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Thank you for visiting Canadian Angling, and welcome to our website. We have lots of information about fish, fishing, flyfishing, nature and the environment for you to read. On the left of this page, you will see our popular pages like Lunar Tables, Kids Fishing, Fishing Tournament 2011, Games, Fishing Knots, Wild brown trout hatchery, and we are the Home of Canada’s Top 100 Fishing sites. A link is on the bottom left.

Below here, you will see the Recent Articles we have written. These are articles on nature and the environment, information that you will find of interest. Stay tuned as we grow, update and improve. We will be upgrading our site during March break 2013 and during the summer. Check back for new fishing, nature and environmental articles. Our next article will be on chemicals in streams.

April 2, 2013 (Canadian Angling.com) Scientific studies in March have found that a combination of pesticides that are commonly used in agriculture are effecting the bee’s ability to learn and could interfere with the learning circuits in their brains. This is very important since the bees must forage to find floral food for the nest. Bees are one of the major pollinators of the human food supply and if they cant polinate, humans will lose many of our food sources. The study was published in Nature Communications by Dr. Christopher Connolly (University of Dundee). The team focused on two crop pesticides called neoicotinoid and coumaphos. Coumaphos is used to kill the parasitic Varroa mite which attacks the honey bee. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Angling.com (Feb 11, 2013) Scientific studies recently have discovered that state of the art hydro dams, that were supposed to allow migratory fish (like steelhead, rainbow, brown trout, salmon, herring) to swim upstream to spawn, have failed to allow the fish upriver. This is amazing since there was fish passage systems (fish ladders), built into the dams. This has further ramifications as more hydro dams are planned worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Angling (Feb. 10, 2013) Researchers have recently found that salmon runs, vary considerably over the centuries. In the past 20 years, they recognized that the salmon stocks vary yearly and some have 10 year long cycles, but their research has found that they actually may vary from one century to another. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Angling.com (July 31, 2012) — Recent research by scientists have revealed that a deadly virus is now threatening the B.C. sport fishing industry. The research was completed by Simon Fraser University professor Rick Routledge and Stan Proboszcz, a fisheries biologist at the Watershed Watch Salmon Society. They discovered that the piscine reovirus (PRV) have infected the cutthroat trout caught in Cultus Lake. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Angling.com (July 10, 2012): This past weekend, a cougar was shot after mauling a families dog in Huntsville. The MNR confirmed that police shot the cougar dead. It took 6 bullets to put the cougar down. Earlier in the week the police had issued a bulletin reporting that a big cat was attacking family pets in the region. While there have been many reports of cougars in southern Ontario in the recent years, this is the first confirmed and documented occurance.

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Canadian Angling.com (Mar. 26, 2012) For about 2 weeks, we saw unseasonably warm weather in the Eastern part of Canada and all along the east coast of the United States. Temperatures in southern Ontario reached 28C where the normal high was 4C. It was great to be outside and enjoy the great weather but this has caused some major problems with nature. The warm temperatures have brought out pollen from elm trees, flowers in bushes, maple trees to prematurely bud their leaves, an early and short maple syrup season, and some flowering trees to expose their flowers. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Angling.com (February 5, 2012). One of the most elusive species in North America is the flying squirrel. While their name suggests that they can fly, the flying squirrel actually glides through the air. You can see the rest of its family daily eating and climbing about, but you rarely see the flying squirrel. They are strictly a nocturnal species that searches for food during the night. There are two subspecies, the larger Northern and the smaller Southern flying squirrel. There are different distinct subspecies spread out through North America and some are endangered like the Virginia Northern flying squirrel. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Angling.com (December 1, 2011): Recent research by a German scientist says that the end of the world (apocalypse), is not going to be on December 21, 2012 but a transition to a new era. Sven Gronemeyer of La Trobe University in Australia interpretations were recently presented at the archaeological site of Palenque in southern Mexico.

This latest round of discussion about the 2012 apocalypse, all started about one week ago. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology created uproar in the scientific community when they stated that there was another reference to the 2012 date in Mayan inscriptions that they had found. This, of course, created another series of discussions about the end of the world. What they found was a second inscription mentioning the 2012 date on the carved or molded face of a brick found at the Comalcalco ruin, near the Tortuguero site. This is being kept inside the institute and is not available for display. Read the rest of this entry »

CanadianAngling.com (Nov. 8, 2011) Lately we have been following the story of what has been happening to the bat population in southern Ontario and the USA. We noted that we hardly saw any bats this summer around their normal flight locations. Recently the U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their partners’ found the cause of the white nosed syndrome in bats. They found that a fungus named Geomyces destructans is the cause and they published their research in Nature. This is the first direct proof that this fungus is the cause of the massive die off of the bats. Read the rest of this entry »

CanadianAngling.com (August 9, 2011). Finally researchers are starting to notice a recovery of Cod and other ground fish after 20 years. The populations crashed in the early 1990’s due to over fishing along the east coast. Their research was recently published in the July edition of Nature.

William Leggett (professor Department of Biology) said; “this early-stage recovery represents a long ecological transition for an ecosystem that was pushed out of balance and that is gradually moving back into balance,” He is an expert in large marine ecosystems. Read the rest of this entry »

(Originally posted June 2010) Canadian Angling.com: White Nose Syndrome has been found in some bats in the Bancroft/Minden area of Ontario. This is a white fungal disease that only effects bats and is not transmittable to humans. We first heard of this last year where the fungus attacked bat populations in New York State and knew it was only a matter of time until they effected populations in Ontario. Read the rest of this entry »