Kejimkujik Nationwide Park and Nationwide Historic Website
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Fishing has performed a big function traditionally in Kejimkujik, from the standard meals gathering of the Mi’kmaq to the guided fishing journeys of the resort period. Fishing continues to be an necessary exercise on this space. Kejimkujik’s rivers present glorious spring trout fishing.
Parks Canada strives to offer top quality angling experiences specializing in fish conservation, schooling, and delight of the park atmosphere. The fish administration program at Kejimkujik helps the safety and conduct of analysis in aquatic biodiversity, habitats, and pure processes.
Name 1-800-565-2224 to report angling violations (or different pure resource-related offences).
When can I fish within the park?
April 1 to August 31, 2022
Spring tenting for fishers
Spring tenting may be very restricted this yr (2022). Out there websites embody: Rogers Brook cabin, and backcountry websites 12, 13, and 14. The gate to Jakes Touchdown will likely be obtainable for boat entry.
Spring tenting is offered by self-registration from April 1 to Might 19, 2022.
Please telephone 902-682-2770 for updates and particulars.
Fishing laws
In 2018, Parks Canada confirmed the presence of the invasive Chain pickerel within the park’s aquatic ecosystem. Chain pickerel are a predatory fish that may have vital destructive results on freshwater ecosystems. In extra to preying immediately on Brook trout, additionally they out-compete trout for meals sources. For that reason, new Kejimkujik sport fishing guidelines had been launched in 2019 and proceed in 2022.
New guidelines:
- All non-invasive fish are catch and launch solely
- Necessary retention of invasive fish
- All sort out might solely embody one barbless hook
- No particular person shall use pure bait of any type, together with earthworms
Extra info is included within the Sportfish Administration and Safety info which comes together with your fishing allow.
Fishing allow
A Nationwide Park Fishing Allow is required to fish in Kejimkujik. That is fully impartial of a provincial fishing license.
You should purchase both a day by day allow or a seasonal allow.
This allow extends to accompanying youth below 16 years outdated.
See costs
The place do I get a fishing allow?
Kejimkujik fishing permits will likely be obtainable on the Customer Centre as of Might 21. Till then (and thru the season), permits will likely be obtainable on the following places:
- Mary Lake Residence {Hardware} (Caledonia)
- Milford Home (South Milford) (as of Might lengthy weekend)
- Lequille Nation Retailer (Lequille, close to Annapolis Royal)
- Woods Smart Outfitters (Oakhill, close to Bridgewater)
- Macpherson’s Sort out Store (Liverpool)
- The Path Store (Halifax)
What are my tasks as an angler at Kejimkujik?
Local weather change, pollution, intensive fishing, and the introduction of unique or invasive species threaten Kejimkujik’s freshwater fish populations. Brook trout are notably vulnerable to those threats and are a super indicator of the ecological integrity of the entire freshwater ecosystem. Parks Canada’s analysis and administration methods at Kejimkujik concentrate on sustaining a wholesome and viable Brook trout inhabitants all through Kejimkujik’s watersheds.
We ask anglers to take part in our fish administration program within the following methods:
- Observe all relevant fishing laws. Familiarize your self with the laws by studying our Sportfish Administration and Safety info included together with your fishing license. Copies can be found on the Customer Centre and at Jake’s Touchdown.
- Be our eyes on the Kejimkujik waterways! Assist us with our fish monitoring by protecting an eye fixed out for invasive species and tagged Brook trout. Details about species identification and spot a tagged trout are included together with your fishing license, in addition to an angler diary so you may report and report your findings.
How else can I assist?
Volunteer with us!
Keep tuned for a volunteer info session in early Might! Data: [email protected]
Return your Angler Diary.
Included with each fishing allow is an info bundle and Angler Diary so that you can report your hours spent and space fished, together with species and variety of fish caught. This info is invaluable to our fish administration program contributing considerably to our understanding of angling effort within the park, relative species abundance and can also be turning into a vital aspect of our invasive fish monitoring program.
Final yr the diaries captured 917 hours of effort that had beforehand gone unrecorded within the park. As a thanks, every returned diary receives a commemorative Kejimkujik Fish Administration Volunteer Researcher crest with a singular design every year so that you can gather and put on proudly. No coaching is required.
Assist with our Creel Census.
We’re all the time looking for skilled volunteer fly fishers to affix the Creel Census crew. Each 5 years, for a 3-year interval, a creel census is performed at Kejimkujik which helps to evaluate fish well being, and fish administration initiatives by measuring the abundance of Brook trout. 2022 is the primary yr of our 3-year Creel Census monitoring program.
We offer coaching and measuring tools for information assortment. The important thing measurements within the census are catch per unit effort, or what number of trout an skilled angler can catch in a single hour of fishing, so vital fly fishing expertise is crucial for volunteers. We additionally measure size and weight of a subset of Brook trout caught, this supplies us with an estimate of general fish well being and situation within the inhabitants.
anglers are inspired to attend an info session, held yearly in spring, or contact [email protected].