Recreational Fishery - Harvest/Effort
South Western Georgian Bay
The harvest of fish in this region has been relatively steady over the past 10 years.  Harvest is up from the late 1980’s and 1999 saw a huge increase in fish harvested.  Recreational effort has shown a similar pattern, increasing in the early 1990’s and leveling off over the past 10 years, with an increase in 1999.  The majority of this effort and harvest is targeted at Chinook salmon, in the order of 65 to 90% throughout the time series shown.