2024 LOTSA End of Year Party, 12/12/24 at 7pm.

[Instigator]

On Thursday December 12th at 7pm, the Lake Ontario Trout & Salmon Association (LOTSA) will be having our annual end of year meeting. Special guests for this meeting will be Christopher Legard, Lake Ontario Unit Leader, Mike Connerton, Aquatic Biologist, Jessica Goretzke, Aquatic Biologist, and Jim Markham, Region 9 Fisheries Manager. One of the ways that the DEC is managing the Lake Ontario Trout and Salmon Fishery is by participating in meetings where a significant number of Lake Ontario anglers will be in attendance. They want to hear directly from those anglers who heavily use the Fishery and their input about the 2024 season along with answering any questions they might have. This is the only meeting with the DEC on the west end of the lake this year.

Some of the topics they will be covering include,

1. 2024 Lake Ontario creel survey results for both the Lake and the Tributaries

2. Age structure and weight of Chinook Salmon

3. 2024 prey fish survey results

4. DNA assessment of wild versus Hatchery raised Chinook Update

5. 2025 Stocking Plans

We highly encourage those anglers who are interested in the constant improvement of the fishery to attend and provide their input. Pizza and drinks will be available starting at 6:30pm compliments of LOTSA.

Hope to see everyone there as it should be a very informative meeting to end the year out.

The meeting will be held at The North Amherst Fire Company, 2200 Tonawanda Creek Rd. Amherst, N.Y. The Seminar is open to the public and free to attend. See WWW.LOTSA1.ORG for any questions.

Article written by John Suttell LOTSA