Pacific Fishery Regulations, 1993 (SOR/93-54)

Salmon Size Limits

• 55 (1) No person who is trolling for salmon shall catch and retain a coho salmon that is less than

  • (a) 30 cm in length, measured from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail; or

  • (b) where the head has been removed, 26 cm in length, measured along the shortest length of the body to the fork of the tail.

• (2) No person who is trolling for salmon shall

  • (a) in any area seaward of the surfline or in any of Areas 1 to 12 or 19 to 27, catch and retain a chinook salmon that is less than

    • (i) 67 cm in length, measured from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail, or

    • (ii) where the head has been removed, 56 cm in length, measured along the shortest length of the body to the fork of the tail; or

  • (b) in any of Areas 13 to 18, 28 or 29, catch and retain a chinook salmon that is less than

    • (i) 62 cm in length, measured from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail, or

    • (ii) where the head has been removed, 51 cm in length, measured along the shortest length of the body to the fork of the tail.

Salmon Trolling

• 56 (1) [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 15]

• (2) [Repealed, SOR/96-330, s. 3]

• (3) and (4) [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 15]

• (5) No person shall, while trolling in an area in which trolling for a species of salmon is prohibited, have on board a vessel any salmon of that species.

Salmon Gill Nets

• 57 (1) No person shall fish for salmon in the waters set out in column I of the table to this section during the close time set out in column II from a vessel where the aggregate length of gill net on the drum or drums of the vessel and in the water is greater than the net length set out in column III.

  Item	Column I	Column II	Column III
  	Waters	Close Time	Net Length
  1	Stikine River	All Year	135 m
  2	Subarea 23-1	(a) Aug. 14 to Sept. 30	(a) 183 m
  		(b) Oct. 1 to Aug. 13	(b) 375 m
  3	Area 22	(a) Jan. 1 to Sept. 30	(a) 183 m
  		(b) Oct. 1 to Dec. 31	(b) 375 m
  4	Area 20	All Year	550 m
  5	Any waters not referred to in items 1 to 4	All Year	375 m

• (2) No person who is fishing for salmon shall

  • (a) set a gill net in the water and leave it unattended; or

  • (b) use an anchored gill net in any waters except those of Subarea 10-11 or the Taku or Stikine Rivers.

• (3) [Repealed, SOR/97-365, s. 1]

• (4) [Repealed, SOR/94-391, s. 4]

Salmon Purse Seines

58 [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 16]

59 [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 17]

• 60 (1) For the purposes of this section,

  depth

  depth, in respect of a purse seine, means the sum total of the mesh sizes of all meshes in a perpendicular row of meshes from the corkline to the lead line; (chute)

  length

  length, in respect of a purse seine, means the aggregate total length of the seine corkline and any lead attached to it and includes any part of the seine corkline on the net drum of the vessel from which it is being used. (longueur)

• (2) No person shall fish for salmon with a purse seine that

  • (a) has a mesh size of less than 70 mm;

  • (b) is less than 270 m in length; or

  • (c) is less than 20 m in depth.

• (3) No person shall fish for salmon in any Area other than Area 20 with a purse seine that is more than

  • (a) 400 m in length; or

  • (b) 52 m in depth.

• (4) No person shall fish for salmon in Area 20 with a purse seine that is more than

  • (a) 550 m in length; or

  • (b) 80 m in depth.

PART VIIShellfish

61 [Repealed, SOR/2003-137, s. 23]

Interpretation

62 For the purposes of this Part, width, in respect of a shellfish, means the maximum distance, measured in a straight line, through the greatest breadth of the shell of the shellfish.

Close Times

63 No person shall fish for a species of shellfish set out in column I of an item of Schedule VII in the waters set out in column II of that item using a method set out in column III of that item during the close time set out in column IV of that item.

64 [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 18]

Clams

• 65 (1) No person shall take

  • (a) a razor clam that is less than 90 mm in width;

  • (b) a butter clam that is less than 63 mm in width; or

  • (c) a Manila or littleneck clam that is less than 38 mm in width.

• (2) and (3) [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 19]

Crabs

• 66 (1) No person shall catch and retain

  • (a) a Dungeness crab that is less than 165 mm in width; or

  • (b) a red rock crab that is less than 115 mm in width.

• (2) and (3) [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 20]

67 to 69 [Repealed, SOR/99-296, s. 21]

Sea Urchins

• 70 (1) No person shall catch and retain a red sea urchin that is less than 100 mm in width.

• (2) No person shall catch and retain a green sea urchin that is less than 55 mm in width.

PART VIIIMarine Plants

• 71 (1) No person shall harvest marine plants except under the authority of a licence issued for that purpose by the Minister under section 45 of the Act.

• (2) Every person to whom a licence is issued under section 45 of the Act shall

  • (a) maintain an accurate record showing the area where harvesting is carried out and the quantity of each species of marine plants harvested in that area; and

  • (b) not later than the tenth day of every month during the term of the licence, and following the termination of the licence, make a written return to the Minister showing the quantity of each species of marine plants harvested under the authority of the licence during the previous month.

PART IXHalibut

Interpretation

72 For the purposes of this Part,

automated hook stripper

automated hook stripper, commonly called a crucifier, means a device through which the groundline of a longline can be passed during gear retrieval, allowing the groundline and hooks to pass freely while removing the fish; (dégorgeoir automatique)

Commission

Commission means the International Pacific Halibut Commission established under the Convention between Canada and the United States of America for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, signed at Ottawa on March 2, 1953, and the Protocol amending that Convention, signed at Washington D.C. on March 29, 1979. (Commission)

73 [Repealed, SOR/2003-137, s. 24]

Close Time

• 74 (1) No person shall fish for or catch and retain halibut in any Subarea during the close time from 12:00 h October 31 to 12:00 h March 1.

• (2) No person fishing in any Subarea during the close time set out in subsection (1) shall possess halibut.

Size Limits

75 No person shall catch and retain any halibut that is less than

• (a) 81.3 cm in length, measured in a straight line from the tip of the lower jaw with the mouth closed and passing over the pectoral fin to the extreme end of the middle of the tail; or

• (b) where the head has been removed, 61 cm in length, measured in a straight line from the base of the pectoral fin at its most anterior point to the extreme end of the middle of the tail.

Gear Restrictions

• 76 (1) No person shall fish for or catch and retain halibut with any gear other than hook and line or trap.

• (2) No person shall possess halibut on board a vessel that is being used to fish with or is carrying a trawl net.

• (3) No person shall fish for halibut from a vessel that is equipped with or has on board an automated hook stripper.

• (4) No person shall possess halibut on a vessel that is equipped with or has on board an automated hook stripper.

Retention of Tagged Halibut

77 Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations or the Fishery (General) Regulations, where a person at any time catches a halibut that bears a tag affixed by the Commission, the person may retain the halibut, if at the time of the landing of the halibut the person reports the landing to a fishery officer or a representative of the Commission and makes the halibut, with the tag still affixed, available for examination by a fishery officer or a representative of the Commission.