Northwest Territories Fishery Regulations (C.R.C., c. 847)

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Regulations are current to 2024-10-30 and last amended on 2020-04-01. Previous Versions

Sport Fishing (continued)

28 (1) Subject to section 38, no person angling or spear-fishing in the waters set out in column II of an item of Schedule VI shall catch and retain in any one day more fish of a species set out in column I of that item than the number set out in column III of that item.
(2) [Revoked, SOR/93-59, s. 14]
(3) [Revoked, SOR/87-508, s. 2]

29 (1) Subject to section 38, no person shall have in their possession at any time more fish of a species set out in column I of Schedule VI taken from the waters set out in column II than the number set out in column IV.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) and subsection 28(1), where a fish has been filleted, two fillets shall be regarded as one fish.
(3) Subject to subsection 38(3), no person shall have in his possession any fish taken by sport fishing at any place other than his permanent residence or transport any such fish unless the fish are
- (a) whole;
- (b) eviscerated; or
- (c) filleted with the skin attached.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(c), fillets shall be separated before being frozen so that the number of fish can be readily determined.
(5) No person shall place, or permit to be placed, in a storage facility any fish taken by sport fishing unless such fish are identified by the name and the sport fishing licence number of the person who caught them.

30 No person shall engage in sport fishing while employed as a guide by a person engaged in fishing.

31 (1) No person shall, in any year, sportfish in the Tree River after notice is given by a fishery officer that 700 arctic char have been taken from that river in that year.
(2) No person fishing in the waters of the Tree River shall take away or cause to be taken away from those waters more than two arctic char during any fishing trip.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to an Indian, Inuk or person of mixed blood.
(4) A notice referred to in subsection (1) shall be brought to the attention of the persons affected or likely to be affected by it by one or more of the methods set out in subsection 7(1) of the Fishery (General) Regulations.

32 (1) No person shall engage in spear fishing except while swimming and under authority of a sport fishing licence.
(2) [Repealed, SOR/2003-137, s. 4]
(3) All spears used in spear fishing shall be fastened to the spear gun or to the person operating the spear by a line of adequate strength to withstand without breaking any strain that is likely to be placed on the line while the gun is being operated.
(4) The shaft of every spear referred to in subsection (3) shall be fastened to the spear gun or the person using the spear by a line not exceeding 5 m in length.
(5) No person shall use, as a propellant in a spear gun, any explosive charge or any gas contained in a bottle or cartridge.

33 No person shall use or be in possession of a gaff while sport fishing.

34 (1) Notwithstanding subsection 7(1) but subject to subsection (2), no person shall use a dip net having a hoop width greater than 1 m in fishing for cisco and suckers.
(2) Any fish of a species other than ciscos and suckers taken by means of a dip net shall be returned to the water immediately.

35 No person shall, while sport fishing,

(a) fish in open water with more than a single line or rod and line;
(b) fish through the ice with more than two lines or two rods with lines attached;
(c) have more than two hooks attached to a line; or
(d) leave any line with hooks attached unattended.

36 No person shall engage in sport fishing in ice-covered water if he is more than 50 m from his line.

37 No person shall, when sport fishing, use any live fish for bait.

37.1 (1) No person engaged in angling shall use or possess a hook that is attached to the end of a fishing line if the hook is not a barbless hook.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to angling in Nunavut waters.

38 (1) No person shall have in his possession
- (a) any arctic grayling that is less than 36 cm fork length, or
- (b) more than one northern pike that is more than 90 cm fork length
taken from that portion of the Mackenzie River and tributary streams lying between 116° west longitude and 118° west longitude.
(2) No person shall
- (a) possess more than one lake trout that is longer than 70 cm fork length taken from Stark Lake or Great Slave Lake, including all tributary streams from their mouths to 1 km upstream; or
- (b) remove from the area referred to in paragraph (a) more than two lake trout.
(3) No person shall, on or adjacent to the waters described in subsection (1), have in his possession any Arctic grayling from which the head and tail have been removed unless the length of any such fish has been checked by a fishery officer before the head and tail were removed.
(4) No person shall
- (a) possess more than two lake trout taken from the waters of the special management area described in item 1 of Schedule VIII; or
- (b) remove from the area referred to in paragraph (a) more than one lake trout.

39 [Revoked, SOR/93-59, s. 16]