Newfoundland and Labrador Fishery Regulations (SOR/78-443)

Application

3 Only sections 2, 8, 21, 24.1, 29, 36 and 41 apply in respect of fishing and related activities carried out under the authority of a licence issued under the Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licences Regulations.

PART IGeneral

4 [Repealed, SOR/84-323, s. 3]

5 to 6.1 [Repealed, SOR/93-63, s. 2]

7 and 7.1 [Repealed, SOR/86-23, s. 2]

8 Where a person has set fishing gear in any waters of the Province, he shall not leave that gear unattended for a period of more than three consecutive days, excluding the date of the setting of the gear, unless prevented from attending the gear by circumstances beyond his control.

9 [Repealed, SOR/84-58, s. 1]

• 10 (1) Subject to subsection (4) and section 11, no person shall fish for, catch or kill or attempt to fish for, catch or kill any fish in any inland waters other than by angling.

• (2) No person shall jig, net, sweep, rake or willfully foul hook or attempt to jig, net, sweep, rake or foul hook fish in inland waters and any fish accidentally foul hooked shall be released.

• (3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to the use of a gaff, tailer or landing net in landing a fish.

• (4) Subject to subsection (5), the Inuit and Indians in Labrador may catch and take fish for food at any time in inland waters by means of nets, traps or spears but such fish shall not be sold or used for any commercial purpose.

• (5) No Inuit or Indian in Labrador shall in inland waters set

  • (a) a net or nets that, in the aggregate, exceed 46 m in overall length at any one time, or

  • (b) a net unless the net has attached thereto a piece of wood or metal on which the name of the operator is legibly marked and readily visible without raising the net from the water.

11 [Repealed, SOR/93-63, s. 3]

12 Subject to subsection 10(4), no person shall have in his possession a net or trawl near any inland water unless he has a licence authorizing him to use a net or trawl in inland waters.

13 No person shall angle in, or have angling gear that is in readiness for fishing within 15 m of any waters set out in column I of an item of Schedule III during the close time set out in column II of that item.

• 13.1 (1) No person engaged in angling shall, in any one day, catch and retain more fish of a species set out in column I of an item of the table to this section, from the waters set out in column II of that item, than the daily quota set out in column III of that item.

• (2) No person engaged in angling shall, in any year, catch and retain more fish of a species set out in column I of an item of the table to this section, from the waters set out in column II of that item, than the yearly quota set out in column IV of that item.

• (3) No person shall possess more fish of a species set out in column I of an item of the table to this section, taken by angling from the waters set out in column II of that item, than the possession limit set out in column V of that item.

• (4) No person engaged in angling shall catch and retain, or possess, fish of a species set out in column I of an item of the table to this section, from the waters set out in column II of that item, that do not comply with the length limit set out in column VI of that item.

• (5) No person engaged in angling shall fish for, or catch and retain, a species of fish set out in column I of an item of the table to this section, from the waters set out in column II of that item, during the close time set out in column VII of that item.

• (6) No person engaged in angling shall catch and release more than four salmon in any one day.

• (7) The daily quota set out in column III of item 1 of the table in this section and the possession limit set out in column V apply collectively to speckled trout, brown trout, rainbow trout and ouananiche.

  	Column I	Column II	Column III	Column IV	Column V	Column VI	Column VII
  Item	Species	Waters	Daily Quota	Yearly Quota	Possession Limit	Length Limit	Close Time
  1	(a) Speckled trout (b) Brown trout (c) Rainbow trout (d) Ouananiche	All inland and tidal waters	12 fish of any of the species set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) of column I, or 2.25 kg plus one fish of any of those species, whichever is reached first	N/A	24 fish of any of the species set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) of column I, or 4.5 kg plus one fish of any of those species, whichever is reached first	60 cm or less	Jan. 1 to Jan. 31
  2	Lake trout	All inland waters	2	N/A	4	60 cm or less	Jan. 1 to Feb. 1
  3	Arctic char	(a) All inland and tidal waters of insular Newfound­land	(a) 12 Arctic char, or 2.25 kg plus one fish of that species, whichever is reached first	(a) N/A	(a) 24 Arctic char, or 4.5 kg plus one fish of that species, whichever is reached first	(a) 60 cm or less	(a) Jan. 1 to Feb. 1
  		(b) All inland and tidal waters of Labrador	(b) 2	(b) N/A	(b) 4	(b) 60 cm or less	(b) Jan. 1 to Feb. 1
  4	Northern pike	All inland waters	2	N/A	4	60 cm or less	Sept. 8 to Dec. 31
  5	Salmon	All inland waters	2	6	6	63 cm or less	Jan. 1 to May 31
  6	Smelt	All inland and tidal waters	No limit	No limit	No limit	None	Apr. 16 to Jan. 14
  7	Any species not set out in items 1 to 7	All inland and tidal waters	No limit	No limit	No limit	None	Jan. 1 to Feb. 1

13.2 and 13.3 [Repealed, SOR/2003-338, s. 6]

• 14 (1) No person shall, while angling in any inland waters, use

  • (a) more than one line or rod and line at any time;

  • (b) a line or rod and line that is not closely and constantly attended by him; or

  • (c) subject to subsection (2), a line equipped with more than one artificial fly, one single hook with bait and one single gang hook with lure.

• (2) No person shall, while angling in any river set out in Schedule I, use:

  • (a) a line equipped with anything other than an artificial fly with a barbless hook; or

  • (b) a line equipped with more than one hook.

• (3) No person shall, while ice fishing, use

  • (a) more than three separate lines, or rods and lines, at any time;

  • (b) a line or rod and line that is not closely and constantly attended by him; or

  • (c) a line equipped with more than one single hook with bait and one single gang hook with lure.

15 to 17 [Repealed, SOR/89-583, s. 1]

18 to 20 [Repealed, SOR/84-323, s. 10]

21 No person under the age of fourteen years shall angle in any river set out in Schedule I unless he is accompanied by and under the supervision of a person who has attained the age of seventeen years.

22 No person shall angle for fish in any river set out in Schedule I during that part of any day commencing one hour after sunset and ending one hour before sunrise on the following day.

23 [Repealed, SOR/2003-338, s. 7]

24 No person shall retain alive any sport fish taken by angling in any inland waters.

24.1 Subject to these Regulations, no person shall wilfully disturb or molest any fish or spawn in inland waters.

24.2 No person shall catch, injure or retain any spent fish or immature fish in inland waters and any such fish caught accidentally shall be released immediately.

25 [Repealed, SOR/93-338, s. 1]

Disruption of Fish Habitat

26 [Repealed, SOR/93-63, s. 4]