Commerical opening details
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Category(s): COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Gill Net
Subject: FN0783-COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Gill Net - Area D - Johnstone Strait - Opening
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Areas 12 and 13 (Study Area Chum)
The Chum Working Group has concluded its pre-fishery meetings, and have
developed a fishing plan and consultation schedule for 2009. Weekly conference
calls will be held on Thursdays at 10:00 hours starting September 24, 2009.
Fishers are reminded to please phone AMR to report their catch information from
the first opening (September 30-October 2).
The following will be the second weekly gill net opening for Johnstone
Straits. A third opening is currently scheduled from October 15-17; this
opening will be confirmed in-season and will be subject to weather issues and
effort levels.
Gill Nets open for 41 hrs from 16:00 hours Thursday October 8 to 09:00 hours
Saturday October 10, in the following areas:
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Category(s): COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Troll
Subject: FN0805-Salmon: Troll - Area H - Areas 12 and 13 - Johnstone Strait Chum
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Fishing Period one of the Area H Troll Johnstone Strait chum Individual
Transferable Boat Day demonstration fishery will close on Sunday October 11
2009 at 23:59 hours which is one day later than previously announced. This
change was recommended by the Area H Harvest Committee. Refer to Fishery Notice
FN0748 dated September 21 for further details regarding Fishing Period one.
Monday October 12 2009 will be closed to fishing.
Fishing period two will open at 00:01 hours Tuesday October 13 2009 as
described below. Each vessel has been assigned an initial allocation of three
boat days in fishing period one and two boat days in fishing period two. Boat
days may be fished at any time within each fishing period. Boat days are
transferable between Area H vessels within a fishing period but not between
fishing periods. A maximum of one third of the total number of boat days held
may be carried over from fishing period one to fishing period two provided that
that the day(s) was not fished. The carry-over will be rounded down to the
nearest whole number if required. Vessels eligible for the carry-over of day(s)
will be automatically issued licence amendments showing the updated number of
days permitted to fish. Vessels with incomplete reporting records (start/end
and daily catch reports) will not be issued amendments until all records are
current.
Fishing period two will open 00:01 hours Tuesday, October 13, 2009 to 23:59
Thursday November 5, 2009, with the exception of October 19, 2009 which will be
closed for the anticipated seine fishery, in Subareas 12-1 to 12-5, 13-6, 13-7
(excluding Deepwater Bay), 13-8 to 13-10, a portion of 13-11 lying west of a
line from Bodega Point on Quadra Island, to a boundary sign at 50 degrees
16.390 minutes north, by 125 degrees 22.620 minutes west, 13-27 to 13-32, 13-35
and 13-40 (westerly of a line running from a Prominent Point approximately 1.5
miles east of Eden Point across to a boundary sign on the Hardwicke Island
shore opposite). The regular Amor de Cosmos creek boundary will be in effect.
Subareas 13-6 and 13-7 are exceptions and will be closed on weekends and
holidays.
