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Pinch the barbs of your salmon flies!!Friday, May 23, 2008 Pinch the barbs of your salmon flies!!
Pinched barbed hooks now mandatory for Atlantic Salmon angling in Nova Scotia in 2008.
The Nova Scotia Salmon Association has been lobbying for the use of pinched barbed (barbless) hooks while fishing for Atlantic Salmon for the past four years. Meetings through the Zone Management Committee Meetings and consultations with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has resulted in this becoming a regulation commencing this year.
Commencing June 1st, 2008, pinched barbs will be mandatory, on the fly you are fishing with, in Salmon Fishing Areas 19 (Eastern Cape Breton), 20 (Eastern Nova Scotia) and 21 (Southern Nova Scotia).
Commencing October 1st, 2008, pinched barbs will be mandatory, on the fly you are fishing with, in Salmon Fishing Area 18 (Western Cape Breton and Northern Nova Scotia).
NSSA also successfully lobbied for and got a reduction from eight tags to four tags, for retention of Atlantic Salmon, here in Nova Scotia. This regulation will also take effect for the 2008 angling season.
This will make it easier to safely release these wonderful fish unharmed and to ensure they return to spawn again.
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