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You Haven’t Fished Until You’ve Fished in Canada

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Canada is one of the most beautiful places to vacation; from some of the most beautiful scenery in the world to a very abundant fish and wildlife country. The Canadians take pride in their land and they are very helpful to the tourist who come to fish and hunt. If you love the outdoors, you’ll love the wide variety of rivers and ponds, freshwater lakes, and saltwater streams that Canada has to offer. Canada is the place to visit.

Canada’s wide variety of Salmon is what makes fishing enjoyable. There are Chum, Coho, Sockeye and the Chinook salmon in their lakes and streams and because Canada is so far north the temperature in those lakes and streams are efficient enough to keep the salmon plentiful year round. If you are not familiar with salmon fishing you can always purchase guides that specialize in salmon fishing. Be sure to find the guides that are written especially for Canada. These guides can also introduce you to the fishing population along all three coasts of Canada. The Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans offer a variety of salt water fishing that includes shark and tuna.

Canada is divided up into two types of fishing groups. You have Salt Water Fishing and Lake Water Fishing. You can purchase gear for both types of fishing in merchant shops all over Canada. So if you are not quite prepared for all of these types of fishing that Canada offers you always find what you need when you get there.

You’ll also find that you would like to experience Ice Fishing. Ice fishing requires special gear and safety regulations and clothing. So be sure to check on what Ice Fishing is all about while you are there.

When you go to Canada to fish, pick up your fishing license and asked for the guides that can tell you what is required of you when you fish, what Canada’s regulations are, the most popular type of fishing for the time of year you are there and what you need to do that type of fishing with and a map to find it.

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More Risks for Polar Bears

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Polar bears in the ArcticThe US Fish and Wildlife Service have delayed listing the polar bear as an endangered species, allowing oil and natural gas drilling to begin in the shores off Alaska.

Despite legal efforts by Environmental groups 30 million acres of the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska have been auctioned to oil and gas companies for drilling leases.

Environmental groups, including the National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice, were unable to stop the auction in a federal court. Their claim shows drilling will endanger polar bears, bowhead whales, Pacific walrus, ribbon seals, threatened spectacled eiders, and other marine birds and fish.

Record losses of sea ice have occurred and two-thirds of polar bear populations could be gone by 2050 if global climate change continues. Oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea will significantly impact shrinking habitat for polar bears.

Over the next five years, the US government has scheduled 8 additional lease sales in the Arctic Ocean, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

The US Department of the Interior received 667 bids for the 5,355 blocks of land up for lease sale in the Chukchi Sea Feb 6, 2008. Shell bid $105.3 million for a single exploration block, the most ever offered for a single tract in a US federal offshore lease sale.

View February 4, 2008 PlanetArk article
View January 31, 2008 National Audubon Society press release
View January 7, 2008 Earthjustice article
View February 14, 2008 Reuters article
Visit National Audubon Society

Source: National Audubon Society
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