Our Insights

Everyone in the province seems to be able to agree that Alberta has many challenges as they relate to quality fishing within the province.

In conversations with Environment Alberta public servants (water resources) the topic of water quality being quite concerning on the Medicine River (tributary of the Red Deer River) talk of other streams and rivers that are even in worse shape than the Medicine River came up.

There has never been much public information for the record allowing concerned Albertan or angler to openly study and better comprehend the ins and outs of the way commercial fishing operations operate and affect Alberta fisheries, fishery management budgets, angling desires and angling experiences.

One of Alberta’s major concerns is the limited amount of lakes within the province and the significant number of anglers that buy angling licenses roughly (200,000-300,000 angling licenses sold in Alberta annually).