The past, present and future of a changing Lake Ontario | |
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Since the deep past, the climate of the Lake Ontario region has noticeably shifted at least several times. Such shifts presented both challenges and opportunities for different human societies. The various Indigenous groups that occupied the Lake Ontario basin, and their resource and food acquisition strategies, needed to be attuned to climatic realities. For those groups, and the Euro-Americans who later arrived, an especially frigid winter or a particularly dry summer could determine if a community starved. Yet, as I noted earlier in this book, seasonal unpredictability was likely the biggest obstacle introduced by the climatic downturn of the Little Ice Age, at least in the Lake Ontario region. |
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By limiting when and where certain human activities were possible, climate and environmental factors helped direct the course of empires in North America, both Indigenous and Euro-American. During conflicts that involved Lake Ontario, such as the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution or the War of 1812, big weather events or the timing of the spring ice break-up could decide the outcome of a military campaign or handicap a lake fleet. The harsher conditions of the Little Ice Age encouraged the fur trade, but for a time dissuaded Europeans from migrating to northern North America on a larger scale; milder weather in the 19th century went hand in glove with the expansion of permanent colonization efforts. Those living in these settlements still remained vulnerable to the weather and needed to adapt their subsistence strategies to the climate they encountered in the Lake Ontario watershed. Such adaptations had social, political, and economic ramifications: a society based on trading furs, which requires constant mobility, organizes itself quite differently than one reliant on agriculture and grain, which requires a sedentary population. |
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Sooke, Ucluelet net bragging rights as Canada's top fishing spots |
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Credit: Derek Ford |
Sooke and Ucluelet have reeled in significant bragging rights as one of the world’s top fishing destinations.
FishingBooker.com recently unveiled its Top Fishing Towns Outside the U.S. rankings list and the two Island hotspots landed in the top ten worldwide while claiming first and second place, respectively, in Canada. |
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The website touts itself as the world’s largest platform for booking fishing trips and explained that its rankings are based on internal data from over 40,000 trips, reviews, and reports from the past year. |
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Last edited: Roberts River
12/13/2024 |
from: {59.8, -97.5} |
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Last edited: Lake Superior
12/17/2024 |
from: {48.8, -86.4} |
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·DNA from worrisome invasive carp detected in Central Kentucky lake. No fish found yet.
kentucky 12/3/2024 |
Genetic material from a worrisome invasive fish species has been detected in a lake in Central Kentucky, but officials stress that doesn’t mean live fish have made it into the lake. Environmental DNA from bighead carp and silver carp was detected in six of 330 water samples from Taylorsville Lake taken October 21 and 22, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources announced Tuesday. Link... |
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·Did a sand eel eat its way out of a shark?
bnd 12/3/2024 |
If it’s possible for one fish to eat its way out of another fish, the uncomfortable proof got caught off New Jersey. A photo of the fish, or rather fishes, was shared Nov. 29 on Facebook by LBI Fishing Charters, which noted: “Only thing that comes to mind is wtf! This is how we caught it.” Link... |
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·Great Lake Musky Abound In Upper, Lower Niagara River
post-journal 12/12/2024 |
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Allan Water [50.3, -90.2] |
Brightsand River [49.5, -90.4] |
Lake St. Peter [51.7, -97.3] |
Beattie Lake [44.8, -81.3] |
Woodrow Lake [45.5, -79.2] |
McGregor River [54.0, -120.2] |
Pakashkan Lake [49.4, -90.3] |
Little Metionga Lake [49.7, -90.5] |
Batchawana River [47.0, -84.5] |
White Partridge Lake [45.8, -78.1] |
Oktwanch River [49.9, -126.2] |
Crawford River [48.2, -82.0] |
Kawagama Lake [45.3, -78.8] |
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