GSN-2010-033 places the waters of Charlottetown Harbour (including portions of West, North and Hillsborough Rivers) in a Closed Status. No harvesting or relaying of any kind is permitted. This is a result of a WWTP (Waste Water Treatment Plant) Overflow.
Shellfish Closures Website:
http://www2.glf.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/shellfish-coquillages/map-carte.asp?Language=en

CONTAMINATED FISHERIES
PROHIBITION ORDER NO. GSN-2010-033


WHEREAS the Regional Director General of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for the Gulf Region has reason to believe that fish of the species set out in section 2 of the annexed order, in the area described in the Schedule to that order, are contaminated;

THEREFORE, the Regional Director General for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for the Gulf Region pursuant to subsection 3(1) of the Management of Contaminated Fisheries Regulations, made by Order in Council P.C. 1990-1121 of June 14, 1990*, hereby revokes the Contaminated Fisheries Prohibition Order No. GSN-2010-031 issued August 3, 2010, and issues the annexed Order prohibiting fishing for contaminated fish.
Issued at Moncton, New Brunswick, on August 27, 2010.

__________________ Serge Thériault
Regional Director General
Gulf Region

 

* SOR/90-351, 1990 Canada Gazette Part II, p. 2489

CONTAMINATED FISHERIES
PROHIBITION ORDER NO. GSN-2010-033


ORDER PROHIBITING FISHING FOR CONTAMINATED FISH


Short Title


1. This order may be cited as the Contaminated Fisheries
Prohibition Order No. GSN-2010-033.

 

Prohibition


2. Subject to subsection 3(2) of the Management of Contaminated Fisheries Regulations, no person shall, in the area described in the schedule, fish for bivalve molluscs including bay scallops.

 

Coming into Force

3. This Order shall come into force on the date of signature and remains in force unless otherwise revoked.

CONTAMINATED FISHERIES
PROHIBITION ORDER NO. GSN-2010-033

 

SCHEDULE

AREA

The following areas within or adjacent to Queens County, Prince Edward Island:


Charlottetown Harbour inside a line drawn from grid reference 490849 5115656 to grid reference 490040 5115295 then from grid reference 486163 5116042 to grid reference 485581 5117512 then from grid reference 487592 5120121 to grid reference 488303 5120389 then from grid reference 494422 5124660 to grid reference 495060 5123210. (Refer to map Charlottetown 11 L/3).


Note: When the boundary of an area is expressed in grid references, those grid references are based on the Universal Transverse Mercator Grid system set out on the National Topographic Series Map, Scale 1:50,000 published by the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (North American Datum 1983).

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE

The Regional Director General for the Gulf Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, hereby gives notice that the area listed below in the province of Prince Edward Island is closed for fishing of any bivalve molluscs including bay scallops:


Charlottetown Harbour inside a line drawn from grid reference 490849 5115656 to grid reference 490040 5115295 then from grid reference 486163 5116042 to grid reference 485581 5117512 then from grid reference 487592 5120121 to grid reference 488303 5120389 then from grid reference 494422 5124660 to grid reference 495060 5123210. (Refer to map Charlottetown 11 L/3).


Note: When the boundary of an area is expressed in grid references, those grid references are based on the Universal Transverse Mercator Grid System set out in the National Topographic Series Map, Scale 1:50,000 published by the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (North American Datum 1983).

Refer to Contaminated Fisheries Prohibition Order No. GSN-2010-033 issued on August 27, 2010, or contact your local Fishery Officer for further information or visit the Web site of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Gulf Region, under Orders Registry, at the following address: http://www2.glf.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fam-gpa/cp/ord/index-e.php.

Contaminated Fisheries Prohibition Order No. GSN-2010-033 comes into force on August 27, 2010.

Contaminated Fisheries Prohibition Order No. GSN-2010-031 is revoked.

 

Serge Thériault
Regional Director General
Gulf Region