I think DFO expects a degree of honesty in recording your catch. Perhaps we can promote that.How DFO can enforce this is beyond me. The area in front of the LQ is area 14-4, which runs from just north of the LQ all the way over to Sister's Island, then back to the French Creek light. So you bonk your fish and mark 14-4 on your license, then bonk another and put 14-4 as the location. So how can DFO prove where you caught both fish?
Not too sure about that. Pretty sure you can still catch and release it that area, even after you've recorded your catch. The only places you can't fish are finfish fishing closure areas (or an RCA). Do you have a link that says you must stop fishing after you've recorded your catch? It might be a good thing to do, but I don't think it's a regulation.Not sure how they do it on the inside but on the West side you cannot continue to fish in the restricted area once you have recorded your catch.
So if you bonk a Chinook on the outside of the line, you have reached your limit for that area and can only fish on the inside of that line from there on.
If you retain a Chinook on the inside, you can no longer fish outside of said line but can continue to fish for your second Chinook within the boundary.
The same rules apply in Renfrew for wild vs hatchery Coho based on your location to the bay.
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Not too sure about that. Pretty sure you can still catch and release it that area, even after you've recorded your catch. The only places you can't fish are finfish fishing closure areas (or an RCA). Do you have a link that says you must stop fishing after you've recorded your catch? It might be a good thing to do, but I don't think it's a regulation.
In Renfrew, on one side of the line you are allowed wild Coho (2), while on the other side of the line you are allowed hatchery only (4), or a combined 4 of which only 2 may be wild. A DFO officer explained to me that if you retain a wild fish, you cannot fish inside the line any longer as you are in posession of a illegal fish for that area.
Just repeating what I was told.
So, you sure can fish after you have retained your daily limit, but as in the Renfrew example, you must fish where your retained catch is legal.
There is no general prohibition in Canadian waters that forces you to stop fishing once you’ve hit a limit, other than areas fully closed to angling.
Sorry, but that Fishery Officer is full of shi! and clearly doesn’t know the regs and laws he/she is employed to enforce.
Any updates on fishing around Ballenas & area? Got some tourists from back east looking to get out for a rip.
The Vedder River is a Canadian Water and does prohibit fishing once you’ve hit your limit for hatch Steelhead.
Nothing to be sorry about Ukee, I would like to be there when you explain to the officer why you have two wild Coho in your possession while activly fishing in an area where retention on wild Coho is prohibited.
Have your cheque book handy.
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You know, this is just a disrespectful and truly ignorant comment to make. Maybe OP misunderstood what they were told? Or there was some sort of confusion in how the message was relayed.
Friend of mine fishes exclusively out there. Says it was dead. If your boat can handle it, I'd run over to Sandheads and try your luck there.
That is a freshwater fishery regulated by the Government of B.C., not DFO.