Annual fisheries assessment for Lake Nipissing taking place

For an 18th year the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry conducts the assessment in partnership with Nipissing First Nation and Dokis First Nation.

Data collected from this project and other research provides information to guide walleye management on the lake.

Officials say fish will be biologically sampled for length, weight, gender, maturity and age.   They also say the walleye population in the lake is in serious decline with the current population dominated by young fish.

They point out few fisheries have been studied as long or as intensively as Lake Nipissing’s walleye fishery.