Heading out fishing? We could use your help!
Gone fishing recently? Fill out our fish monitoring forms! By reporting on fish characteristics like vitality, flavour, and overall health, you can help us keep tabs on our Districts’ fish populations.
This program is a part of our Askîy Initiative, our community-based environmental monitoring project. By submitting reports, you’ll provide us with the data we need to detect fish health and population changes in Alberta. Citizens have submitted over 1,400 forms to date, alerting us to concerns about declining fish populations, poor fish health, and changes in fish flavour.
Fill out any (or all!) of our fishing forms between June 1 and August 31 to enter for a chance to win a $250 Cabela’s gift card. We’ll hold one gift card draw for each of the three forms: fishing trip, fish measurement & health, and palatability. Additionally, all Citizens who participate will receive a small token of our appreciation.Help us protect Alberta’s fish and their habitat by submitting your fish monitoring forms today.
Project Highlights
Since we launched the Fish Health Community Monitor project in 2021, our Askîy Guardians have submitted fish health reports from 120 unique waterbodies. These are just a few of the things we have learned:
Askîy Guardians visted these waterbodies the most:
- Lesser Slave Lake
- La La Biche
- Pigeon Lake
Askîy Guardians had the most satisfying fishing trips at these waterbodies:
- Floatingstone Lake
- Pigeon Lake
- Isle Lake
Askîy Guardians gave these waterbodies the highest fish health ratings:
- Baptiste Lake
- Lac La Biche
- Shiningbank Lake