What to fish ?
The fishing of certain species is completely forbidden in Wallonie !
This is the case of :
| Asp |
Bitterling |
Sturgeon |
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| European flounder |
European river lamprey |
Sea lamprey |
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| Spined loach |
Weatherfish |
Burbot |
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| Ocean trout |
Atlantic salmon |
Redclaw |
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For other species fishing is authorized but…
…only during the opening periods, and the captured of these species is submitted to a regulation. Certain fish hand all the crawfish must be immediately returned to the water if their length is inferior to :
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| for pike jack |
for pike perch |
for barbell |
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| for grayling |
for the carp, the tench, the chub, the orfe and the nase carp |
for the brown trout*, the rainbow trout, brook charr and the whitefish |
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for the perch
No sizes are applicable to the Brabant and Hainaut channels and the Nisramont lake |
for the rudd |
80 cm for the catfish |
*ATTENTION, in the navigable watercourses and the channels the length for the brown trout is elevated to 24 cm.
After June 15th 2006, all the eels fished must be returned to the water regardless of their length.
The length is measures:
For fish: from the mouth tip to the tailfin tip
For crayfish: from the eye to the tip of the stretched tail.
As such, during the fishery it is forbidden to keep fish or crayfish whose head or tail have been cut.
The angler must not keep in a fishing day more than :
Pike jack (2) Carp (2) Grayling (4) Brown trout (5) Gudgeon (30) Minnow (50)
