Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations — 2
2 (1) In these Regulations, Act means the Fisheries Act ; ( Loi ) angling means fishing with a line to which one or more hooks are attached and that is held in the hand or attached to a rod that is held in the hand or closely attended; ( pêche à la ligne ou à la ligne ) artificial fly means a single hook, a double hook or two single hooks that are dressed with materials likely to attract fish and to which no weight, spinning device or natural bait is attached; ( mouche artificielle ) bag net means a net (a) that is attached to stakes or buoys, (b) the bag of which floats with the tide or current, and (c) that is used to catch fish without enmeshing them; ( filet à poche ) brook trout includes any hybrid of brook trout, but does not include splake; ( omble de fontaine ) clams includes bar clams, bay quahaugs, razor clams and soft-shell clams; ( clams ) day means a calendar day; ( jour ou journée ) Department means the Department of Fisheries and Oceans; ( ministère ) dip net means a bag-like net that is (a) fixed to a frame to which a handle is attached, and (b) manipulated by hand to catch fish without enmeshing them; ( épuisette ) drag rake means a device used in fishing for shellfish that is towed along the bed of the water by a vessel, but does not include a hydraulic device or a mechanical device; ( râteau traînant ) drift net means a gill net that drifts in the water, whether or not it is attached to a vessel, and includes a gill net that is not anchored at both ends; ( filet dérivant ) foreign fishing vessel has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act ; ( bateau de pêche étranger ) gill net means a net by which fish are caught by being enmeshed and that does not enclose an area of water; ( filet maillant ) hook , in relation to angling, means a single, double or treble hook, with or without barbs, on one shank or shaft; ( hameçon ) hydraulic device means a device used in fishing for shellfish whereby the shellfish are lifted from the bed of the water by the use of water under pressure; ( dispositif hydraulique ) Indian food fishing [Repealed, SOR/93-335, s. 1] inland waters means (a) all waters of a river, stream or brook set out in column I of an item of Schedule II that are upstream of the boundary or reference point, as the case may be, set out in column II of that item, including any waters tributary thereto that are upstream of that boundary or reference point, and (b) in any case not referred to in paragraph (a), all waters that are upstream of the low-water mark at the time of low water as set out in the Canadian Tide and Current Tables published by the Department; ( eaux intérieures ) jigging means fishing by manipulating one or more hooks so as to pierce a fish in any part of its body instead of luring the fish to take the hook or hooks into its mouth; ( pêche à la turlutte ) landlocked salmon means non-anadromous salmon; ( ouananiche ) leased oyster area means an area for which a special licence or lease has been granted to a person under section 58 or 59 of the Act for the purpose of planting or forming oyster beds or for the cultivation and production of oysters; ( secteur ostréicole amodié ) length means (a) in relation to an eel, the distance measured in a straight line from the tip of the nose to the tip of the caudal fin, (b) in relation to a salmon or a landlocked salmon, the distance measured in a straight line from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail, (c) in relation to a shellfish, the distance measured in a straight line through the longest part of the shell, and (d) in relation to any other fish referred to in these Regulations, the distance measured in a straight line from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail; ( longueur ) longline means a line to which two 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-