Fishery Notice

As a follow-up to Emergency Closure 14.ad, invoked on Friday, December 21, 
2018, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has confirmed that the 
overflow bypass of the primary cell of the Cumberland Lagoons, operated by the 
Village of Cumberland, has ceased and that no further occurrence has been 
reported since the original event. This area has remained closed for the 
minimum 21-day closure period required after the cessation of this unscheduled 
release of diluted raw sewage. 
 
As per Appendix VIII of the CSSP Manual of Operations, ECCC recommends that 
Emergency Closure 14.ad be revoked. Please be advised that Emergency Closure 
14.ad encompasses the northern portion of Section A of the Baynes Sound 
Conditional Management Plan (BSCMP). Section A remains closed under a rainfall 
trigger exceedance that occurred on January 3, 2019. Section A may revert to 
open status once verification sampling has been performed and has met the 
requirements outlined in the BSCMP.
 
Therefore, emergency closure 14.ad for bivalve shellfish, as described below, 
is now revoked.  All licensed decontamination fisheries suspended within 
Closure 14.1 may resume immediately.

Emergency Sanitary Closure 14.ad - 

The waters and intertidal foreshore of Baynes Sound inside a line commencing at 
a point on the Vancouver Island shore at the range marker located at the end of 
Amber Way Road at 49°37.40' north latitude and 124°54.51' west longitude, 
thence northeasterly to a point in water at 49°37.72' north latitude and 124°
54.07' west longitude, thence southeasterly to a point in water at 49°36.01' 
north latitude and 124°52.72' west longitude, thence southeasterly to a point 
in water at 49°35.82' north latitude and 124°52.65' west longitude, thence 
southwesterly to a point of land at 49°35.61' north latitude and 124°53.24' 
west longitude.


Note that this notice does not describe other sanitary closures which may be in 
effect, or Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP, red tide) and other marine 
biotoxin closures.  Detailed bivalve shellfish closure information and maps are 
available at our website: 

Detailed bivalve shellfish closure information and maps are available at our 
website: 

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/contamination/index-eng.html

and at local DFO offices.

For more information contact a local DFO office or Elysha Gordon at 250-756-
7192.

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN0030
Sent January 11, 2019 at 1336

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