Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations — 2
o or more hooks are attached at intervals and that is anchored to the bed of the water; ( palangre ) mechanical device means any device or equipment used in fishing for shellfish that is not (a) hand-held, (b) a drag rake, or (c) a hydraulic device; ( dispositif mécanique ) mesh size has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Atlantic Fishery Regulations, 1985 ; ( maillage ) open season means a period of time during which no close time applies; ( période d’ouverture ) province means, except in the definition salmon tag , the province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island; ( province ) public oyster-fishing area means any area that is not a leased oyster area; ( gisement public de pêche des huîtres ) recreational fishing means fishing solely for pleasure or fishing to catch fish solely for personal use; ( pêche récréative ) Regional Director-General [Repealed, SOR/2001-452, s. 1] registration card means a fisher’s registration card or a vessel registration card issued under section 5 or under the Atlantic Fishery Regulations, 1985 ; ( carte d’enregistrement ) salmon means anadromous salmon; ( saumon ) salmon tag means a tag that is designed to be affixed to a salmon to identify the source and year of capture of the salmon and that (a) is issued with a licence, written permission or other document under the authority of which the salmon was caught that is issued under (i) the Act or the regulations made thereunder, (ii) the National Parks Act or the regulations made thereunder, (iii) an Act of the legislature of a province of Canada or the regulations made thereunder, or (iv) the laws of any country other than Canada, (b) is legible, and (c) has not been tampered with; ( étiquette à saumon ) set line means a line that is not attached to a rod or held in the hand and to which only one hook with a single point or barb is attached; ( ligne fixe ) shellfish means clams, mussels and oysters; ( mollusques et crustacés ) splake means a trout that is a cross between a male brook trout and a female lake trout; ( truite moulac ) sport fish means smallmouth bass, landlocked salmon, salmon and trout; ( poisson de sport ) square net means a net made of wire or twine and attached to a pole that is manipulated on a pivot so as to lower and raise the net in the water to catch fish without enmeshing them; ( carrelet ) tidal waters means, in relation to a county or province, all waters, other than inland waters, that are (a) within that county or province, or (b) adjacent to that county or province and closer to that county or province than to any other county or province; ( eaux à marée ) trap net means a net that is set so as to enclose an area of water into which fish are guided through an opening or openings by one or more leaders, including what is commonly referred to as a box net but not including an eel trap; ( trappe en filet ) trout means Arctic char, brook trout, brown trout, lake trout and rainbow trout; ( truite ) weir has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Atlantic Fishery Regulations, 1985 ; ( bordigue ) whitefish means lake whitefish and round whitefish. ( corégone ) (2) A reference in these Regulations to a species or group of species of fish by its common name as set out in column I of an item of Schedule I shall be construed as a reference to the species or group of species whose scientific name is set out in column II that item. (3) A reference in these Regulations to the weight of fish shall be construed as a reference to the weight of the fish in a completely unprocessed state. (4) A reference in these Regulations to a grid reference is a grid reference based on the Universal Transverse Mercator Grid system expressed in the North American Datum 1927 (NAD 27) used in the National Topographic Series Maps, Scale 1:50,000, published by the Department of Natural Resources. (5) Unless otherwise provided or a contrary intention appears, a reference in these Regulations to a river, stream or brook b