Fishery Notice

The 2018/2019 Pacific Herring Integrated Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP) has 
been approved by the Regional Director General, Pacific.

As in the 2018 season, the following process will be used to determine gear 
allocations, subject to further advice from the Herring Industry Advisory Board:

Coast-wide roe herring total allowable catch (TAC): 19,783 short tons (may be 
adjusted if additional conversions to Food and Bait)

Note: The roe herring fishery will occur in the Strait of Georgia only in 2019.

Gill Net:
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Strait of Georgia                     
11,472 short tons

Seine:
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Strait of Georgia (maximum of 8 pools)
8,311 short tons (may be adjusted if additional conversions to Food and Bait)

Seine Food and Bait Option: For 2019, Roe Herring seine licence eligibility 
holders may select to harvest in SOG Food and Bait fishery.  If this option is 
elected, the seine licences will not be eligible to participate in the 2019 Roe 
Herring fishery and will instead receive an additional 39.7658 tons quota on 
the designated existing Food and Bait (category ZM) licence.

Selection into the Food and Bait fishery for SOG is on a one way basis. Roe 
Herring licences that select the Food and Bait fishery will transfer 39.7658 
tons out of the Roe Herring seine fishery and into the Food and Bait fishery 
for that area. 

This process commenced December 7, 2018 and ends February 12, 2019. To date, 43 
licences have been converted to Food and Bait and an associated 1,709.93 short 
tons has been removed from the SOG Seine Quota.

Participation and (Pool total) Quota allocation will be based on the pools as 
submitted for SOG.

Further updates regarding catch targets and gear allocations for roe herring 
will be provided via fishery notice, when available.

Licence counts as of February 08, 2019, 15:00 hours are tabulated below.

Gill Net applications have been entered for the following areas:
        
AREA------------------------------IDEAL-----ENTERED
Strait of Georgia------------------1192---------148
Inactive-----------------------------75------------

Total------------------------------1192---------148*

Total number of gill net licences: 1267 
(55 gill net licences are inactive held by DFO inventory, 20 inactive for SOK 
fishery)

Seine applications have been entered for the following areas:
        
AREA------------------------------IDEAL-----ENTERED
Strait of Georgia-------------------209---------177
Food and Bait - Strait of Georgia----43----------43
Inactive------------------------------0------------  
       
Total-------------------------------209---------177

Total number of seine licences:     252  

UPDATE - IMPORTANT AMENDED DATES FOR THE ROE HERRING SEINE AND GILL NET 
LICENSING PROCESS:
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All deadlines are 16:00 hours on the date as stated below:

January 14, 2019: Seine and gill net licence renewal fee payment and pool 
selection process commences in NOLS;
January 31, 2019: Seine and gill net NOLS licence renewal fee payment deadline;
February 12, 2019: Seine selection into Food and Bait in SOG deadline;
February 13, 2019: Seine and gill net pool selection and designation deadline;
February 15, 2019: Target release date for Conditions of Licence, Licence 
Document & Quota, will be available for printing in NOLS.

PLEASE NOTE any changes or updates to these dates will be provided by way of 
fishery notice.

POOL DESIGNATION LISTS:
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Both gill net and seine pool designation lists are required to be submitted by 
the deadline of February 13, 2019 at 16:00 hours. 

The deadline for submitting the application form is February 13th, 2019. Please 
note that your form must contain the name of your Pool Captain. 

Failure to submit payment, application form or pooling information by February 
13th, 2019 will result in delay or loss of ability to participate in the 2019 
Roe Herring Fishery. 

If you require help paying the fee or completing the form, please call 1-877-
535-7307 and ask to speak to the Pacific Region.

PRINT LICENCE DOCUMENTS - Once pools and quota numbers are finalised, Licence 
documents, which will include Conditions of Licence, Pool list and Quota will 
be available for printing in your NOLS account. The target date is February 15, 
2019. Print all of the licence documents as instructed and attach to licence. 

PLEASE NOTE - Any changes or updates to these dates will be provided by way of 
fishery notice. If possible, submission of documents prior to the stated 
deadlines will assist the Pacific Fisheries Licensing Unit is issuing licences 
by the target date.

For more information on the licencing process:

PACIFIC FISHERY LICENCE UNIT
Tel: 1-877-535-7307 - ask for the PACIFIC REGION
E-mail: fishing-peche@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Mail: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 200-401 Burrard St., Vancouver BC V6C 3S4

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN0091
Sent February 8, 2019 at 1459

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