Prohibited Areas
Be advised that permanent bivalve fishing prohibited areas (no harvesting for any purpose) are in place in the following areas:
within 300 m of industrial, municipal and sewage treatment plant outfall discharges;
within a minimum 125 m of marinas, wharves, finfish net pens, float homes
or other floating living accommodation facilities, including live aboard
boats. (Note: floating living accommodation associated with shellfish
aquaculture tenures and an approved zero discharge waste management may
have a reduced prohibited harvest zone starting in 2005. Finfish net
pens may have a reduced prohibited shellfish harvest zone with an
approved integrated multi-trophic aquaculture management plan
starting in 2009).
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Click the Closure Number label on the map, or use
the table below Also check for SHELLFISH BIOTOXIN closures in Area 20. |
| Temporary Emergency Contamination Closures | |
| Closure 20.cc | Sooke River Estuary - Emergency Closure (Revoked - March 2011) |
| Closure 20.bb | Sooke Bay - Temporary Emergency Closure (wastewater treatment plant overflow) (Revoked - January 2011) |
| Closure 20.1 | Sooke Harbour and Sooke Basin |
| Closure 20.2 | Pedder Bay |
| Closure 20.3 | Becher Bay |
| Closure 20.4 | Port Renfrew (New closure - November 2010) |