National Parks of Canada Fishing Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1120)

23 No person shall fish for or have in his possession in a park any salmon fry, parr, smolt or spent salmon, also known as slink, black or kelt salmon.

• 24 (1) No person shall use for bait or have in his possession in a park live fish eggs or live minnows.

• (2) No person shall use or have in possession for use as bait live or dead fish or any parts thereof

  • (a) in Jasper, Banff, Waterton Lakes, Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, Mount Revelstoke, Prince Albert, Riding Mountain, Wood Buffalo or La Mauricie National Park of Canada;

  • (b) in Kluane National Park of Canada or in Kluane National Park Reserve of Canada; or

  • (c) in Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada.

• (3) No person shall use for bait, or be in possession of, dead fish eggs in La Mauricie, Wood Buffalo, Prince Albert or Riding Mountain National Park of Canada.

• (4) No person shall use any natural bait or any chemical attractant in any park waters set out in an item of Schedule VII.

24.1 No person shall fish for soft-shell clams within Kejimkujik or Kouchibouguac National Park of Canada, except through the use of their hands or hand tools.

25 Unless authorized by a superintendent, no person shall place in park waters or transfer between bodies of park waters live fish eggs or live fish.

• 26 (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall put any meat, bones, dead fish or offal, grain, dry feed or other food for fish in park waters.

• (2) A superintendent may designate park waters where offal from fish caught in those park waters is permitted to be put.

27 No person hired or employed in a park as a boatman or fishing guide shall fish in park waters while carrying out the duties for which that person was hired or employed.

• 28 (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall, when fishing, swimming or diving in park waters, have in his possession a spear, spear-gun or any underwater equipment that may be used for fishing.

• (2) A person diving in park waters may have in his possession underwater equipment that facilitates diving.

29 Unless authorized by a superintendent, no person shall obstruct or alter any park waters in such manner as to prevent, obstruct or redirect the free passage of fish.

• 29.1 (1) For the purposes of this section, a fish-counting fence means a structure placed in park waters by a superintendent for the purpose of capturing fish or controlling the movement of fish in those waters.

• (2) No person shall disturb or tamper with a fish-counting fence.

• (3) No person shall fish within 100 metres of a fish-counting fence.

30 Unless authorized by a superintendent, no person shall sell, offer for sale, trade or barter any fish caught in park waters.

31 No person who has caught, in park waters, a fish suitable for human consumption shall allow that fish to spoil or otherwise be wasted.

31.1 No person shall harass, disturb or chase, or attempt to harass, disturb or chase fish in park waters by throwing stones or by any means other than fishing.

32 [Repealed, SOR/99-352, s. 15]

33 These Regulations do not apply to a person authorized by a superintendent carry out functions related to fisheries management, investigation or research in a park while the person is engaged in carrying out such functions.

33.1 Notwithstanding section 15 and subsection 28(1), but subject to section 9, in Kouchibouguac National Park of Canada, a person may fish for American eel by means of a spear held in the hand.

• 34 (1) Every person who engages in ice fishing in park waters shall keep any fish, offal, refuse and deleterious substances in containers suitable for their temporary storage and shall remove the containers at the end of each day of fishing from any area in which the person has been fishing.

• (2) Where, in any park waters, ice conditions are unsafe for ice-fishing, a superintendent may, by notice in writing, prohibit ice-fishing in any such waters.

• (3) Every notice issued pursuant to subsection (2) shall contain a description of the park waters in respect of which the notice is issued and shall be posted by the superintendent in a conspicuous place in the park.

• (4) Where a notice is issued pursuant to subsection (2), no person shall ice-fish in any park waters described in that notice.

• (5) No person shall engage in ice fishing in any flowing waters in Banff National Park of Canada.

• (6) No person shall engage in ice fishing in any waters in Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada unless otherwise indicated by a notice posted by the superintendent in accordance with section 35.

• 35 (1) Notwithstanding sections 3 and 10 and Schedule II, a superintendent may, by notice in writing, during an open season close any park waters to fishing or restrict the extent of fishing in such waters where it is necessary to do so for the protection, conservation and management of fish in those waters.

• (2) Every notice issued pursuant to subsection (1) shall contain a description of park waters in respect of which the notice is issued and shall be posted by the superintendent in conspicuous places in the park.

• (3) Where a notice is issued pursuant to subsection (1), no person shall

  • (a) fish in any park waters described in that notice, where the notice closes those park waters to fishing; and

  • (b) exceed the extent of fishing set out in the notice, where the notice restricts the extent of fishing in any park waters.

36 Every person shall, when fishing in park waters or when in possession of fishing equipment or bait or any fish in a park, on request by a superintendent or park warden, produce the fishing equipment or bait or the fish for examination.

37 Every person who fishes in Banff, Waterton Lakes, Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, Jasper or Mount Revelstoke National Park of Canada shall, in the manner set out in a notice posted by the superintendent at a park wardens’ office, a park information booth or any park entrance,

• (a) register the person’s catch of fish;

• (b) maintain a record of the person’s catch of fish; and

• (c) submit that record to a park warden.