Most winters, at least once a week, Mike Diabo will snowmobile to the shores of one of his local lakes in southern Quebec, carry his fishing gear across the frozen surface, and drill down through the ice to reveal the dark water beneath.
Diabo, 46, has only been out fishing four times so far this winter. Usually he would start no later than early January. He blames climate change for the unseasonal weather and worries ice fishing season will only get shorter in future.
"We should have got what we have now more than a month ago. Being able to get out there and safely fish and travel around on the water systems and hunt, it's all been pushed back." "People tell us across the board they would like more traditional food but there are barriers, and one of them is climate change," Batal said. "The animals are not behaving the way they used to, the seasons are shorter, there's a decline in the number of animals and fish."
Diabo, a father of five, said the fluctuating temperatures and occasional days of rain were making the ice less safe. Rabbit-trapping with his two middle children has been put on hold because of less snow than usual.
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