Data sources and disclaimer

Fishable is not a government app. It is an independent app made by 10ten Studio Inc. and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting on behalf of the Government of British Columbia or the Government of Canada. It is a guide built from public government data, not legal advice. The official regulations govern; always check the sources below.

Official sources

• BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis 2025–2027 and in-season changes: gov.bc.ca fishing regulations
• British Columbia Sport Fishing Regulations, 1996: Justice Laws Canada; BC Wildlife Act: BC Laws
• Tidal waters and salmon (not covered by Fishable): Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• BC Freshwater Atlas: stream network, lakes, rivers, wetlands, manmade waterbodies and named watersheds: BC Data Catalogue
• Known BC Fish Observations and BC Fish Distributions, including Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC releases: BC Data Catalogue
• Fish obstacles (falls, dams, fishways) from the Fisheries Information Summary System, and BC dams: BC Geographic Warehouse via openmaps.gov.bc.ca
• Wildlife Management Units (the management units the synopsis uses): BC Data Catalogue
• ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric (private and Crown land on the bank): BC Data Catalogue
• BC Parks, Ecological Reserves and Protected Areas; conservancies; wildlife management areas: BC Data Catalogue
• National parks and other federal protected areas: Parks Canada administrative boundaries and the Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
• Place names for Find: BC Geographical Names (GeoBC) via openmaps.gov.bc.ca

Weather

• Forecasts for Good time to fish: Open-Meteo, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Canada. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Topo map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), packaged with Protomaps; terrain from Copernicus DEM GLO-30, © DLR e.V. and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. Satellite: Esri World Imagery. Map software: MapLibre GL JS, PMTiles and maplibre-contour (BSD-3-Clause). Fonts: Barlow Condensed, IBM Plex and Noto Sans (SIL Open Font Licence 1.1).

How current it is

Fishable rebuilds its data every two weeks. It reads the province's in-season changes twice a day: a plain closure is applied the same day, and any other change shows as "Can't confirm" for that water until we've reviewed it. Every answer shows the date of the data it used. If the data is more than 30 days old, the app stops answering "Open" until you update.

Disclaimer

Fishable is a guide, not legal advice or a licence. Government data can be incomplete or wrong, GPS can be off, and the app can't see signs, the gear you use, or changes that aren't in its data yet. It doesn't cover tidal waters or salmon. You are responsible for fishing legally. See the Terms of Use.