Not Just Fishing

11/28/2025

🎉 MUNICIPALITY #33 - POWASSAN 🎉
For decades, herbicide spraying in Ontario’s forests has been so hidden that most people still don't know it exists. Some think we’re talking about chemtrails (we’re not - please redirect to the other Facebook groups 😅).

But people are waking up! The billboard Campaign works, the Protests, the Emails, and now municipalities across Ontario are standing with northern communities - Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike - hunters, anglers, foragers, families, and everyone who’s been fighting this chemical circus for 40 years.

Let’s keep it going! THANK YOU POWASSAN! 💚🐝🦊🐸🫎🦌🦋🐟

👉 stopthespraycanada.ca/moonbeam

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09/22/2025

Muskie in Lake Simcoe?

Muskie once flourished in Lake Simcoe, underpinning a thriving 19th-century commercial fishery until overharvest, habitat degradation and ecological shifts drove them to local extirpation by the 1930s.

In recognition of their importance, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry joined forces with Muskies Canada Inc., Fleming College and regional angling clubs in 2005 to re-establish muskie in Simcoe.

Since then, more than 15,600 fall-fingerling Georgian Bay strain muskies have been carefully stocked into prime spawning bays and river mouths, while parallel habitat-restoration projects have revived marshy nursery grounds along the Holland River and Cooks Bay.

Early monitoring data reveal encouraging survival and growth rates, and as these protected juveniles mature, biologists are increasingly confident that a self-sustaining Muskie population will once again roam the waters of Lake Simcoe.

07/31/2025

Many moth species, like this Luna Moth at Halfway Lake Provincial Park, do not have working mouth parts and never eat during their adult life. Instead, they focus on reproducing during their 1-week lifespan.

Image: A Luna Moth, a large pale green moth with big wings that have trailing "tails", small eye spots, and has feathery antenna, rests on a brown park building.

07/31/2025

🌊 Even though we are many kilometres away from the closest Great Lake, we have many great lakes of our own! But all great lakes face a threat, the threat of aquatic invasive species!

🐟 Lucky for us, we will be having a special guest demonstration on how to win the fight against aquatic invasive species. On Monday July 28, from 9 AM to 11 AM guests from Ozero Solutions will using their mobile wash station to show us the importance of keeping our waterways healthy by cleaning, draining, and drying our watercraft!

🛶 Come out with your boats, canoes, or just yourself to learn about how to win the fight against Aquatic Invasive Species!



[Image: A small boat equipped with fishing rods is moored in a lake, visible from a grassy shore with steps leading to the water.]

07/31/2025

If you see a waterbomber approaching, move out of their way to shore!

Doing so allows them to scoop water and continue to protect Ontario against our ongoing wildland fires.

Learn more: ontario.ca/Waterbombers

Ontario Forest Fires

07/31/2025

For the hunters.

𝐘𝐮𝐤𝐨𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐭 — 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭
𝐺𝑎𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑎, 𝐶𝐵𝐶 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠
𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

A Yukon judge has found an outfitter not guilty of wasting big game meat, because he ate a portion of the meat.

Aaron Florian, a hunting guide and the owner of Yukon Stone Outfitters, was charged with wasting big game meat in 2022 under the Wildlife Act. Judge Kathleen Caldwell issued her decision in Yukon territorial court in Whitehorse on July 21.

Conservation officers seized more than 500 pounds of moose meat from Florian's refrigerated trailer in October 2022, after a guided hunt along the South Canol.

Conservation officers said the meat inside the trailer was slimy and smelled sour. Expert testimony from a veterinarian also said the meat was spoiled.

The trailer was malfunctioning and the meat didn't freeze thoroughly, Florian testified. He found out later that the trailer, called a re**er, had been wired incorrectly and was defective when he bought it for that season. It has since been fixed.

Florian testified he felt bad about the meat's condition and he would have kept it for personal use — instead of donating it — if conservation officers hadn't seized it. He said a vinegar bath and trimming would deal with the slime.

After obtaining a court order, some of the seized meat had been returned to Florian. He testified that he made a number of dishes for himself and friends, including a pot roast, sausages and carpaccio. Florian and a friend both testified that the meat tasted fine and didn't make anyone sick.

In her decision, Caldwell said there's "surprisingly little legal precedent or guidance" to define meat spoilage in the Wildlife Act.

"Mr. Florian claims that his intention is to consume the remaining meat if it is returned to him," Caldwell said in her decision. "Consumed meat is not wasted meat."

Caldwell said her decision doesn't negate expert testimony which called the meat spoiled, but suggested that spoilage is subjective.

"It is clear that the meat was not in the condition to be sold in any of Whitehorse's major grocery store chains," Caldwell said.

Florian is still facing an additional charge of wasting meat in a similar time frame. That charge will go to trial on Sept. 8.

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𝘿𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡/𝙉𝘿𝙋 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝘾-𝟏𝟖 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧, 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚, 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝒂𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆, 𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝑿 𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔.
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