River · Pictou, Nova Scotia
Barneys River
At a glance
Who lives here
- Brook trout Salvelinus fontinalisStocked · 2025 · Fish stocking: Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia
- Brown trout Salmo truttaStocked · 2019 · Fish stocking: Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia
Not listed doesn't mean no fish.
Stocking
| Year | Species | Stage | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2025 | Brook Trout | 8-14 weeks after absorption of yolk sac | 52,500 |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Brook Trout | 26-52 weeks after absorption of yolk sac | 11,971 |
| Jul 8, 2019 | Brown Trout | 8-14 weeks after absorption of yolk sac | 50,000 |
As the agency publishes it. Newest first: 3 of 3.
Getting on the water
No public access site is listed for this water yet.
Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.
The rules
Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.
HuntGrid has no rules for this water yet.
Official regulations: Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
What's biting
Not enough anglers have shared catches here lately. A species shows for a week once at least 5 anglers share catches of it.
From anglers who chose to share their catches in HuntGrid Fishing, each counted once, counts rounded to the nearest 5, published 3 days after the week ends and never changed. Never a spot, time or name.
About this page
Sources and licences:
- Natural Resources Canada, CanVec Hydro Features (1:50,000). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.; Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB); Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Boundary Files (census divisions and subdivisions, provinces). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
- Fish stocking: Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia · Nova Scotia Open Government Licence (https://novascotia.ca/opendata/licence.asp, checked 2026-10-19): "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes" … "Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose." data.novascotia.ca dataset 8e4a-m6fw: licence Nova Scotia Open Government Licence.
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2026) GEBCO 2026 Grid (approximate ocean depth) · Public domain (GEBCO terms of use: "The GEBCO Grid is placed in the public domain and may be used free of charge"; copy, publish, adapt and commercially exploit, acknowledging the source)
The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above, without a basemap. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.