O. Reg. 418/07: FISH LICENSING

 

ontario regulation 418/07

made under the

Fish and Wildlife conservation act, 1997

Made: July 25, 2007
Filed: July 27, 2007
Published on e-Laws: July 31, 2007
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: August 11, 2007
 

Amending O. Reg. 664/98

(Fish Licensing)

1. Section 1 of Ontario Regulation 664/98 is amended by adding the following definition:

“fisheries management zone” or “zone” means a subdivision of the waters of Ontario as shown on Regulation Plans of Fisheries Management Zones 1- 20 filed on May 30, 2006 with the Office of the Surveyor General of Ontario in the Ministry of Natural Resources,

2. Section 6 of the Regulation is revoked.

3. Section 9 of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

9. A holder of a non-resident sport fishing licence shall not take fish in excess of the conservation catch and possession limits set out under the Ontario Fishery Regulations if the licence holder is camping on Crown land located in,

(a) fisheries management zone 2, 4 or 6; or

(b) fisheries management zone 5, except in the area designated as Part 1 on a plan known as Regulation Plan of the Border Waters Area in Fisheries Management Zone 5 filed on June 7, 2007 with the Office of the Surveyor General of Ontario in the Ministry of Natural Resources;

4. Subsections 31.3 (1), (1.1) and (2) of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

(1) Except under the authority of a commercial bait licence that authorizes the holder to take, buy or sell leeches or bait-fish, a person shall not,

(a) take bait-fish for commercial purposes; or

(b) buy or sell leeches or bait-fish for commercial purposes.

(1.1) Except under the authority of a commercial bait licence that authorizes the holder to take, buy or sell leeches, a person shall not take in one day or possess at any time more than 120 leeches.

(1.2) The holder of a commercial bait licence shall not buy leeches or bait-fish for commercial purposes except from a person who is authorized to sell them.

(2) A person shall not buy or sell frogs for the purpose of bait for fishing.

5. Schedule A to the Regulation is revoked.

6. Schedule B to the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

SCHEDULE B
SPECIES ELIGIBLE FOR CULTURE IN ONTARIo

Lake sturgeon	Acipenser fulvescens
Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
Brown trout	Salmo trutta
Brook trout	Salvelinus fontinalis
Lake trout	Salvelinus namaycush
Arctic char	Salvelinus alpinus
Splake	The hybrid of Salvelinus fontinalis and Salvelinus namaycush
Chinook salmon	Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Coho salmon	Oncorhynchus kisutch
Pink salmon	Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Rainbow trout	Oncorhynchus mykiss
Lake whitefish	Coregonus clupeaformis
Lake herring (cisco)	Coregonus artedi
Muskellunge	Esox masquinongy
Northern Pike	Esox lucius
Creek chub	Semotilus atromaculatus
White sucker	Catostomus commersoni
Bluntnose minnow	Pimephales notatus
Fathead minnow	Pimephales promelas
Northern redbelly dace	Phoxinus eos
Finescale dace	Phoxinus neogaeus
Common shiner	Luxilus cornutus
Golden shiner	Notemigonus crysoleucas
Emerald shiner	Notropis atherinoides
Common carp	Cyprinus carpio
Goldfish	Carassius auratus
Brown bullhead	Ameiurus nebulosus
Channel catfish	Ictalurus punctatus
American eel	Anguilla rostrata
Largemouth bass	Micropterus salmoides
Smallmouth bass	Micropterus dolomieu
Bluegill	Lepomis macrochirus
Pumpkinseed	Lepomis gibbosus
Black crappie	Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Walleye	Sander vitreus
Sauger	Sander canadensis
Yellow perch	Perca flavescens
Tilapia of the genera	Oreochromis, Sarotherodon, Tilapia
Calico Crayfish	Orconectes immunis
Virile Crayfish	O. virilis
Northern clearwater crayfish	O. propinquus
Robust Crayfish	Cambarus robustus
Appalachian Brook Crayfish	C. bartonii
Marsh Pondsnail or Melantho Snail	Stagnicola elodes

7. This Regulation comes into force on January 1, 2008.