In Quebec, the provincial government is responsible for managing freshwater and migrating fish. The federal government is responsible for marine fish that can be found in the river and sometimes in the Saguenay fjord.
With regard to population management, we know that in our lakes there are many different populations of fish. This makes management easier because we can rather precisely establish population levels. This allows us to implement management measures to help the levels remain stable or even increase. Those are the advantages of managing lake fish populations.
The Quebec Ministry of Forests, Wildlife, and Parks implements precise management plans for certain species. Therefore, there is a specific management plan for salmon. There is also a specific management plan for the lake trout, and for the walleye.
We concentrate on a species, we determine its population level throughout the province and implement management measures to keep these levels stable, and in certain cases to increase them.
In Quebec, we closely and precisely manage our populations.