Fisheries and Oceans Canada

2001 MARINE MAMMAL PREDATOR CONTROL
 

License No.

PERMISSION IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Honourable Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (hereinafter called the "LICENSOR") to:

(hereinafter called the "LICENSEE") to kill, by means of firearms, seals and sea lions that are destroying fish being held or reared in sea cages of the LICENSEE"                                                       for the period of January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001.  This license is issued pursuant to subsection 4(1) of the Marine Mammal Regulations and subsection 22(1) of the Fishery (General) Regulations.

Upon the following Terms and Conditions which the LICENSEE hereby agrees and accepts to perform and abide by:

1. For the permission hereby given, the LICENSE shall pay to the LICENSOR, in advance an annual fee of five dollars ($5.00) or such other annual fee as the LICENSOR may in writing advise, made payable to the Receiver General for Canada and sent to the Regional Aquaculture coordinator, Pacific Region.
    

2. Only Harbour seals, California Sea Lions and Stellar Sea Lions are permitted to be killed under the authority of this License.
    

3. Only those seals of seas lions that are actually taking, or attempting to take fish being held or reared in sea cages may be killed.
    

4. The area of killing is restricted to the immediate site of the sea cages and shall not occur in waters outside the legal boundaries of the Lease or License of Occupation in which the sea cages and associated infrastructure reside.
    

5. Only employees of the LICENSEE who meet either of the following qualifications may kill seals or sea lions under the authority of this LICENSE:

   1. Having a valid Federal firearms Acquisition Certificate (FAC); or,

   2. Having a valid Federal Possession and Acquisition License (FPAL)
       

6. Persons killing seals or sea lion under authority of this License must carry documentation confirming that they meet one of the criteria listed in subsection (5) and produce it on demand of a Fishery Officer, Conservation Officer or Constable.
    

7. Firearms used to kill seals or sea lions shall have a muzzle velocity of not less than 1,800 feet per second, and a muzzle energy of not less than 1,100 foot pounds; or a 12 gauge shotgun, utilizing a single rifled slug.
    

8. Every attempt shall be made to retrieve all seals or sea lions killed under authority of this License.  These animals shall be retrieved from the water within 24 hours, biologically sampled according to instructions provided by the Pacific Biological Station (Marine Mammal Research), and then disposed of on shore by burial above the high water mark.
    

9. The LICENSEE shall submit quarterly written reports containing the following information:     

   1. The number of Harbour seals killed;

   2. The number and species of sea lions killed; and

   3. The date each seal/sea lion was killed.

   The report should be sent to:    The Regional Aquaculture Coordinator, Pacific Region
                                                 Fisheries and Oceans Canada
                                                 360 - 555 West Hastings Street
                                                 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5G3
    

10. This License may be cancelled forthwith at any time by either party; by the LICENSEE by notice in writing and delivered to or mailed addressed to the Regional Aquaculture Coordinator's Office, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; by the LICENSOR by notice in writing and delivered to or mailed addressed to the LICENSEE.

    DATED AT Vancouver, British Columbia, this 21st day of December, Two Thousand A.D.

    LICENSEE:__________________________________
                        Heritage aquaculture West Coast Operations

                        _______________________________
                        Regional Aquaculture Coordinator
                        for the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

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