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Manitoba Water Stewardship advises that new conservation measures have been put in place to protect walleye populations in Lake Dauphin. 

 

This year, an additional two-week closure on all walleye fishing in two tributaries of Dauphin Lake, plus limits on other tributaries during spawning season, will help keep fish stocks healthy for future generations.

 

This temporary closure prohibits catching and retaining walleye on the Turtle and Valley rivers from April 20 to and including May 3.

 

To ensure the closure does not shift unsustainable fishing harvest onto other Dauphin Lake tributaries, anyone exercising an Aboriginal or treaty right to fish for food will be limited to a daily limit of six walleye caught by angling only (rod and reel) in total from all of the Wilson, Vermillion and Ochre rivers and Edwards and Mink creeks from April 20 to and including May 3.

 

These steps are in addition to existing measures such as reductions in the commercial harvest of walleye from Lake Dauphin, reductions of the daily catch limit of walleye for anglers, requiring all spawning-sized walleye to be released and closure of all commercial and recreational fishing during the spring spawning season.

 

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