ontario regulation 409/04

made under the

fish and wildlife conservation act, 1997

Made: December 16, 2004
Filed: December 16, 2004
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: January 1, 2005

Amending O. Reg. 664/98

(Fish Licensing)

1. Section 37 of Ontario Regulation 664/98 is revoked and the following substituted:

37. (1) In this section,

“tourist operator” means a person who provides ice hut accommodations for the purpose of fishing to anglers for a fee.

(2) The Minister may issue a licence to a tourist operator to place one or more ice fishing huts on the ice of the water known as Lake Nipissing in the territorial districts of Nipissing, Parry Sound and Sudbury.

(3) A person shall not place or occupy, or attempt to place or occupy, for the purpose of fishing, an ice fishing hut on the ice of any of the waters described in Schedule E unless one of the following numbers is displayed on the outside of the ice fishing hut in numerals at least two and one-half inches high:

1. For ice fishing huts on Lake Nipissing belonging to a tourist operator, the number assigned to the ice fishing hut on the licence issued to the tourist operator under subsection (2).

2. For all other ice fishing huts, the number assigned by the Minister to the owner of the ice fishing hut.

(4) The prohibition in paragraph 2 of subsection (3) does not apply with respect to a tent made of cloth or synthetic fabric that has a basal area of two square metres or less when erected.

Made by:

David James Ramsay

Minister of Natural Resources

Date made: December 16, 2004.