It’s National Fishing Week in Canada.
The Canadian Safe Boating Council wants to remind everyone getting on the water to wear their lifejacket.
According to the Canadian Safe Boating Council and the Lifesaving Society, 80 percent of recreational boaters who drown each and every year in Canada were not wearing a lifejacket or Personal Floatation Device.
60 percent of drownings happen when people aren’t wearing their lifejackets and are using small, open power boats.
The majority of these drowning victims are males between the ages of 19 and 35 and are out for a day of fishing.
