Hunting and Fishing

Blessed with dense forests and innumerable lakes and rivers, Québec is home to an incredible variety of game, from moose and bear to caribou and white-tailed deer. The skies, woods and marshes are alive with Canada geese and ptarmigans, partridges, snow geese, snipes and ducks. The waters swarm with pickerel, perch and pike, along with speckled trout, lake trout and Atlantic salmon. Alongside Indians and Inuit, the descendants of the coureurs des bois continue their age-old traditions of hunting and fishing.

Hunting and fishing enthusiasts flock from all over, drawn by the wealth of fish and game. Quebecers take good care of this incomparable natural resource, since for them hunting and fishing are perfect ways of enjoying the outdoors and getting back to the land.

Home away from Home

Québec has several hundred outfitters' lodges, offering hunters and anglers not only quality accommodation but also all sorts of packages including meals, air transportation, guides, boats and all-terrain vehicles. They will also store and freeze your fish or game and ship it home for you.

And while you are staying at one of these wilderness lodges, there are lots of other activities to enjoy: swimming, canoeing, hiking, and picking fruit, berries and mushrooms.

Well-Stocked Forests, Waters of Plenty

The hundreds of thousands of lakes and rivers in Québec are generally open for angling from spring to fall. True enthusiasts hate to hang up their rods, of course, even for one season, and can be found ice-fishing in the depths of winter.

Hunting is traditionally a fall and winter sport, although some game is in season in different areas of the province practically year-round.

Québec is divided into 25 hunting and fishing zones that can easily be reached by road or air. Despite its denser population, southern Québec near the U.S. border and in the Montréal region is still a good bet for both hunters and anglers.

[Duck] In western Québec, some of the largest herds of white-tailed deer in the province can be found, while the eastern part of the province has always been reputed for its wealth of Atlantic salmon. Central Québec is known for its abundant wildlife, in particular speckled trout, but also moose and some thirty species of ducks.

[Caribou] Île d'Anticosti is a true paradise, with over 120,000 deer in an area almost as large as Puerto Rico, while Québec's Far North is home to close to one million caribou.