Rockfish Conservation Areas

[HALILLAMA]

It is in effect today Feb 1st. Please read if you haven't;
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish/Restricted_Areas/rca_e.htm
There is new and larger expanded area's so brush up on info and enter co-ordinates in your GPS. This link will show coastwide.[B)]

 

[Brokenrod]

WOW!! more changes,remember not just rockfish, no finfish can be taken in these areas. Although this can be very disruptive to many of us, I think it has to be done. I think back to the 70s & 8os and compare the fishery to today,there is no question it has to be done.

 

[Pablo2079]

I also thought those rolling closures of small areas they used to have were pretty good. Not sure what runs they were trying to protect though, but I liked the idea that small areas would get a break from fishing pressure.

I agree though, the RCAs have to be done.... they probably should rename them though since visitors might think it's okay to fish for salmon in those spots.

 

[Pablo2079]

Too bad they don't restrict the commercials in the RCAs as much as us sporties.

Recreational:
- Invertebrates by hand picking or dive;
- Crab by trap;
- Prawn by trap;
- Smelt by gillnet.

Commercial:
- Invertebrates by hand picking or dive;
- Crab by trap;
- Prawn by trap;
- Scallops by trawl;
- Salmon by seine or gillnet;
- Herring by gillnet, seine and spawn-on-kelp;
- Sardine by gillnet, seine, and trap;
- Smelt by gillnet;
- Euphausiid (krill) by mid-water trawl;
- Opal squid by seine;
- Groundfish by mid-water trawl.