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FISHING LICENSE

What is a fishing license useful for ? Taking a fishing license is not a normal act. Indeed, this card allows naturally to fish in open waters but also its owner must be a citizen fisherman, and must prone activist respect of aquatic environments and the promotion of fisheries. Fulfill statutory contributions used to finance local fish communities. By paying the fee Fisheries and Aquatic Environment tax (CPMA), you participate in the protection of aquatic environments. Part of that covers the fee for the protection of the aquatic environment perceived by the water agencies .It also allows the operation of the National Federation for Fisheries and Aquatic Environment Protection who shoulder the departmental federations in carrying their missions. Where to buy the fishing license ? Either directly on the www.cartedepeche.fr site or at a card depositary : see the map below to find out where to buy a fishing card next to you. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1zNWeHuEVHaGAkbOvvr9S208ROxs&ll=48.9538463735649%2C6.2567134999999325&z=9 Where do have I the right to fish with my fishing license ? Depending on my fishing license and AAPPMA which I endorse, linear fishing that I have the right to practice is different :

URNE reciprocity No URNE affiliation

Affiliation to 54 reciprocity

No Affiliation to 54 reciprocity

Affiliation to 54 reciprocity

No Affiliation to 54

reciprocity

Major person license

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 department

I can only fish in the beats of my

AAPPMA

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 department reciprocity

I can only fish in the beats of my AAPPMA

Interfederal license

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 reciprocity , URNE, CHI, and

EHGO.

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 reciprocity , URNE, CHI, and

EHGO.

My AAPPMA doesn’t sell this license.

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WARNING : The fishing license is personal and not transferable, photography is mandatory. Carrying the fishing license is required to be fishing. No copy of the CPMA stamps may be issued. If lost, the fisherman must again acquire unless his fishing card has been bought on the website www.cartedepeche.fr where he can reprint his fishing license TWO WAYS TO BUY YOUR FISHING LICENSE You can buy your fishing license into a depository store. See the map or the federation of fishing guide for depositary stores near you. Attention depositary stores do not sell the fishing permits of all AAPPMA department, ask before. You also have the option to pay and print your fishing license on the website www.cartedepeche.fr It's convenient, accessible, and you can buy a card from any AAPPMA in France. Moreover, in case of loss, it is possible to reprint.

GENERAL REGULATIONS The fishing opening dates The exercise of the fishing conditions are determined by the Environmental Code and the prefectural orders. The fish categories To reflect the biology of species, streams, canals and lakes are classified into two fish categories: 1st category includes those that are mainly populated with trout, as well as those where it appears desirable to ensure special protection of fish of this species (dominant salmonids); The second category includes all other rivers, canals and lakes (dominant cyprinids). When to fish? Fishing can be exercised from a half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset. Fishing times of day, calculated standard time are listed on the home page. However, fishing night carp is the subject to a specific law. In Meurthe-et-Moselle, it is possible to fish night carp between April 1 and October 31 on some routes defined by prefectural. The detention of a stamp CPMA (fee Fishing Aquatic Environment) is required to fish at night carp. Download the 2016 prefectural document for carp nigh fishing (in french) : http://www.peche-54.fr/images/Carpe_nuit_2016.pdf Opening times The opening times are determined in consideration of the breeding season of the various fish species, which justifies the closure of the fishery. The fishing periods and vary by class fish, species and, where appropriate, departments. The opening of the trout fishing in the first class period is set from the second Saturday in March to the third Sunday of September, in order to ensure optimal protection of the reproduction of brown trout.

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In the waters of the second category, fishing is allowed all year, except for fishing for pike, zander or salmon, which have specific closures. Thus, fishing for pike and zander is authorized from 1 January to the last Sunday of January and 1st May to 31 December (inclusive). Fishing for brown trout and whitefish is permitted in 2nd class during the opening time in water of 1st category. Fishing for grayling is permitted the third Saturday in May in the third Sunday of September in 1st class until 31 December in the second category. Download the Annual Review 2016 (in french) : http://www.peche-54.fr/images/Avis_annuel_2016.pdf Which fish to fish? The minimum landing sizes: Some species of fish and crayfish are subject to a minimum size for the age of first reproduction. Fish caught with a length less than the prescribed size must be returned to the water immediately after capture. The fish is measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the extended tail, crayfish from the tip of the head, claws and antenna not included at the end of the tail.

Some fish are the subject of a legal catch size below which they should be returned to the water. In Meurthe-et-Moselle, legal catch sizes are: • 0.23 m for trout (except the Plain where size is fixed at 0.20 m) • 0.50 m for pike, • 0.40 m for zander, • 0.30 m for the Black-bass, • 0.30 m for grayling, • 0.09 m for crayfish. However, some AAPPMA could define larger sizes in their internal regulations. In 2015, a prefectural decree establishes the creation of graciation course on which the catch and release the catch is mandatory. Check the closing of course graciation 2016 (in French) : http://www.peche-54.fr/images/AP_Graciation_2016.pdf

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Catch quotas: In Meurthe-et-Moselle, salmonids are subject to a limited number of catches set at six per angler per day. However, some AAPPMA can set a lower number of catches or on other species.

NEW 2016 : since the decree of April 9, 2016, a daily quota of three predators (pike, perch and black bass) is applicable in the waters of second category. Maximum two pike per day per angler may be retained.

The methods and allowed fishing methods Members of associations approved for fishing and the protection of the aquatic environment may, depending on the CPMA stamp acquitted fish :

- Up to four lines in the waters of 2nd category. - A line in the waters of 1st category in the public domain.

The lines should be mounted on rods and hooks provided with two or three artificial flies at most. They must be available near the fisherman. Gear and nets :

- Six scales more for catching crayfish and shrimps - A carafe or bottle, for catching minnows and other fish for bait whose capacity may be greater

than two liters, in the waters of 2nd category.

The methods and prohibited fishing methods : - Fishing by hand under the ice or by disturbing the water is prohibited. The shelling made for

angling stud is however allowed. - all processes consisting hook a fish other than by mouth is prohibited.

Specific measures of protection of fish wealth : In the waters of 1st and 2nd category, it is forbidden to use as bright or as bait fish the species which are subject to minimum landing sizes or are designated as capable of causing biological imbalances (catfish perch-sun, exotic crayfish) or are protected under the law on the protection of nature or belong to species "foreign" (non-legally represented in our waters and use as bait or as a primer eggs from natural or artificial fish, civelles, eel or its meat is also prohibited. In the waters of the second category, fishing alive, the dead or artificial fish, spoon and other lures, except the artificial fly is prohibited during the period specific prohibition of fishing for pike. Fishing Reserves Some rivers are protected areas by prefectural. On the public domain, they are subject to a protection of up to 5 years. Download the decree of 2015 and 2016 reserves (in French) : http://www.peche-54.fr/images/Arrt%20Rserves%20temporaires%202015-2016.pdf Other reservations are required by managers to protect breeding areas or certain susceptible species. All of these reserves is detailed on AAPPMA sectors.

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RECIPROCITY Get a fishing license, you paid a stamp CPMA. This stamp is national, it is not necessary to perform a new on the repurchase of a second fishing license during the year. Since 2011, the Federation is a member of the Union Réciprocitaire Northeast. This membership offers many fishing opportunities in the department but also throughout the country. Overview of key changes. North East Réciprocitaire Union (URNE) : It allows all fishermen AAPPMA members to practice on the rivers and lakes of the public and private domain registered in this reciprocity in accordance with local regulations (rules of procedure ...). The acceding departments offer courses open to holders of a fishing card or réciprocitaire stamp. Only members of a fishing AAPPMA offering lots in the URNE may acquire a card or a stamp réciprocitaire. This purchase can be made at the time of card taken with a depository AAPPMA a member of the URN or site www.cartedepeche.fr AAPPMA from a member: - In 2015, the Interfederal card for € 95, allows fishing on the entire batch enrolled in the URNE EHGO and CHI in the same condiditions that members fishermen AAPPMA Manager course concerned. This card can only be sold by registered AAPPMA with all their batch in the URNE. - For AAPPMA who have registered some of their lots in the URNE, a reciprocal-Urne card, for a price of 95 €, allows fishermen members only access other lots AAPPMA partially in the URN. This card is not sold in Meurthe-et-Moselle since adherent AAPPMA the URN chose to be there in full. - During the year, an additional "Interfederal" or "reciprocal-Urn" can be added to a card at € 30 adult price and sold only with a depository using www.cartedepeche.fr site. Reciprocity on lots AAPPMA enrolled in the URN, the EHGO and CHI is free for cardholders discovery female minor, discovery or weekly. This reciprocity is not accessible to the holder of a day card. The 54 Reciprocity This is a specific departmental system of reciprocity to the Meurthe-et-Moselle. Reciprocity 54 allows all fishermen AAPPMA acceding to fish on all the lots concerned, whether private or public, of 1st or 2nd class. In the closed water AAPPMA Reciprocity 54, the spouse (s) are dispensed (s) to purchase a fishing license. They can then go fishing respecting the rules of the AAPPMA and the Site.

URNE reciprocity No URNE affiliation

Affiliation to 54 reciprocity

No Affiliation to 54 reciprocity

Affiliation to 54 reciprocity

No Affiliation to 54

reciprocity

Major person license

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 department

I can only fish in the beats of my

AAPPMA

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 department reciprocity

I can only fish in the beats of my AAPPMA

Interfederal license

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 reciprocity , URNE, CHI, and

EHGO.

I can fish in all the AAPPMA from the

54 reciprocity , URNE, CHI, and

EHGO.

My AAPPMA doesn’t sell this license.

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PIERRE PERCÉE LAKE Pierre-Percée lake is classified public domain mountain lake second category. Fishing is therefore open to any fisherman holds a year fishing license current. To fish in more than one line, fishermen must be in possession of a map of a AAPPMA Meurthe-et-Moselle or Interfédérale card. Check the prefectural decree regulating the practice of fishing in Pierre Percee here (in French) : http://www.peche-54.fr/images/arrete_Pierre-Percee_2011.pdf

OPENING PERIOD OF FISHING The fishing is allowed from January 1 to December 31, on the lake's edge, by boat and float tube. Fishing for salmon is permitted from the second Saturday in March to the 3rd Sunday in September included (whitefish fishery included). Fishing for pike and zander is authorized from 1 January to the last Sunday of January inclusive and from 1 May to 31 December. MINIMUM SIZE OF CAPTURE OF SPECIES Trout: 23 centimeters Whitefish 30 cm Pike: 50 cm Sandre: 40 centimeters The number of allowed catches of salmonids (trout, whitefish) is limited to six per day per fisherman. METHODS AND FISHING METHODS The fishing with two hooks at the mounted rod is allowed. The trolling line is also authorized, each boat being provided with a maximum of three lines mounted cane. The use of the probe is authorized and leaded line with a mass of fifty grams maximum ten hooks provided at the storied above the lead is permitted exclusively for the fishing of whitefish.

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CEASE AND FISHING RESERVES Are prohibited: Fishing nets and other gear. Fishing on the mentioned areas including all sections of banks and shores of these areas. Fishing near the structures operated by EDF in the areas between these works and the limits materialized and reported by EDF. Docking with distance FISHING BOAT Boats ramps : Lower Nangoutte, Pre-Barbier, Les Bordes and Pierre-Percée Anse (Access to the lower parking lot only permitted for launching, parking obligatory on the upper parking). During the summer weekends of great affluence, it is advisable to use preferably made of water Pre-Barbier, Basse Nangoutte or Pierre Percee, Bordes boat ramp is very frequented by swimmers and others boaters. Fishing boat, for human or electric propulsion is allowed. Bailer and life jackets are mandatory in the boat are required to fish from a rowing boats. If the drive is by electric motor, a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher are also mandatory.

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LEGAL FISHING HOURS Check the calendar 2016 of statutory hourly practice of angling : http://www.peche-54.fr/images/stories/telechargement/horaires.pdf

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Closing fishing for pike and zander in waters Tier Opening of fishing in the waters of the first category Opening of the fishing night carp Opening of fishing for pike and zander in waters Tier Opening of fishing for common shade in the waters of first and second category Opening of fishing for crayfish and slender legs Closing fishing for crayfish and slender legs Closure of fishing in the waters of the first category Closing fishing night carp

These schedules reflect the half-hour before sunrise and after sunset.

Fédération de Meurthe-et-Moselle pour la Pêche et la

Protection du Milieu Aquatique 50 rue du Docteur Bernheim 54000 NANCY

03.83.56.27.44

www.peche-54.fr