Lake Huron Fishing Club Gets Money for River and Stream Study

[John Bennett]

Two different kettles of fish ( I think ) Chris.

LHFC (and others) are grass roots, volunteer organisations, that among many things rely heavily on funding, volunteer eforts. Whose only goal is to sustain and better a fishery for the benefit of all user groups, including first nations. The SoN (and others) benefit in essense, only themselves. Guess what Im driving at is one hand is "inclusive" everyone is welcome to fish and take........The other is exlcusive.

So
in one case, you have a cash strapped gov't thats been gutting the MNR handing out 850k so a select few can benefit
And on the other another level of govt handing over tax payer monies to a conservation group that benefits all users.

Night and day imo.

In some ways, while disimiliar, not so disimiliar from the StA can of worms.
Horrible results, utilizing hard to come hatchery space that benefit one user group.....But from appearances, the monies come largely from private groups and elsewhere (not the SPA) and benefit many user groups.

I have zero desire to enter those frays (various native issues), other than to say.
As long as there are separate rules and user groups are treated differently, there will always be strife.

In this day and age, when all govts. From municple, to prov, to fed, to varying degrees each finding it very hard to do the impossible. Do everything we tax payers want in our cradle to grave existance, and some are starved for cash.

Good on the LHFC.
Its been a long time and few and far between when grass roots (likely the future if funding trends continue) get some loving and much needed cash.