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COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Seine
Fishery Notice - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Subject: FN0869-COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Seine - Area B - Areas 12 & 13 - Johnstone Strait Chum - Opening
The Area B Seine fishery for Johnstone Strait chum will be managed as a derby
style fishery for 2012. It is anticipated that seines will have two (2) full
fleet opportunities. The first fishery will take place on Tuesday, October 2,
2012 and the second fishery is expected to occur on Monday, October 22, 2012.
The second fishery will be confirmed in-season by fishery notice, subject to in-
season assessment information.
The first fishery is open during the time period and areas described below.
Area 12 (Upper Johnstone Strait)
Seines open for 12 hours from 07:00 hours Tuesday, October 2 to 19:00 hours
Tuesday, October 2 in Subareas 12-1 to 12-6, 12-8 to 12-12, 12-18 (easterly of
a line running from Lewis Point to Donegal Head on Malcolm Island), 12-20, 12-
21 and 12-24. Minimum bunt mesh size 100 mm. The regular Adams River boundary
will be in effect. The seine ribbon boundary will "not" be in effect.
Variation Order No. 2012-CR-SN-001
Area 13 (Lower Johnstone Strait)
Seines open for 12 hours from 07:00 hours Tuesday, October 2 to 19:00 hours
Tuesday, October 2 in Subareas 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 N by 125 degrees 22.620 minutes
W, 13-27 to 13-32, 13-35 and 13-40 (westerly of a line running from the
Prominent Point approximately 1.5 miles east of Eden Point across to a boundary
sign on the Hardwicke Island shore opposite). Minimum bunt mesh size 100 mm.
The regular Amor de Cosmos Creek boundary will be in effect (waters surrounding
the mouth of Amor de Cosmos Creek inside the radius of a circle 337 m in
diameter intersecting the shoreline at 50°21.867' N and 125°47.171' W [east of
the creek mouth] and 50 degree 21.658 N and 125 degree 41.630 W [west of the
creek mouth]). The seine ribbon boundary will "not" be in effect.
Variation Order No. 2012-CR-SN-001
NOTE:
1. The target species in this fishery is chum salmon, the incidental catch of
pink salmon may be retained in the areas open to fishing. There will be non-
retention of sockeye, coho, chinook, and steelhead.
2. Seine vessel masters are reminded that logbooks, operating revival tanks and
brailing are mandatory as condition of their licence and are legal requirements.
3. The mandatory logbook and phone-in program will be in effect similar to the
Johnstone Strait sockeye and pink fishery. Vessel masters are reminded to
provide start and end fishing reports to the service provider by phoning AMR at
1-888-387-0007. Vessel masters are also reminded that within 48 hours of
stopping fishing to offload catch or within two (2) hours of completing
offloading catch, whichever comes first, to provide to the service provider the
weight by species (in pounds) of fish offloaded. Note that a phone report is
required for all fishing activity even if no fish are caught. Failure to report
zero catches may result in the over estimation of total catch.