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.
