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RE -- ---- Vol. 126 No. 47 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1992 Copy 65¢ ¢1¢+4¢ GSD -40 Pages Decision expected by December on fate of ice fishing on Scugog By Kelly Lown > Port Perry Star Five options to help reduce the walleye harvest taken from Lake Scugog were presented to area anglers on October 7. More than 150 people turned out at the Latcham Centre to hear the potential options the Ministry of Natural Resources had for the winter fishery. Due to results of arecent creel performed on Lake Scugog the ministry must come up with a solution or combinations of ide- as to lower the harvest of wall- eye taken from the lake. "Our goal is to lower the har- vest by 15 per cent," said Lois Deacon, Kawartha Lake As- sessment Biologist. The Ministry offered six pos- sible solutions to control the harvest. The first is to reduce the catch and possession limits year round. The advantages of this solution are it does not reduce angler opportunities and it would reduce the winter wall- eye harvest by approximately 11 per cent. Open water harvest would be reduced by 14 per cent and the annual harvest by nine percent. This solution may not be as ef- fective because it is difficult to enforce and anglers may take their catch to shore and contin- ue fishing. The second solution is to al- low only one line per fisherman. This is not very effective as the second line an angler is tending is not as efficient. Although this solution would reduce angler ef- fort by 50 per cent it would only reduce the harvest by less than 10 percent. The third solution may be to implement slot size or some oth- er type of size limit. This meth- od would not reduce angling op- portunities but has some disadvantages. The method only works if the released fish survive and it is difficult to choose a slot size because of the narrow size distribution of wall- eye in Lake Scugog. With this method few legal fish could be kept because a minimum size limit would be necessary to allow fish to reach spawning age. Because Lake Scugog has a high level of natu- ral reproduction, minimum size limits could result in stunting and few fish reaching legal size. This is also a difficult law to en- force with such a large angler population. The fourth solution is to shorten the winter fishing sea- son to January 1 to February 28, thus cutting out December and March. This is the personal fa- vorite of Mrs. Deacon. JULIA DEMPSEY/ PORT PERRY STAR The 1st Port Perry Scouts and Beavers are holding their an- nual Apple Day on Saturday, Oct. 17. The boys will be selling apples around Port Perry as part of their biggest fundraising project of the year. Helping to promote the event are (from left) Billy Britt, Jamie McQuaid, and Kenny Britt. "December is the hot period and March has high catch rates, making it an effective way to control the harvest," she said. "The large female fish are usually caught in the first two weeks of March," she added. By cutting back the season, the winter effort would be re- duced by 20 per cent, resulting in 30 per cent harvest saved. This totals approximately 12 per centofthe annual harvest. The disadvantages are that it reduces angler opportunity and may not be as effective as pre- dicted because effort and har- vest may be concentrated in the shorter season. The popular solution for lake- front homeowners is to ban ice huts from the lake. Several landowners "were present at the meeting to voice their disapproval of the debris left on the ice after the fishing season. Mrs. Deacon said the hut Turnto Page 10 JULIA DEMPSEY/ PORT PERRY STAR Margaret Steer and her biological mother Norma Waite met each other for the first time on Saturday, Oct. 3. Margaret, born Cindy Lee Glover on September 5, 1957, was adopted at birth by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steer of Scugog Township. See story on Page 12. Will hold second meeting Street renamings delayed By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star Scugog Council has put off making a decision on renaming some streets in the township. A decision was to be reached on October 5, but opposition by a resident on one of the streets forced council to delay the deci- sion. The township is seeking to change Goreski Sideroad to Bryant Sideroad, Railway Bed to Old Rail Lane, Caesar Lane to Washago Bay Lane, and Emerson Beach Lane to Emer- son Lane. A public hearing was held on September 28, but confusion prompted council to delay the decision. When the township had onigi- nally announced itsintention to change the name of Caesar [Lane, Allan Edwards, a Caesar [Lane resident, opposed the change citing a number of rea- sons including the costs of the procedure and public meeting. Upon learning of this opposi- tion, residents who were seek- ing the name change, decided to back off, arguing the costs were unnecessary. But after learning the public meeting was to gu ahead as planned, they decided to forge ahead with their opposition. Unaware of this reversal, Mr. Edwards did not attend the pub- lic meeting, believing the 1ssue was resolved. But he 1s now demanding an- other public meeting arguing he public meeting was held and Mr. Edwards had the opportu- Turnto Page 13 was not given fair notice of the meeting. Although council says the Fire causes extensive damage to buildings A fire near the Uxbridge/Scugog town border Saturday night resulted in more than $200,000 damage and destroyed two buildings. According to Uxbridge Deputy Fire Chief Tony Peck, the de- partment was called to a barn fire at a farm owned by Floyd Evanson Lot 4, Concession 7 in Scugog at 8:56 p.m. Three units responded from the Uxbridge department. A short time later Scugog's Hall #1 was called in for water and manpower. But the firefighters stood helpless as the barn, which con- tained.approximately 5,600 round and square bales, burned out of control. A short time later, the fire spread to an adjacent drive shed which was approximately 30 feet away. Due to the fuel load in the barn, the heat was very intense, said Deputy Chief Peck. He said the heat could be felt more than 200 feet away and water was needed to cool the fire vehi- clesin the area. Although the two buildings were destroyed, there was very little loss of livestock. The farm owner was able to rescue all of his calves from the barn and only 12 chickens perished in the re. A combine, corn planter and scuffler were also destroyed in the blaze. Deputy Chief Peck told the Port Perry Star that there was not much the firefighters could do to control the blaze. ~ "You feel completely helpless," he said of the fire that burned intensely fuelled by strong winds and a large fuel load in the two buildings. The Ontario Fire Marshal's Office has placed the damage at approximately $230,000 to $250,000. The cause of the blaze is believed to be electrical. ee I --_----_--------r "- i GAN J) 57