(David Denyes and Alex Crichton conduct a survey on the North Arm of Rainy Lake to monitor angling effort on the lake and to gauge the number and weight of fish harvested during the open-water fishing season - MNR photo)
The Ministry of Natural Resources is in the midst of a creel survey on Rainy Lake.
A survey crew is working in the north arm of the lake until the end of September.
Area Biologist Darryl McLeod says it will give the MNR good information on the lake's fishery.
"It helps us evaluate the fishing regulations on the lake," says McLeod. "For example, the walleye slot-size that's on Rainy Lake. It also helps us evaluate our management objectives so we can look at what our target harvest levels are."
McLeod says the findings will also help in a possible re-write of the Ontario-Minnesota Boundary Waters Fisheries Atlas in 2014.
