Fish Health Protection Regulations
C.R.C., c. 812
FISHERIES ACT
Regulations Respecting the Protection of Health of Fish
SHORT TITLE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fish Health Protection Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
2. In these Regulations,
“approved” means approved by the Minister; (approuvé)
“certificate” means a certificate issued in accordance with section 6; (certificat)
“cultured fish” means a fish listed in Schedule I that is propagated by man in a fish culture facility and includes the eggs of such fish; (poisson d’élevage)
“fish health official” means a person approved to inspect fish and fish sources for the purposes of these Regulations; (inspecteur sanitaire des poissons)
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“local fish health officer” means a person approved as a local fish health officer in charge of the administration and enforcement of these Regulations; (agent local de protection de la santé du poisson)
“Minister” means the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans; (ministre)
“wild fish” means a fish listed in Schedule I, other than a fish propagated by man in a fish culture facility. (poisson sauvage)
PROHIBITION
3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to eviscerated cultured fish.
SOR/92-196, s. 1.
PERMITS
4. Subject to section 5, a local fish health officer for a province may issue, to a person who applies for one, an
SOR/97-392, s. 1(E)。
5. No
(a) the certificate indicates that no disease or disease agent listed in Schedules II to IV was detected; or
(b) the local fish health officer is satisfied that none of the detected diseases or disease agents indicated on the certificate will be harmful to the conservation and protection of fish in the province of
SOR/97-392, s. 2.
CERTIFICATES
6. A certificate required pursuant to section 5 is issued by a fish health official and
(a) certifies that the source of the fish was inspected in the approved manner; and
(b) indicates which, if any, of the diseases or disease agents listed in Schedules II to IV were detected during the inspection or inspections, as the case may be.
SOR/97-392, s. 2.
SCHEDULE I
(s. 2)
FISH
All species and hybrids derived from species of fish belonging to the family Salmonidae, including the following genera:
Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp
Danube salmon and Taimens Hucho spp
Atlantic salmon Salmo spp
Trout Salmo spp
Char Salvelinus spp
Grayling Thymallus spp
Lenok Brachymystax spp
Inconnus Stenodus spp
Whitefish Coregonus spp
Whitefish Prosopium spp
Ayu Plecoglossus spp
SCHEDULE II
(s. 6)
DISEASES or DISEASE AGENTS FOUND IN LIVE FISH or THEIR SOURCE
1. Any filterable replicating agent capable of causing cytopathic effects in the cell lines of fish specified by the Minister, including but not limited to
(a) Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (Egtved) (Egtved virus, VHSV)
(b) Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHNV)
(c) Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPNV)
2. Whirling Disease (Myxobolus cerebralis)
3. Ceratomyxosis (Ceratomyxa shasta)
4. Furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida)
5. [Revoked, SOR/87-645, s. 1]
6. Enteric Redmouth Disease (Yersinia ruckeri)
SOR/87-645, s. 1;SOR/92-196, s. 2;SOR/97-392, s. 3.
SCHEDULE III
(s. 6)
DISEASES or DISEASE AGENTS FOUND IN DEAD FISH or THEIR SOURCE
1. Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (Egtved) (Egtved virus, VHSV)
2. Whirling Disease (Myxobolus cerebralis)
SOR/92-196, s. 3.
SCHEDULE IV
(ss. 5 and 6)
DISEASES or DISEASE AGENTS FOUND IN LIVE FISH or THEIR SOURCE
1. Myxobacterial infections
2. Motile Aeromonad Septicemia (Motile Aeromonas sp)
3. Pseudomonad Septicemia (Pseudomonas spp)
4. Vibriosis (Vibrio spp)
5. Bacterial Kidney Disease (Renibacterium salmoninarum)