Area 16 (Sechelt Inlet/Jervis Inlet/Texada Island)

Salmon Limits, Openings and Closures

  • Combined daily limit for all salmon species from all waters: 4
  • Coastwide daily limit for chinook: 2

Salmon Limits, Openings & Closures
Species Min Size Daily Limit Possession Limit Annual Limit Season Gear
Chinook
Additional info
62 cm 2 4 30 April 1 - March 31 Barbless Hook & Line
Chum 30 cm 4 8 N/A April 1 - March 31 Barbless Hook & Line
Hatchery Coho
(Marked)
30 cm 2 4 N/A June 1 - December 31 Barbless Hook & Line
Wild Coho 30 cm See below for in-season decisions. June 1 - December 31 Barbless Hook & Line
Pink 30 cm 4 8 N/A April 1 - March 31 Barbless Hook & Line
Sockeye 30 cm See below for in-season decisions. April 1 - March 31 Barbless Hook & Line
  • Only a single barbless hook may be used in the tidal portions of all streams.

Chinook

  • Keeping your chinook salmon? You must record (in ink) all retained catch on your Tidal Waters Sport Fishing Licence.

Coho

  • Hatchery coho (marked): Coho salmon with a healed scar in place of the adipose fin.
  • Coho in-season decisions will be posted here.

Sockeye

  • Sockeye in-season decisions will be posted here.

Finfish (Other than Salmon)

For finfish limits, check the species and limits table

Halibut: 2013 and 2013 coastwide limits plus closure and opening dates.

Lingcod in Areas: 12-1 to 12-13, 12-15 to 12-48, 13 to 19, 20-5 to 20-7 and 29-5.

Closed: Until April 30, 2013
Open: May 1 - Sept. 30, 2013
Limits, sizes and gear:
Daily limit: one
Possession limit: two
Size limit: 65cm
Annual limit: ten
Gear: angling (hook and line) and spear fishing while diving.

Rockfish in Areas: 12 to 19, 20-5 to 20-7 and 29-5

Closed: Until April 30, 2013
Open: May 1 - Sept. 30, 2013
Limits, sizes and gear:
Daily limit: one
Possession limit: two
Size limit: none
Annual limite: none
Gear: angling (hook and line) and spear fishing while diving.
(Rockfish and Yelloweye Rockfish in the aggregate)

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Shellfish

Crab restrictions

  • The waters of Gunboat Bay inside a line from the B.C. Hydro lines at the entrance to Gunboat Bay, are closed to harvesting crab, all year.
  • It is prohibited to use any gear other than ring nets or dip nets
    • in Pender Harbour, east of a line between Henry Point and Francis Peninsula; and
    • in the waters of Bargain Bay
      • inside a line that begins at 49°36.995′N 124°01.988′W [Bargain Narrows] then true south to 49°36.985′N 124°01.988′W [Bargain Narrows] then southerly following the shoreline to 49°36.315′N 124°02.238′W [Francis Peninsula] then to 49°36.447′N 124°01.901′W [Edgecombe I.] then to 49°36.527′N 124°01.695′W [Sechelt Peninsula] then northerly following the shoreline to the beginning point.

Due to sanitary contamination concerns, there is no harvesting of bivalve shellfish in:

  • Blind Bay
  • Buccaneer Bay
  • Churchill Bay
  • Gillies Bay
  • Halfmoon Bay
  • Home Bay
  • Lena Bay
  • Long Bay
  • North Nelson Island
  • Pender Harbour
  • Poise Island
  • Porpoise Bay
  • Saltery Bay
  • Secret Cove
  • Silversands Creek
  • Skwawka River
  • Squitty Bay
  • Thunder Bay
  • Vancouver Bay
  • unnamed bay east of Four Mile Point
  • unnamed bay in Skookumchuck Narrows
  • May 31 to September 30
    • Princess Louisa Inlet
    • Smuggler's Cove

All Species, Closures and Special Measures

Closed to fishing for all finfish, June 15 to September 15:

  • The waters at the mouth of Sakinaw Creek, east of a line between boundary signs on the north and south sides of Sakinaw Bay.

Rockfish Conservation Areas

RCAs are closed to all recreational fishing except:

  • invertebrates by hand picking or dive
  • crab by trap
  • shrimp/prawn by trap
  • smelt by gillnet