Host Lawrence Gunther speaks with fishing legend, author and sport fishing hull of fame inductee Darryl Choronzey about the past and present state of Lake Ontario, it’s native fish species, the rise of pacific salmon domination
Since 2012 Blue Fish Canada is dedicated to the conservation, protection, and restoration of Canada’s freshwater and saltwater environments and their wild fish stocks. It aims to document and promote Canada’s fishing heritage and sustainable fishing practices, ensuring that future generations of Canadians have access to healthy freshwater and marine fisheries.
Blue Fish Canada, a registered charity dedicated to the future of fish and fishing, has program objectives that include:
Fish health may be the least understood and most difficult to assess research challenges. Assessing water quality is relatively simple in comparison, but water quality alone isn’t a measure of fish health. Time and resources are required to locate and capture fish in numbers that adequately represent the aquatic or marine ecosystem as a whole, not an easy task when fish move about and are largely invisible to the human eye.
Host Lawrence Gunther speaks with fishing legend, author and sport fishing hull of fame inductee Darryl Choronzey about the past and present state of Lake Ontario, it’s native fish species, the rise of pacific salmon domination
Scottie Martin and Lawrence discuss the role forward looking sonar played during the St. Claire River B.A.S.S. elite tournament, the choice to eat locally caught fish, knowing what you’re eating and what’s in it, where to source Tilapia, seafood fraud, and the use of Butterfish as a common substitute for Tuna in sushi restaurants.
Scottie Martin and I discuss catching and eating Bowfin, extreme weather impacts and the Pacific ocean garbage patch, angler encounters with Great Whites off the coast of New Brunswick