Riparian Rights

Case Summaries

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)