Current Status
• Increasing harvest, few older and young fish.
• Mild winters 1998 to 2000 reduced winter harvest.
• More harvest beyond protected areas, fish mostly wild and      
   from refuge area.
Future
• Continue monitoring.
• Assess effects of stocking
  cessation and movements to GB.
• Stock Five Mile Bay & adjacent GB.
• Assess angler harvest in 2002.
• Harvest reduced in a wider area, but pressure to liberalize
  regs. in Parry Sound.
• Concerns with lake trout in southern Georgian Bay could be addressed by bag limit reduction

• Starting to get pressure to liberalize regulations and fishery improves.

• Cessation of stocking is the biggest change, need to proceed carefully.

•Are stocking 5,000 lake trout into Five Mile Bay annually