Information below was taken from a March 6, 2015 Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Fact Sheet.
To protect the environment and ensure safety, anglers must register new or previously unregistered ice-fishing huts on area lakes.
Registration is free and helps discourage anglers from abandoning their huts, which can end up in waterways and washed up on shorelines when the ice thaws.
- Anglers must remove ice huts from the waters of FMZ 16 and FMZ 19 by March 15.
- Ice huts must be removed from lakes before ice break-up, even if it is before the specified removal date. It is an offence under the Public Lands Act to leave an ice hut after ice break-up.
Learn More
- For ice hut registration in other districts, refer to the Ontario Fishing Regulations Summary.
- For more information on ice hut registration and requirements, contact your local ministry office.