The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 14, 1994 - AQ

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_take aim at freezer fish *

By MALCOLM BAXTER
PICTURE THIS: there’s a knock
at ‘the door, you answer and find
yourself facing a conservation of-
ficer’ armed with a warrant to
search your freezer for trout,

Far-fetched as that may secm, it
could happen if proposed sport
fishing ‘regulations come into
force in 1996,

Al the moment the daily catch
limit in-this area is five trout with
a tolal possession limit of 10 fish.
Bul that has only applicd to the
trout anglers had on them during
or.on their way home from a fish-

ing trip. It did not include any.

lhey ‘might. baye at home, either
fresh or frozen.

The’ province proposes to
change the sport fish regulations
so that: total possession includes
the latter.”

Your: freezer should not be a
way of getting around the limit,’’
explained Jennifer Warris of the
Fisheries branch. -

She ‘alsa: pointed out BC was
the only province which ex-
empled fish kept at home from
the possession limits.

_- Warris said the — proposed
change is. a response to com-
plaints from the public about
anglers who limit out day after
day and calls for action to prevent
that from happening in the future.

As for how the possession limit
could be enforced, she said indi-
viduals would have the normal

~ protection afforded under the law,

In other words, to obtain a
scarch warrant, fisheries staff
would have to first persuade a
judge there were ‘'reasonable and
probable prounds”’ to belicve an

~ individual had more than the limit

at his home.
- Warris stressed ‘‘this is not a
‘fish cop issue.”’Rather, the pro-

_ posed regulation was intended to

hammer home the conservation
message, ©
- "This is a finite resource,’’ she
pointed oul, And with far more
people fishing these days than
ever before, it was important ta
protect that resource.

‘Because the possession limit is
for.an individual, she explained

the-10 fish figure would apply for |

each member ‘of a household.

Therefore, a family of [our could | *

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have 40 fish in their freezer and
slill be legal.

While this possession limit
change applies only to fresh
water fish, Warris said the federal
Department of Fisherics and
Oceans was considering parallel
regulations for salmon.

The possession limit change is
one of seven proposed by the
Fisheries branch.

While intentional snagging of
fish is already prohibited, anglers
have in the past been allowed to
keep fish they’d accidentally
snagged. The new regulation
would require even these io be
released in future. ,

Up until now anglers fishing
alone in a boat on a lake, unlike
those on the shore or rivers, have
been allowed to use two lines. It
is proposed to end that exemption
from the single line only rule.

And anglers will no longer be
able to use more than one hooked
lure on a line.

Warris said there had becn an

ongoing argument about the use
of dropper flies. That method of
fishing uses two flics on a single
line to simulate the predator-prey
scenario, she explained,

For example, an angler would
rig a dragonfly lure above a wet
fly, cach with a hook. While
some Oy fishermen had argued
thal gave the fish a choice of
which lure to go after, Waris
said some anglers said the meth-
od made it possible to ‘catch two
fish at once.

The new regulation would al-
low only one piece of ‘terminal
tackle’’ — a hooked lure — per
line. However, a single lure with
mote than one hook would still be
considered as one piece of termi-
naltackle,

Anyone wishing to comment on
the proposed changes has until
Jan. 31, 1995 to do so,

Warris said any changes would
come into effect when the next
regulation synopsis was pub-
lished in Apiil of 1996,

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