Illegal to shore fish in Toronto Harbour !!

[OldTimer]

Have sent emails to Toronto councillors:

Gary Crawford
Michael Thompson
and
Adam Vaughan

Who all sit on the HarbourFront Centre Board of Directors.

To review the issue - and perhaps help - if they support ease of access to fishing opportunities.

Regards,

OldTimer

[OldTimer]

Article in todays Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1151...waterfront

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More internet ink from today:

http://toronto.openfile.ca/blog/curator-...io-edition

[David Chong]

Cool niche site! I know that many people saw the article in the Toronto Star and the reporter Emily Jackson is already working on a follow up. I think that by raising awareness of this issue we should be able to get it resolve shortly.

Rather then writing everything again, if anyone is interested you can go to http://www.nationalprostaff.com join for free if you wish and see my reports in regards to this issue. If you decide to follow me there you'll get notifications when I up-date on this matter.

Spoke to Wil Wegman from the MNR today and he is in the process of setting up a meeting with the parties involved to rectify this situation.

I look forward to sharing with the members of this site.

Cheers,
Dave Chong

[MikeH]

Glad to have someone involved who can bring a bit of the media spotlight to the issue!

[David Chong]

I hope to be able to help this along! Having grown up in Toronto, these areas are part of my fishing roots and I feel strongly about others being deprived of these privileges. If my profile in the fishing industry helps that would be great! BTW I like your blogs!

[OldTimer]

Yet more internet ink:

http://torontoist.com/2012/03/toronto-sh...town-spot/

[MikeH]

TPA has issued their pro-fishing statement and announced a fishing derby for this summer.

http://www.torontoport.com/About-TPA/Med...Fishi.aspx

[MikeH]

Ontario Place back open for fishing until construction starts.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1152...place?bn=1

[OldTimer]

What is the current status of HarbourFront Centre's position on this issue?

Are they still planning on posting/enforcing "No Fishing" on 100% of their frontage?

[MikeH]

(03-28-2012 06:27 AM)OldTimer Wrote:  What is the current status of HarbourFront Centre's position on this issue?
Are they still planning on posting/enforcing "No Fishing" on 100% of their frontage?

It looks like they are being pulled into the talks and the general consensus is that they should designate part of their waterfront property as fishing permitted. They have plenty of dead end slips such as the arms in front of the marine unit, or the back of Portland St slip.

Portland St slip would be great as that is where the creek from Fort York enters the harbour, so there's always lots of fish action around there. Ontario Place have already relented, until such time as there is new construction / demolition which would require no access at all.