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Fisheries Law

Riparian Rights


By Brad M. Caldwell

 

These summaries are prepared by Brad M. Caldwell,  401-815 Hornby Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 2E6. Telephone (604) 689-8894 - Facsimile (604) 689-5739 - E-mail: bcaldwell@admiraltylaw.com

Copies of many of the decisions referred to can be obtained from the web site of the Canadian Legal Information Institute. At this site, these cases can also be noted up using the Reflex Record to determine whether they have been changed upon appeal.

  

Riparian Fishing Rights - Modified by Statute

Beaulieu v. New Brunswick   [2003] N.B.J.  No. 458, 2003 NBCA 92

Riparian fishing Rights - Aboriginal Claim to fishing rights based upon ad medium filum aquae

Aboriginal Fishing rights - Ad Medium Fulum Aquae

R. v. Nikal [1996] S.C.R. 1013, 133 D.L.R. (4th) 658 [link]

 

Editor's Note:  See also "Riparian Rights and Public Foreshore Use in the Administration of Aquatic Crown Land"   Occasional Paper NO. 5 Revised March 1995   Province of British Columbia   (link)   [If this link does not work, the paper can be accessed by searching the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands website]

For a historical case involving upholding the public right to fish for clams in the foreshore see: Donnelly v. Vroom [1907] N.S. Reports 327 (N.S.C.A.)

See Paper:  CONFLICTS WITH MARINA OPERATORS - THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF NAVIGATION AND RIPARIAN RIGHTS OF ACCESS COLLIDE by Brad Caldwell  Mariner Life October 2007 (link)