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ACTIVITIES NOT ALLOWED WHILE ANGLING

 

This applies to the open water season on inland waters.

 

  • Sport fish may not be caught by means other than angling. 

  • No person shall angle with more than one fishing line to which more than three hooks are attached.

  • No person shall use a set-line for fishing in inland waters. 

  • No person shall angle for sport fish during the period beginning two hours after sunset and ending two hours before sunrise (see exception, page 15). 

  • No person shall fish for sea-run Atlantic salmon with an artificial fly that has more than two hooks.

  • No person shall fish with the aid of an artificial light or light from a fire.

  • No person shall use or possess live fish (including crayfish) as bait in inland waters. – Exception: On international boundary waters (between Maine and New Brunswick), live fish may be used as bait provided they are obtained from the water being fished and are not on the prohibited list (see below). – On international boundary waters (between Maine and New Brunswick), tidal waters and all inland waters, dead fish can be used as bait, as long as they are not on the prohibited list (see below). – The use of the following fish as live or dead bait is prohibited: bass, bullhead, sunfish, yellow perch, white perch, other spiny fin-rayed fish, pickerel, muskellunge, goldfish or other carp. 

  • Fishing with bait or lures is not permitted on Crown Reserve Waters. Artificial flies must be used while fishing these waters. 

  • Fishing and/or assisting another angler to fish from a bridge is not permitted. 

  • Fishing is not permitted within 22.8 m (25 yards) downstream from the lower entrance to any fish-way, canal, obstacle or leap.

  •  Fishing is not permitted within a 100 m radius of any facility operated by or on behalf of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans or the Province for the purposes of counting, passage or rearing of fish. 

  • Gaffs cannot be used to land sport fish.

  • Jigging devices or spears are not permitted within 15 metres of inland waters. 

  • Snares or bows and arrows are not permitted in inland waters or within 15 metres of inland waters unless the person is lawfully hunting or trapping. 

  • Fishing by jigging, or assisting in landing fish that have been caught by jigging in inland waters is not permitted.

 


(info from: http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/nr-rn/pdf/en/Fish/Fish.pdf)

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