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WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The warm temperatures are causing the ice conditions across much of southern Manitoba to deteriorate faster than normal this spring, Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship urges anyone with an ice shack on a lake or river in southern Manitoba to remove the structure as soon as possible, as long as ice conditions are safe to do so. This is one of the few ice fishing shacks that remain on the Red River north of Lockport Thursday. The last day for removal of ice shacks in the south normally March 31, but this season all ice-fishing shacks are to be moved off the Red River by March 13. Anglers are asked to have shacks in the area south of Riding Mountain National Park, as well as those on Lake of the Prairies, Dauphin Lake, Moose Lake and Buffalo Bay in the Lake of the Woods off the ice by March 15. SEE RELEASE March 10 2016