Yukon Territory Fishery Regulations

6 (1) and (2) [Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 5]

(3) [Repealed, SOR/94-269, s. 3]

(4) and (5) [Repealed, SOR/82-875, s. 5]

(6) [Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 5]

(7) Except as otherwise provided as a condition of a licence issued under these Regulations, each gang of nets shall be marked at each end during open water fishing by a buoy, and during winter fishing by a stake the top of which shall be at least 1.2 m above the surface of the ice.

(7.1) The Minister may specify a licence condition referred to in subsection (7) only if the purpose of the condition is to mitigate marine mammal entanglement.

(8) No person shall,

• (a) when fishing for any species of fish, set or operate gill nets that have a mesh size of less than 100 mm;

• (b) [Repealed, SOR/87-439, s. 4]

• (c) when fishing under the authority of a domestic fishing licence, set or operate

  • (i) more than one gill net, or

  • (ii) a gill net that exceeds 90 m in length.

(9) Except with the permission of a fishery officer, no person shall leave a gill net in the water

• (a) between May 1st and November 30th, for more than 30 consecutive hours, and

• (b) between December 1st and April 30th, for more than 72 consecutive hours,

without withdrawing it from the water and removing any fish caught therein.

(10) No person shall engage in fishing for salmon by means of fish wheels except in the Yukon River downstream from a fishing boundary sign located 800 m downstream from the confluence of Tatchun Creek and the Yukon River.

(11) and (12) [Repealed, SOR/94-269, s. 3]

(13) No person shall fish for salmon for commercial purposes in the Yukon River and its tributaries unless that person holds

• (a) a commercial fishing licence; and

• (b) a Yukon River salmon licence.

(13.1) [Repealed, SOR/87-439, s. 4]

(14) No person shall fish for salmon for domestic purposes in the Yukon River and its tributaries unless that person holds

• (a) a domestic fishing licence; and

• (b) a Yukon River salmon licence.

(14.1) The Minister may issue a Yukon River salmon licence to a person who holds a commercial fishing licence or domestic fishing licence and who, on or before March 31 in the year for which the Yukon River salmon licence is to be valid, applies in writing to the District Supervisor of the Department for the Yukon Territory and, with the application, encloses the fee for the Yukon River salmon licence that is set out in Schedule III.

(15) No person shall engage in commercial fishing or domestic fishing

• (a) in the Yukon River

  • (i) upstream from a fishing boundary sign located approximately 800 m downstream from the confluence of Tatchun Creek and the Yukon River; or

  • (ii) between the fishing boundary signs located approximately 800 m upstream from the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers and approximately 1.6 km downstream from that confluence;

• (b) in the Pelly River watershed upstream from the confluence of the Pelly and MacMillan Rivers;

• (c) in the Porcupine River watershed upstream from a fishing boundary sign located approximately 8 km upstream from the village of Old Crow; or

• (d) in the Stewart River watershed

  • (i) upstream from the confluence of the Stewart and McQueston Rivers, or

  • (ii) downstream from the confluence of the Stewart and McQueston Rivers from September 30 to July 7.

(16) No person shall engage in commercial fishing for salmon in the waters of the Yukon River and its tributaries during the close time beginning on October 30 in one year and ending on June 15 in the next year.

(16.1) No person shall engage in domestic fishing for salmon for domestic purposes in the waters of the Yukon River and its tributaries during the close time beginning on October 30 in one year and ending on June 15 in the next year.

(17) No person shall engage in commercial fishing in the Yukon River with

• (a) more than three fish wheels;

• (b) more than

  • (i) two fish wheels, and

  • (ii) 45 m of gill net consisting of a maximum of two nets;

• (c) more than

  • (i) one fish wheel, and

  • (ii) 65 m of gill net consisting of a maximum of three nets; or

• (d) more than 90 m of gill net consisting of a maximum of four nets.