Fishery Notice

Category(s):
COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Troll
Subject:
FN1009-COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Area F Troll - Fishing Boundary Adjustment Sept 14, 2015


This notice is to advise Area F Troll of the southern boundary change on the
west side of Haida Gwaii down Cape Freeman as well as the removal of the ribbon 
boundary along the north side of Haida Gwaii 

Effective at 00:01 hours Monday, September 14, 2015, the following Management 
Areas will be open to trolling for chinook, coho, and pink salmon until further 
notice:

Management Area 101,

Subareas 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-5 and 1-7. 

Subareas 2-38, 2-48, 2-49, 2-68, 2-69, 2-78, 2-79, 2-86, 2-88, 2-92, 2-97 and 2-
98.

That portion of Management Area 142, north of 52 degrees 9 minutes North 
latitude and outside the Frederick Island Rockfish Conservation 
Area.                              

The Frederick Island Rockfish Conservation Area remains closed to hook and line 
fisheries (see below for description).

Those portions of Subareas 1-1, 101-1 and 142-2 that lies outside a line that: 
begins at 53 deg 56.246 min N and 133 deg 17.500 min W then true East to 53 deg 
56. 246 min N and 133 deg 11.862 min W (Hope Point) then to 53 deg 57.144 min N 
and 133 deg 07.938 min W (Graham Island) then southerly following the shoreline 
of Graham Island to the intersection with 53 deg 47.0 min north latitude, then 
to 53 deg 47.000 min N and 133 deg 10.00 min W thence to the beginning point.

VO#:2015-NCTR-07 will be in effect beginning at 0001h, September 14, 2015.
           
             
FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Peter Katinic
Area F Troll Manager
250-559-8330

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN1009
Sent September 10, 2015 at 1236