1. These Regulations may be cited as the Yukon Territory Fishery Regulations.

• 2. (1) In these Regulations,

  “Act”

  “Act”[Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 1]

  “Agreement”

  “Agreement” has the same meaning as in the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act; (Convention)

  “angling”

  “angling” means fishing by the use of a rod, line and hook, or a line and hook other than a set line; (pêche à la ligne)

  “angling licence”

  “angling licence” means a licence issued under these Regulations for the purposes of angling; (permis de pêche à la ligne)

  “artificial fly”

  “artificial fly” means a single hook that

  • (a) is dressed only with fur, feathers, textiles or tinsel wire or any combination thereof, and

  • (b) does not have a spinning device or any external weight attached to it; (mouche artificielle)

  “assistant licence”

  “assistant licence” means a licence issued under these Regulations that authorizes a person to engage in commercial or domestic fishing as a helper while in the presence and under the supervision of a person who holds a commercial fishing licence or a domestic fishing licence; (permis d’aide)

  “barbless hook”

  “barbless hook” includes a hook all the barbs of which have been compressed to be in complete contact with the shaft of the hook; (hameçon sans ardillon)

  “beneficiary”

  “beneficiary” means a person who is enrolled as a beneficiary under the Agreement; (bénéficiaire)

  “Canadian resident”

  “Canadian resident” means a person who ordinarily resides in Canada and who is not a Yukon resident; (résident canadien)

  “commercial fishing”

  “commercial fishing” means fishing for or catching fish all or any portion of which is intended to be sold, traded or bartered, but does not include fishing by a beneficiary within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region for subsistence usage; (pêche commerciale)

  “commercial fishing licence”

  “commercial fishing licence” means a licence issued under these Regulations for the purposes of commercial fishing; (permis de pêche commerciale)

  “Department”

  “Department” means the Department of Fisheries and Oceans; (ministère)

  “derby”

  “derby” means any sport fishing competition in which 25 or more persons participate; (concours)

  “dip net”

  “dip net” means a net that is hung on a ring or frame and that has a closed bottom; (épuisette)

  “domestic fishing”

  “domestic fishing” means fishing for or catching fish that is to be used solely for personal consumption by the person fishing for or catching the fish or by that person’s family but does not include

  • (a) sport fishing,

  • (b) [Repealed, SOR/93-339, s. 1]

  • (c) fishing by a beneficiary within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region for subsistence usage; (pêche à des fins domestiques)

  “domestic fishing licence”

  “domestic fishing licence” means a licence issued under these Regulations for the purposes of domestic fishing; (permis de pêche à des fins domestiques)

  “downrigger”

  “downrigger” means a line used in angling or to assist in angling that has a weight greater than 500 g attached to it; (lest automatique)

  “fillet”

  “fillet” means any piece of fish flesh; (filet)

  “fish farming”

  “fish farming” means the natural or artificial propagation of fish in any water authorized to be set apart for that purpose by the Minister under section 57 of the Fisheries Act. (aquaculture)

  “fish wheel”

  “fish wheel” means a stationary apparatus that is set in a river or stream and is composed of a wheel designed to rotate by means of water power and to catch fish in a series of baskets mounted around the circumference of the wheel; (tourniquet)

  “fishing boundary sign”

  “fishing boundary sign” means a white triangular marker that is comprised of three boards, each of which is at least 1.5 m in length and at least 12 cm in width; (borne de pêche)

  “freshwater fish”

  “freshwater fish” means any fish found in the Yukon Territory other than a fish of an anadromous stock of

  • (a) chum salmon,

  • (b) coho salmon,

  • (c) chinook salmon,

  • (d) pink salmon,

  • (e) sockeye salmon,

  • (f) rainbow trout,

  • (g) the subfamily Coregoninae, (whitefish and cisco) or

  • (h) Arctic char; (poisson d’eau douce)

  “game fish”

  “game fish” means any fish of a species set out in Schedule II; (poisson de sport)

  “gill net”

  “gill net” means a net that catches fish by enmeshing them but that does not enclose an area of water; (filet maillant)

  “hook”

  “hook” means a single-pointed or multiple-pointed hook on a common shaft and includes a hook on an artificial lure; (hameçon)

  “Indian”

  “Indian” has the same meaning as in the Indian Act; (Indien)

  “Indian food fish licence”

  “Indian food fish licence”[Repealed, SOR/93-339, s. 1]

  “Inuk”

  “Inuk” means a person who is a direct descendant of a person of the race of aborigines commonly known as Inuit; (Inuk)

  “Inuvialuit Settlement Region”

  “Inuvialuit Settlement Region” has the same meaning as in the Agreement; (région désignée)

  “length”

  “length” means, for the purposes of measuring a fish, the distance between the furthest anterior point of the head of the fish and the furthest posterior point of the caudal fin of the fish; (longueur)

  “mesh size”

  “mesh size” means the size of a single mesh of net determined by measuring, without straining the twine, the inside diagonal distance between the knots after immersion in water for not less than 1/2 hour; (maillage)

  “Minister”

  “Minister” means

  • (a) with respect to the administration of freshwater fisheries, the Executive Council Member responsible for Renewable Resources for the Yukon Territory, or

  • (b) in any other case, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans for Canada; (ministre)

  “monofilament”

  “monofilament” means any single filament that has more than 50 deniers and weighs more than 50 g per 9 000 m of filament; (monofil)

  “non-resident”

  “non-resident” means a person who is not a Yukon resident or a Canadian resident; (non-résident)

  “permanent resident”

  “permanent resident”[Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 1]

  “processed fish”

  “processed fish” means fish that has been canned, smoked, salted, cooked, pickled or dried; (poisson transformé)

  “qualified non-resident”

  “qualified non-resident” means, where Alaska has implemented an understanding with Yukon in respect of sport fishing licences, a person who

  • (a) holds a valid Alaska resident sport fishing licence, or

  • (b) has held a valid Alaska resident sport fishing licence within 12 months before making an application for a sport fishing licence under these Regulations; (non-résident admissible)

  “radio station”

  “radio station”[Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 1]

  “Regional Director”

  “Regional Director”[Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 1]

  “set line”

  “set line” means a line that is anchored to the bed of a lake or river and has attached to it a hook that is lying on the bed of the lake or river; (ligne fixe)

  “snagging”

  “snagging” means attempting to catch or catching a fish with a hook in any manner other than inducing it to take the hook in its mouth; (casaquer)

  “spear”

  “spear” includes a bow and arrow; (harpon)

  “sport fishing”

  “sport fishing” means fishing for recreational purposes by angling, using a dip net or using a set line; (pêche sportive)

  “sport fishing licence”

  “sport fishing licence” means a licence issued under these Regulations for the purpose of sport fishing; (permis de pêche sportive)

  “subsistence usage”

  “subsistence usage” has the same meaning as in paragraph (a) of the definition of this expression in the Agreement. (utilisation à des fins de subsistance)

  “trap net”

  “trap net” or “pound net”[Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 1]

  “trolling”

  “trolling” means fishing by means of a lure drawn behind a boat or other floating object; (pêche à la traîne)

  “Yukon resident”

  “Yukon resident” means a person who ordinarily resides in the Yukon Territory; (résident du Yukon)

  “Yukon River salmon licence”

  “Yukon River salmon licence” means a licence issued under these Regulations that authorizes a person to fish for salmon in the waters of the Yukon River. (permis de pêche du saumon du fleuve Yukon)

  • SOR/82-875, s. 1;
  • SOR/87-439, s. 1;
  • SOR/89-155, s. 1(F);
  • SOR/92-444, s. 1;
  • SOR/93-60, s. 1;
  • SOR/93-339, s. 1;
  • SOR/94-269, s. 1;
  • SOR/99-98, s. 1;
  • SOR/2001-324, s. 1;
  • SOR/2003-339, s. 1.

• (2) [Repealed, SOR/93-60, s. 1]