ontario regulation 301/07

made under the

fish and wildlife conservation act, 1997

Made: June 28, 2007
Filed: July 3, 2007
Published on e-Laws: July 4, 2007
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: July 21, 2007

Amending O. Reg. 664/98

(Fish Licensing)

1. Part IV of Ontario Regulation 664/98 is amended by adding the following section immediately after the heading “Licence To Collect Fish For Scientific Purposes”:

34.0.1 In this Part,

“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. (1) The definition of “tourist operator” in subsection 37 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“tourist operator” means a person who provides ice fishing hut accommodations for the purpose of fishing to anglers for a fee.

(2) Subsection 37 (3) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(3) A person shall not place or occupy, for the purpose of fishing, an ice fishing hut on the ice of any of the waters described in section 38 unless one of the following numbers is displayed on the outside of the ice fishing hut in numerals at least two and one-half inches high:

1. For ice fishing huts on Lake Nipissing belonging to a tourist operator, the number assigned to the ice fishing hut on the licence issued to the tourist operator under subsection (2).

2. For all other ice fishing huts, the number assigned by the Minister to the owner of the ice fishing hut. 

3. Section 38 of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

38. A person shall not place, use, occupy or leave an ice fishing hut on the ice,

(a) after March 1 in any year, in fisheries management zones 17 and 20;

(b) after March 15 in any year, in fisheries management zones 14, 16, 18 and 19;

(c) after March 31 in any year, in fisheries management zones 9, 10, 11 and 15;

(d) after March 15 in any year, below Lake Tamiskaming dam in fisheries management zone 12; or

(e) after March 31 in any year, above Lake Tamiskaming dam in fisheries management zone 12.

4. Schedule E to the Regulation is revoked.

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

Made by:

David James Ramsay

Minister of Natural Resources

Date made: June 28, 2007.