DEC Announces Public Meetings on Plan to Restore and Enhance Niagara River, Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River Fisherie

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today that five public meetings will be held and public comments solicited on the draft "Sportfishing Restoration and Spending Plan" for the Lake Ontario system. The Draft Plan proposes ways to restore and enhance recreational fishing and fisheries in the New York waters of the lower Niagara River, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and their tributaries upstream to the first barrier impassable to fish (hereafter referred to as the Lake Ontario system).

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