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Old 03-30-2023, 10:52 AM
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Has anyone seen or heard what’s happening with the 2023/2024 regulations for Alberta?

I asked at the Alberta environment booth at the Edmonton sportsman show and was greeted with “we hope to have something for April 1st”? I find it scary that in a province with very few fishing options that it seems we have no forward thinking conservation plans for our fishing populations.

It’s 2 days till the new season! Ridiculous!

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Old 03-30-2023, 02:18 PM
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Agreed. But they'll blame it on the printer.Which gets $$$$$$ for doing them.
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Old 03-30-2023, 02:23 PM
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Agreed. But they'll blame it on the printer.Which gets $$$$$$ for doing them.
Just because a vendor gets $$ for doing something doesn’t mean they prioritize that customer. A lot of government agencies send bids out for trucks or boats or snowmobile etc… once the contract is awarded, unless it specifically mentions a time frame they get put at the back of the line. Had a buddy wait for over 8 months to get his new snowmobile for work. Vendor got the $$ and since it was a govt bid they probably sold it at a bit of a discount, so there’s no real incentive to focus on getting the govt their item when there’s a line up of private sales waiting where the real $$ is made.
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Old 03-30-2023, 02:41 PM
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Not the first time they have been "late" What's the hurry?
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Old 03-30-2023, 02:42 PM
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I don't think the government works over the weekend, so if the 2023-24 reg won't come out by tomorrow, does that mean we could do whatever we want on April 1?
I'm pretty sure we could buy the license for 2023-24 season now. If the regulation is not in place, then we won't be able to violate any rules, since...there is no rules set.
I personally won't challenge it, but it is so funny to think about.
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Old 03-30-2023, 03:04 PM
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Buy your license and fish on till a set of rules that should accompany said license becomes publicly available. I'm pretty sure they will have them available on line at least by midnight tomorrow. Loopholes are loopholes, on rare occasions it's on the other foot.
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Old 03-30-2023, 03:41 PM
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It would be logical to assume the 2022 regulations being valid until the 2023 ones are posted.
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Old 03-30-2023, 04:19 PM
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ASSUMING is not admissible in court of law. Can't assume it's the status quo. Need a hard copy of the rules valid on 12:01am of April 1st 2023 to prove you CANT fish . They took my money and licensed me and provided receipt entitling me to legally sportfish without a set of rules to accompany said license. If they refused me a 2023 license based on insufficient or unavailable guidelines which I believe MUST be understood if not on your actual person while sportfishing then that's another story.
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Old 03-30-2023, 08:17 PM
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picked up our 2023 fishing license today and was told the regs will be a couple weeks at least
before they have copys to give out.
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Old 03-30-2023, 08:23 PM
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No excuse for 2023 regs to not be available online by April 1
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Old 03-31-2023, 07:27 AM
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Well a poor Province like Manitoba can have their fishing regs online I don't know why Alberta can't
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Old 03-31-2023, 08:24 AM
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Has anyone seen or heard what’s happening with the 2023/2024 regulations for Alberta?

I asked at the Alberta environment booth at the Edmonton sportsman show and was greeted with “we hope to have something for April 1st”? I find it scary that in a province with very few fishing options that it seems we have no forward thinking conservation plans for our fishing populations.

It’s 2 days till the new season! Ridiculous!

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Old 03-31-2023, 08:54 AM
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Well a poor Province like Manitoba can have their fishing regs online I don't know why Alberta can't
Thanks for posting .
This was my very first time i read their regs.
Some interesting facts I read that are different than ours .

All fish are measured with out pinching the tail .

I was unable to find the limits or length of fish for each lake but I did find that
Province wide all walleye over 55 must be released and all Lake trout over 65 must be released . Nice !
I kind of like that ,I wish Alberta had the same . But I would also include that that it would include all statues treaty indian fishermen also.

I also read a non- treaty indain person can not even help pull up a net or help clean or even touch a fish or big game like helping lifting a moose into a back of a truck that was taken by a treaty person . The most they can do is help transport it down the hwy.

I think Alberta needs more info in their regs so we we don't get caught just helping a guy pull a moose in his truck .

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Old 03-31-2023, 10:21 AM
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New regs are now up at mywildalberta.
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Thanks for posting .
This was my very first time i read their regs.
Some interesting facts I read that are different than ours .

All fish are measured with out pinching the tail .

I was unable to find the limits or length of fish for each lake but I did find that
Province wide all walleye over 55 must be released and all Lake trout over 65 must be released . Nice !
I kind of like that ,I wish Alberta had the same . But I would also include that that it would include all statues treaty indian fishermen also.

I also read a non- treaty indain person can not even help pull up a net or help clean or even touch a fish or big game like helping lifting a moose into a back of a truck that was taken by a treaty person . The most they can do is help transport it down the hwy.

I think Alberta needs more info in their regs so we we don't get caught just helping a guy pull a moose in his truck .
I'm pretty sure the rules are the same in Alberta as far as helping out a treaty First Nations or maytee on hunting or fishing you're not allowed to do much of anything I can't tell you how many times I've heard oh I went with this buddy that was treaty and we shot a moose anyway didn't mean to hijack my own thread
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New regs are now up at mywildalberta.
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/dbf3...tions-2023.pdf
l Alberta resident Canadian Armed Forces Veterans are eligible
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not a gripe but now they bring this in after I dont need a frikkin license anymore. 50 years I paid for one. still happy they finally did for the younger vets
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Old 03-31-2023, 11:40 AM
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picked up our 2023 fishing license today and was told the regs will be a couple weeks at least
before they have copys to give out.
where did you get the license? I just tried AlbertaRelm and it didn't have the 2023-2024 license. I also went to crappy tire and they said they couldn't issue me a new license either.

Did you buy the 2023-24 license or the 2022-23 license?
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Old 03-31-2023, 11:44 AM
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Wow they finally allowing one walleye 50-55cm slot harvest in McGregor, Travers, Badger and Little Bow. Somebody finally started thinking with their heads
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Old 03-31-2023, 11:44 AM
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Bought my 23-24 fishing license on AlbertaRELM this morning no problem.
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Old 03-31-2023, 11:55 AM
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Old 03-31-2023, 11:57 AM
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Wow they finally allowing one walleye 50-55cm slot harvest in McGregor, Travers, Badger and Little Bow. Somebody finally started thinking with their heads
Yeah, saw that. Few changes elsewhere. I thought the Cold Lake change was this year but maybe that will is for next year. Would to see more changes to the "x over __cm" for pike and walleye in many places yet. Baby steps...
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Yeah, saw that. Few changes elsewhere. I thought the Cold Lake change was this year but maybe that will is for next year. Would to see more changes to the "x over __cm" for pike and walleye in many places yet. Baby steps...
Agree. Time to add Pike 63-70cm slots like in Keho too.
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Old 03-31-2023, 12:33 PM
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Well looky looky new regs all is well lol
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Old 03-31-2023, 12:59 PM
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The 2023 regs are posted as a sticky at the top of this forum
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Old 03-31-2023, 01:25 PM
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Agree. Time to add Pike 63-70cm slots like in Keho too.


Yeah, time to start pushing that at the regs input meetings. It only exists in a few places which is likely to only change after the 5-year "pilot". Btw, hate that word in this case.
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I noted Travers has 100m no fishing zone from inlet canal... have not fished Travers for years, but I remember it used to be 25m. How do you measure 100m on the water exactly? And how the CO is going to prove you were within legal distance if you keep trolling and moving around that area? One point you can be within 95m 5min later within 105m. Anybody ever had a discussion about it with CO in that area? Seems like the best would be for them to put some buoys marking no fish zone?
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Old 03-31-2023, 02:20 PM
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I noted Travers has 100m no fishing zone from inlet canal... have not fished Travers for years, but I remember it used to be 25m. How do you measure 100m on the water exactly? And how the CO is going to prove you were within legal distance if you keep trolling and moving around that area? One point you can be within 95m 5min later within 105m. Anybody ever had a discussion about it with CO in that area? Seems like the best would be for them to put some buoys marking no fish zone?
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I know places outside Alberta with similar regs
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I noted Travers has 100m no fishing zone from inlet canal... have not fished Travers for years, but I remember it used to be 25m. How do you measure 100m on the water exactly? And how the CO is going to prove you were within legal distance if you keep trolling and moving around that area? One point you can be within 95m 5min later within 105m. Anybody ever had a discussion about it with CO in that area? Seems like the best would be for them to put some buoys marking no fish zone?
When they set the 25m radius rule they installed buoys at the ~25m mark. They'll probably just move the buoys further out.
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Old 03-31-2023, 04:10 PM
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where did you get the license? I just tried AlbertaRelm and it didn't have the 2023-2024 license. I also went to crappy tire and they said they couldn't issue me a new license either.

Did you buy the 2023-24 license or the 2022-23 license?
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Old 03-31-2023, 07:29 PM
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I noted Travers has 100m no fishing zone from inlet canal... have not fished Travers for years, but I remember it used to be 25m. How do you measure 100m on the water exactly? And how the CO is going to prove you were within legal distance if you keep trolling and moving around that area? One point you can be within 95m 5min later within 105m. Anybody ever had a discussion about it with CO in that area? Seems like the best would be for them to put some buoys marking no fish zone?
It has been 100M for a long time. There are Bouys there.
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