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Both proposals would encompass more than 1,700 square miles and cover dozens of known shipwrecks.

Sturgeon are native to Lake Ontario and the Genesee River, but habitat loss and overfishing decimated the population, causing it to dwindle to almost nothing by the early 1900s.

"We have built everything up that we could possible do to be resilient against high water and now we are finding ourselves on the extreme opposite."

The last 12 months over Lake Ontario have been the driest since 1966, according to the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board.

"The risk of flooding on Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River has declined from moderate in December 2020 to low."

“When I was around 12 years old, I lived far from the ocean,” he said. “So I surfed on my bed, on my pillow. I always imagined my pillow was a surf board and I was in the wave.”

“They’re not being transparent enough, they’re not engaging the stakeholders and the shoreline communities and they’re not getting the data they need from the appropriate sources like the shoreline communities."