Musquash Estuary Marine Protected Area Regulations

4 The following activities may be carried out in the Area:

• (a) the following fishing activities, namely,

  • (i) fishing that is carried out in accordance with the Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licences Regulations,

  • (ii) any of the following recreational fishing activities carried out in accordance with the Atlantic Fishery Regulations, 1985 or the Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations, namely,

    • (A) manually fishing for scallops or clams, and

    • (B) fishing for any other species by means of angling or a dip net, and

  • (iii) any of the following commercial fishing activities carried out in accordance with the Atlantic Fishery Regulations, 1985 or the Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations, namely,

    • (A) in Zone 1, fishing for elvers or eels by means of a hand-deployed fyke net or dip net,

    • (B) in Zone 2A, 2B or 3, fishing for lobster by means of individual traps and for herring by means of a weir, beach seine, bar seine or drag seine,

    • (C) in Zone 3, fishing for scallops, and

    • (D) in any Zone, manually fishing for clams;

• (b) in Zone 2A, 2B or 3, the recreational or commercial harvesting of dulse manually;

• (c) the operation of a vessel in Zone 2A or 2B at a speed no greater than five knots or in Zone 3 at a speed no greater than eight knots;

• (d) in Zone 2A, the construction of a boat launch, the maintenance, repair or removal of a wharf or boat launch or the maintenance of a navigation channel, for which approval or authorization is not required under the New Brunswick Clean Water Act, S.N.B. 1989, c. C-6.1, the Navigable Waters Protection Act or the Fisheries Act, as the case may be, or that is carried out in accordance with an approval or authorization required under any of those Acts; and

• (e) any activity that is carried out for the purpose of public safety, national defence, national security or law enforcement or in response to an emergency.