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Regulation of the fisheries of leisure in France
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The organization of the leisure-fisheries
To ensure the permanence of fish in the waterways, to allow the development of the leisure-fisheries, and to avoid the conflicts of use, it is necessary to organize the practice of the fisheries, by regulating it.
The right then becomes a tool with the service of the safeguarding of the aquatic environment and piscicultural inheritance which it shelters. This mission of general interest is ensured by:
- The Management of Water, with the Department of the Environment
- The
- The associative sector of the fisheries, made up of 4200 approved associations (), of 92 also approved Departmental federations, their regional unions, with at the summit of the pyramid the National federation for the fisheries in France and protection of the aquatic environment.
Also let us specify that there exist approved associations which gather the fishermen amateurs with the machines and the nets on the public domain, and others the professional fresh water fishermen.
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The field of application of the regulation Until the limit of salinity of water (in the estuaries), the regulation of the fresh water fisheries is implemented
- On interstitial waters
One calls interstitial waters, the rivers, the rivers, the brooks and the channels, as well as the lakes - ponds or lakes - in communication with the hydrographic network.
- On certain closed water
It is necessary for that their owner or their manager expressly requests from the prefect their subjection with the font of the fresh water fisheries. One calls closed water the without no communication with the interstitial waters or whose communication does not allow the piscicultural life; they escape the provisions of the rural code.
- On piscicultures
In the piscicultures, dedicated to the “tourist valorization”, whose fish dock has a surface equal or higher than one hectare, the customer who angling must there discharge the piscicultural tax. The conditions of fisheries are those fixed by the operator of pisciculture. These establishments, which raise fish, generally at economic or scientific ends, are separated from the hydrographic network by permanent grids preventing freedom of movement of fish.
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The card of fisheries Any person who delivers to the exercise fisheries in water where implement the legislation and the regulation must justify its membership of an approved association of fisheries and protection of the aquatic environment (), concretized by the possession of a card of fisheries. This card returns it member of the which it chose. It will have to forward it to the agents in charge of the font fresh water fisheries (fishery protection ship and technicians of the Superior council of the Fisheries, gendarmes).
  
The various cards of sins (valid in 2008)
Major: Statutory + contribution
Miner (young people of 12 with less than 18 years to January 1st): + statutory contribution
Card discovered (Young people less than 12 years): No statutory + contribution
Promotional card “discovered woman”: No + recommended statutory contribution
Holidays (Between June 1st and December 31st, valid 15 days): Statutory + contribution
Day laborer: + contribution * For the it is advisable to add the statutory contributions (federation/)
- Where to buy a card of fisheries?
The dissemination of the card of fisheries rests on a network of proximity which makes it possible to the fisherman to easily get it. It is available at each and of the trustees that the aforementioned chose retailers of items of fisheries, cafés, department stores, sport stores.
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Contributions When it acquires its card of fisheries, the fisherman pays at the same time the amount of his statutory contribution, which returns with the (which it even reverse the federal share), and the amount of the .
The statutory contribution
At the time of his accession with an association approved for the fisheries and the protection of the aquatic environment (), the fisherman pours a statutory contribution whose amount is fixed freely by each association (in addition to the federal share).
- It should be noted that in 2008, the exemptions (joint, minor… etc) do not exist any more. Each fisherman must discharge the , therefore to have a card of fisheries.
The payment of a complementary contribution can be required for the practice of the fisheries in boat. In addition, on batches of fisheries to specialized vocation, association can found special conditions of access. The product of the contributions perceived by association enables him to conclude the missions of general interest which entrust to him the law: animation of the leisure-fisheries, piscicultural management, safeguarding of piscicultural fauna and the aquatic environment. Part of the statutory contribution is transferred at the departmental federation of fisheries, in the form of a federal contribution.
The Contribution for the Protection of the Aquatic environment ()
All the fishermen discharge the ( piscicultural tax), in its various forms. N the other hand, it to them is delivered stamps, which must be reproduced on their card of fisheries. The product of the is centralized by the Main road Federations, via the network of treasurers of associations and the federations. This resource allows set up the shares of safeguarding and restoration of the aquatic environment.
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Rights attached to the card of fisheries The card of fisheries grants to its holder of rights as for the exercise of the fisheries, and devotes its membership to the associative sector of the fresh water fisheries.
Right to fish
The holder of a card of fisheries can practice his leisure:
- Everywhere in France, with only one line, in water where the fishing rights belong to the State, primarily water of the public domain.
- In all the batches managed by its , (on water of the public domain and nondomanial water) where the fisheries are not prohibited.
- In the batches exploited by associations with which its has agreements of reciprocity, federal or interdepartmental, realizing, if necessary, the payment of a contribution .
- In the nondomanial and (where the fishing rights belongs to the bordering owners and to the owners of the content) subject having the permission of the holder of the fishing rights (with personal capacity, authorization, lease, accession).
Associative rights
The holders of an Adult card of fisheries, have the quality of active member of their . The whole of the active members constitutes the general meeting, sovereign part which elects in its bosom the office of association and the delegates who proceed to the election of the Board of directors. Any active member of a can be candidate at the board of directors of the federation.
Other members - holders of a discovered card, holidays or of a card day laborer, are regarded as associated members. They do not take part in the votes of the general assembly and cannot be elected at the Board of directors.
The rights
The reciprocity is an agreement made between associations or federations which gives to their respective members the access to the batches of fisheries that they manage. She has the advantage of enlarging the of the fishermen.
The reciprocity relates to whole or part of the batches exploited by the structures which adhere to it. She can be developed on a department scale where on an interdepartmental scale.
3 agreements exist. the Halieutic Club (CHI), the Halieutic Agreement of Great West () and the “ reciprocity with 4 lines in 2nd category). These three agreements are themselves dependant between them by a agreement, of which can profit all the fishermen who are members.
The fisherman who wishes to profit from the reciprocity discharges, if necessary, a label , in addition to the price of his card of fisheries.
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Conditions of exercise of the fisheries The conditions of exercise of the fisheries are determined by the rural Code and the orders of the prefect. Also it is always good to get information locally, to know with exactitude the conditions of applicable fisheries about the river. Piscicultural categories
To take account of the biology of the species, the , channels and lakes are classified in two piscicultural categories:
- The first category understands those which are mainly populated trouts, as those where it appears desirable to ensure a special protection of fish of this species ( dominant).
- The second category gathers all the others , channels and lakes ( dominant). This classification conditions the conditions of practice of the fisheries, below detailed
When to fish?
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Hours of fisheries The practice of the fisheries is authorized as from half an hour before the sunrise, up to half an hour after its sleeping. In theory, the fisheries of night are thus prohibited; however, the prefect with faculty to authorize by closure the fisheries of night of certain species (sea trout, alose, , lampreys, mule, eel), under the conditions fixed by the rural code. It can also authorize the fisheries of carp of night.
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