Maritimes Region

James Nelson Amero

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Soft Shell Clam

$700.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of seized fishing equipment.

2024-09-18

Michael Wayne Nicholson

Fisheries Act, s33

No person shall purchase, sell or possess any fish that has been caught in contravention of this Act or the regulations.

Halibut

$500.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of seized fishing equipment.

2024-09-13

Craig Conley

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Scallop

$1,500.00 Fine

2024-09-12

Blair W. Shaw

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Halibut

$5,000.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of the catch valued at $13,767.75.

2024-09-11

Shane Patrick Leblanc

Fisheries Act, s24

Seines, nets or other fishing apparatus shall not be set or used in such a manner or in such a place that they or any equipment that is attached to any of them obstructs the navigation of boats and vessels and no boats or vessels shall destroy or wantonly injure in any way seines, nets or other fishing apparatus lawfully set or used or any equipment that is attached to any of them.

Lobster

$1,000.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of two (2) seized lobster traps.

2024-09-10

Arnold Forest

Fisheries Act, s24

Seines, nets or other fishing apparatus shall not be set or used in such a manner or in such a place that they or any equipment that is attached to any of them obstructs the navigation of boats and vessels and no boats or vessels shall destroy or wantonly injure in any way seines, nets or other fishing apparatus lawfully set or used or any equipment that is attached to any of them.

Lobster

$2,000.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of eight (8) seized lobster traps.

2024-09-10

Gary Douglas Lohnes

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s49.01(b)

A person engaged in recreational fishing for mackerel in Mackerel Fishing Areas 1 to 21 shall not have in their possession any mackerel that is less than 26.8 cm in length.

Mackerel

$700.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of the seized mackerel (42), rod/reel and bucket.

2024-09-04

Robert Clinch

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s14(1)(b)

Fishing for a species without being authorized.

Lobster

$1,500.00 Fine

2024-08-28

Shelby Douglas Preston Andrews

Fisheries Act, s9.2

Every person or holder to whom a fisheries management order applies shall comply with it.

Eel
(Elver)

$5,000.00 Fine

2024-08-15

Shawn Stephen Foster

Management of Contaminated Fisheries Regulations, s3(2)

Notwithstanding any other regulations made under the Fisheries Act, where a Regional Director General issues an order under subsection (1) in respect of an area, no person shall, in that area, fish for or catch and retain any species of fish specified in the order unless: (a) the person is the holder of a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying that licence; or (b) the person is named in a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying a copy of that licence.

Soft Shell Clams

$2,000.00 Fine

Plus two (2) year prohibition from harvesting clams in the areas of Bar Road North and South.

2024-08-14

Michael Allen Frost

Management of Contaminated Fisheries Regulations, s3(2)

Notwithstanding any other regulations made under the Fisheries Act, where a Regional Director General issues an order under subsection (1) in respect of an area, no person shall, in that area, fish for or catch and retain any species of fish specified in the order unless: (a) the person is the holder of a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying that licence; or (b) the person is named in a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying a copy of that licence.

Soft Shell Clams

$2,000.00 Fine

Plus two (2) year prohibition from harvesting clams in the areas of Bar Road North and South.

2024-08-14

Cody Marshall Brenna

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$1,500.00 Fine

2024-07-29

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$2,500.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of the catch, crates, and totes.

2024-07-29

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$1,000.00 Fine

2024-07-29

Christopher Peter Titus

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s14(1)(b)

Fishing for a species without being authorized.

Lobster

$500.00 Fine

2024-07-24

Trevor Sacobie

Fisheries Act, s9.2

Every person or holder to whom a fisheries management order applies shall comply with it.

Eel

$1,000.00 Fine

Plus an Order pursuant to Fisheries Act, s79.28(f) that Trevor Sacobie is prohibited from fishing for eels that are less than 10 cm in length (“elvers”) within the inland and tidal waters of New Brunswick for a period of one (1) year, commencing on July 17, 2024 and ending on July 17, 2025.

2024-07-17

Jeremy Goreham

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$7,500.00 Fine

2024-07-17

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$1,000.00 Fine

2024-07-17

Dwayne Goreham

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$7,500.00 Fine

2024-07-17

Jason Stanley Viner

Fishery (General) Regulations, s35(2)

Subject to subsection (3), no person shall buy, sell, trade, barter or offer to buy, sell, trade or barter any fish unless it was caught and retained under the authority of a licence issued for the purpose of commercial fishing, a licence issued under Part VII, a licence issued under the Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licences Regulations in which the Minister has authorized the sale of fish or an Excess Salmon to Spawning Requirement Licence issued under the Pacific Fishery Regulations, 1993.

Lobster

$25,000.00 Fine (pursuant to Fisheries Act, s78)

Plus $31,443.75 Fine (pursuant to Fisheries Act, s79)

Plus an Order pursuant to Fisheries Act, s79.2 requiring Jason Viner to report all commercial lobster transactions in excess of 50 pounds for a period of one year, and that for the same period that he have no direct or indirect contact with Mikhail John Randall Pictou.

2024-06-20

Philip Leslie Chetwynd

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Lobster

$3,000.00 Fine

2024-06-14

Harrison Merrell Gillis

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s57(1)(c)

No person shall, in a Lobster Fishing Area set out in column I of an item of Schedule XIV, during the close time set out in column II of that item, subject to section 58, have a lobster trap on board a vessel.

Lobster

$1,000.00 Fine

2024-05-23

Peter Saunders

Fisheries Act, s23

No one shall fish for, take, catch or kill fish in any water, along any beach or within any fishery described in any lease or licence, or place, use, draw or set therein any fishing gear or apparatus, except by permission of the occupant under the lease or licence for the time being, or shall disturb or injure any such fishery.

Lobster

$7,000.00 Fine

Plus a 2 week suspension of the 2024 Herring Season, and  to pay the victim $600.00 in gear replacement fees.

2024-05-15

Bernard Douglas MacIntyre

Fisheries Act, s79(6)(a)

Every person convicted of an offence under this Act who subsequently contravenes an order made under section 79.2 or 79.3 is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a punishment not exceeding the maximum punishment to which a person is liable on summary conviction for the original offence.

N/A

$100.00 Fine

Plus he is prohibited from having his boat ("Parker & Cole") within any of the waters of Nova Scotia; and
any rights and privileges associated with his personal fishing licence is suspended
for a period of four (4) consecutive months, commencing on August 1, 2024 @ 00:01 hours and concluding on November 30, 2024 @23:59 hours.

2024-05-01

Travis Devine

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Halibut

$2,000.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of half the value of the catch, being $2,374.75.

2024-04-24

Adrien Flynn

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s57(1)(a)

Fishing for Lobster during a closed time.

Lobster

$15,000.00 Fine

Plus forfeiture of 13 lobster traps and associated rope and buoy, and a prohibition from fishing for lobster within Lobster Fishing Areas 36, 37 and 38 together with the Grey Zone, for a period of five (5) years commencing April 23, 2024.

2024-04-22

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Lobster

$1,500.00 Fine

2024-04-22

Jason Leblanc

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s57(1)(a)

Fishing for Lobster during a closed time.

Lobster

$2,000.00 Fine

2024-04-22

Rejean Deveau

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s57(1)(a)

Fishing for Lobster during a closed time.

Lobster

$2,000.00 Fine

2024-04-22

Ross David Morrell

Management of Contaminated Fisheries Regulations, s3(2)

Notwithstanding any other regulations made under the Fisheries Act, where a Regional Director General issues an order under subsection (1) in respect of an area, no person shall, in that area, fish for or catch and retain any species of fish specified in the order unless: (a) the person is the holder of a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying that licence; or (b) the person is named in a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying a copy of that licence.

Bar Clam

$600.00 Fine

2024-04-22

Leroy Joseph Morrell

Management of Contaminated Fisheries Regulations, s3(2)

Notwithstanding any other regulations made under the Fisheries Act, where a Regional Director General issues an order under subsection (1) in respect of an area, no person shall, in that area, fish for or catch and retain any species of fish specified in the order unless: (a) the person is the holder of a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying that licence; or (b) the person is named in a licence issued under subsection 4(1) and is carrying a copy of that licence.

Bar Clam

$600.00 Fine

2024-04-22

Philip Jackie Nickerson

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Lobster

$10,000.00 Fine

2024-04-18

Fisheries Act, s62

No person shall obstruct or hinder a fishery officer, a fishery guardian or an inspector who is carrying out duties or functions under this Act.

Lobster

$3,000.00 Fine

2024-04-18

Oliver Cote

Fishery (General) Regulations, s27(2)

The vessel registration number or name referred to in subsection (1) shall be painted on or otherwise securely affixed to a tag, float or buoy attached to the gear and be legible and readily visible at all times without the necessity of raising the gear from the water or, where the water is ice covered, without the necessity of removing any snow or ice.

Lobster

$4,000.00 Fine

2024-04-10

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Lobster

$4,000.00 Fine

Plus a prohibition total of 15 days starting from May 17, 2025 ending on May 31, 2025 to fish any lobster fishing licence or naming him as an operator. Oliver Cote is also prohibited from leasing, acquiring and/or transferring his lobster fishing licence from the same period as stated below and a  personal fisher registration (PFR) card issued to Oliver Cote is hereby suspended for the same period.

2024-04-10

Atlantic Fishery Regulations, s61.1(a)(ii)

In Lobster Fishing Areas 1 to 22 and 27 to 41, no person shall fish with, or have on board a vessel, a lobster trap unless the trap has in one exterior wall of each parlour an escape panel that provides, when removed, an unobstructed opening not less than 89 mm in height and 152 mm in width and that is fastened to the lobster trap with uncoated ferrous metal wire, other than of stainless steel, that does not exceed 1.6 mm in diameter.

Lobster

$1,000.00 Fine

2024-04-10

Clark Alan Donaldson   

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$4,000.00 Fine

2024-04-09

Milton James D’Eon 

Fisheries Act, s43.4(1)

Every person acting under the authority of a permission referred to in section 4 or a lease or licence, whether issued under this Act or provincial legislation, shall comply with any terms and conditions of the permission, lease or licence that are imposed under the authority of this Act.

Groundfish

$2,000.00 Fine

2024-04-09