, it also produced rainbow trout and coho salmon on a smaller scale. That was not part of any official ministry stocking target, but was an internal Metro East Anglers Association target approved by the ministry, Mr. Loftus said.
Andy Rubaszek, Ringwood hatchery co-ordinator and Metro East Anglers Association vice-president, said they raise some 17,500 rainbow trout to be seeded into the Rouge River, and 75,000 cohos for Lake Ontario. Cohos will be discontinued after this year, he said.
With the Ringwood set to close its doors later this year, Mr. Rubaszek’s association is looking for another hatchery to continue its rainbow trout work.
“If we can’t find another hatchery there won’t be any more rainbows to raise,” he said.
As for the future of the Ringwood facility, Mr. Loftus said the ministry hasn’t made any decisions.
Mr. Rubaszek was saddened and surprised by the ministry’s decision.
“When we signed the agreement five years ago none of us thought about it,” he said.
“No one thought it would be the end. This surprised a lot of the group members.”
Mr. Rubaszek hopes something can happen before September to give the Ringwood facility a new lease on life.
“A lot can change between now and then,” he said.

Count me in, still hope to catch a bow some day. They were stocking them. Did I miss the reason why they are closing???? This is tragic for our sport.

Thanks for alerting us, yeah we need to support them!!!!!!!!!!
.

 

[Blair]

Hey Nado

I never heard of this hatchery so I googled it, this is what I found.

By Michael Hayakawa|
Jan 28, 2011 - 3:24 PM

Ringwood fish hatchery closing

For close to 30 years, the Ringwood Fish Culture Station was the nerve centre for the chinook salmon stocking program in Ontario.
Since the Ministry of Natural Resources elected to stock chinook into Lake Ontario, all of the rearing was carried out at Ringwood’s 120-acre facility.
But that will cease after Sept. 28 as the ministry is decommissioning the Ringwood plant, on Hwy. 48 north of Stouffville Road.
The move surprised volunteers who work at the facility.
With Ringwood operating in the final year of a five-year agreement between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, the ministry announced it will move its chinook production operations to the Normandale Fish Culture Station located near Simcoe.
Kevin Loftus, manager of the ministry’s fish culture section for their fish and wildlife services branch in Peterborough, said the ministry can now resume responsibility for the culture of chinook salmon, a highly popular sports species.
During the five-year agreement, volunteer members of the Metro East Anglers Association did the work in Ringwood.
The Normandale facility is undergoing a major renovation.
A new sub station will be a brood stock facility. The main station, comprised of two major buildings, will rear atlantic salmon and brown trout in one slated to be finished by the summer of 2012 while a smaller facility to be completed by this fall will raise chinook salmon.
Ringwood’s final target production for chinook salmon this year is 540,000, fish.
“The ministry greatly appreciates the efforts of the OFAH and Metro East Anglers Association over these past few years in maintaining chinook salmon production at a time when we (the ministry) was unable to do so,” Mr. Loftus said.
While Ringwood’s primary function was to rear chinook salmon, it also produced rainbow trout and coho salmon on a smaller scale. That was not part of any official ministry stocking target, but was an internal Metro East Anglers Association target approved by the ministry, Mr. Loftus said.
Andy Rubaszek, Ringwood hatchery co-ordinator and Metro East Anglers Association vice-president, said they raise some 17,500 rainbow trout to be seeded into the Rouge River, and 75,000 cohos for Lake Ontario. Cohos will be discontinued after this year, he said.
With the Ringwood set to close its doors later this year, Mr. Rubaszek’s association is looking for another hatchery to continue its rainbow trout work.
“If we can’t find another hatchery there won’t be any more rainbows to raise,” he said.
As for the future of the Ringwood facility, Mr. Loftus said the ministry hasn’t made any decisions.
Mr. Rubaszek was saddened and surprised by the ministry’s decision.
“When we signed the agreement five years ago none of us thought about it,” he said.
“No one thought it would be the end. This surprised a lot of the group members.”
Mr. Rubaszek hopes something can happen before September to give the Ringwood facility a new lease on life.
“A lot can change between now and then,” he said.

Count me in, still hope to catch a bow some day. They were stocking them. Did I miss the reason why they are closing???? This is tragic for our sport.

Thanks for alerting us, yeah we need to support them!!!!!!!!!!
.

Nice info!
Voted
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I would also recommend writing, email or calling both your Provincial and Federal MPP & MP’s

(Federally, because it looks like the Rouge may become a Federal Park!)

It really works!



Politicians are born to pander to Voters.

Make your voice heard.

Let them know your VOTE is DEPENDANT UPON IT.



Or



You could join the “Wall Street/Bay Street” Sit in movements (lol)

Do not worry about the lowest turn outs in voting history.

Wait and join unspecified activist moments that have no real clarity or point

(Not knocking the “original point of Inequities”. Just the misdirection of real “power” when it comes to skipping voting and then trying to get a point across with these sit ins)



FEDERAL MEMBERS of PARLIAMENT (MP) – CONTACT INFO

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PROVINCIAL MEMBERS of PARLIAMENT (MPP) – CONTAC T INFO

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Rouge River Park

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Report Calls for National Rouge Park

February 5, 2010 - The Rouge Park Alliance today received a consultant's report which recommends that transitioning the Park into Canada's first near urban national park is the best way to preserve and enhance this vitally important area.

"The founding partners have made incredible contributions in bringing Rouge Park to this stage. National park status will allow us to fully develop and reach the potential of these lands as North America's premier urban wilderness park," said Alan Wells, Chair of the Rouge Park Alliance.

The lands in Rouge Park are a nationally significant ecological area located in the heart of the GTA, making a national park the preferred option. Additionally, many of the GTA's 7 million residents are new Canadians whose first experience with a national park would be in Rouge Park.

The report also calls for the addition of nearly 5000 acres of federal lands in Markham to the Park, as an agricultural preserve, expanding the total Park area by 1/3 to 15,000 acres (nearly 6100 hectares). "This allows us to fulfill our vision of a park from Lake Ontario to the Oak Ridges Moraine," said Wells. "We will continue to protect natural areas while supporting agriculture, cultural heritage, and recreation."

Since its inception, the Park has grown considerably, and continues to evolve. While the goal and vision of the Park remain true today, the Rouge Park Alliance has reflected on its structure, funding and partnerships so that the Park can continue strongly into the future. The next step is for Alliance members to consider the recommendations in the report over the next 60 days.

Rouge Park is a remarkable environmental asset combining nature, trails and farms. But to fully realize the vision of the Park, the consultant feels change is required. Rouge Park needs new funding commitments and a new structure to give it stronger leadership. In the consultant's view, the best means of achieving this is to designate Rouge Park as a national park.

The Rouge Park Alliance is a voluntary partnership consisting of 12 organizations, including multi-levels of government and other Park stakeholders that oversee the implementation of Rouge Park Plans.

Rouge Park is Canada's premier urban wilderness park protecting two National Historic Sites, and the only working farms in Toronto. It is protected park land in the Rouge River, Petticoat Creek and Duffins Creek watersheds, in and near Toronto, Canada's largest city. The award-winning Park provides a reservoir of biodiversity in the Greenbelt and the only link to Lake Ontario in the Greenbelt in Toronto.



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/REPORTS:


Bring Back the Salmon
http://www.lakeontariofishingforum.com/8-AtlanticSalmonProgram.pdf


Fisheries Management
http://www.ofah.org/...life_Report.pdf

 

[grubman]

Nado

I've already added one vote for today.

This is such a great opportunity to improve our sport where we can make a difference.

Here is a very informative article about steelhead and the stocking program.

http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/trout/?ID=36&a=read

I hope more people will also vote.

 

[NADO]

We need more votes to make it to the semi finals, keep voting everyone. It also helps to post it on your facebook wall as well.

 

[fisher12]

I'm voting, how many votes are required to make it to the semi-finals?(I didn't read the entire site)

 

[NADO]

im not sure thats a good question, we definately need more votes though...

 

[fisher12]

Was this posted on any other forums, they'll probably get alot of votes if you post it on ofn and floatfishing.net

 

[float^drifter]

u got my vote , put it on more forums your get more votes for sure

 

[grubman]

I'm voting, how many votes are required to make it to the semi-finals?(I didn't read the entire site)

Not to be a pessimist but it is in 18th place. Raising Fish for Lake Ontario has 1407 votes and Harder for Carter has 4397 votes. I don't know if there is only one winner. But the chances that several thousand votes come within the week is unfortunately unlikely.

Here is link to standings.

http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/home/search/grid/cost:2/sortby:most-votes

 

[NADO]

There are multiple categories with winners so ya never know. Alot of the ideas in the lead look like they are part of the same category.

 

[grubman]

Come from behind win!!!!!! Keep them votes coming!!!!!

 

[grubman]

There's only 6 days left to vote for Ringwood Hatchery!!!!!!

 

[NADO]

darn I missed a day! This was from spoonpullers.com but if you guys are members on other forums then definately post the link and a brief description there.

 

[grubman]

Only 4 days left to vote. I voted at 11:45pm and 12:30am. We can't afford to have one less hatchery.

 

[grubman]

Dam the days went by fast.

 

[grubman]

My final vote went in at 12:03am. You still have until 12pm today. Thanks all who participated.

 

[grubman]

Just a reminder, you have till noon to vote.

 

[NADO]

Just a reminder, you have till noon to vote.

darn, missed my last vote. Oh well I still got 12 votes in.