The anticipated recreational salmon licences will be available to vendors in central and western Newfoundland starting Monday.
According to a news release from the Department of Fisheries and Land Resources, the licences are being printed and will be distributed once the department receives them.
Licences will be available for purchase in other regions and for visitors of the province in the coming days, the release said.
Anglers were angry earlier this month when it was announced some wouldn't have their licences in time for the June 1 start of the season.
And for some outfitters, damage has already been done.
"I don't really know what's going on. I just know that I'm losing business because of it," Barb Genge, who owns Tuckamore Lodge in Main Brook on the Northern Peninsula, told the Corner Brook Morning Show on Thursday morning.
We don't need this stupidity, right?- Barb Genge
She said she recently had to turn away business from Europeans who wanted to come here to fish because the licensing hadn't been worked out yet. She said they told her they'd also been looking at South Africa and decided to go there instead.
"When you come to a country, you want everything to be clear and precise, because if you're in violation of any law, that means you either get stuck in that country, or you're never allowed back in the country," she said, adding that she's heard concerns from longtime customers as well.
"We don't need this stupidity, right?"
Visiting anglers aren't going to take the chance of breaking contentious regulations in Newfoundland and Labrador for fear of losing their ability to fish elsewhere in Canada too, she said.
"Everybody is in this chaotic state," she said.
Provincial Fisheries Minister Gerry Byrne laid the blame for the delay squarely at the feet of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is responsible for regulating the fishery.
Byrne said miscommunication about this season's retention limits and other requirements meant the licences needed to be reprinted, even after three prior printings.
The resident salmon licences are $5 each plus HST, instead of the $23 charged in recent years.
Non-resident licences will continue to cost $80 plus $5 for a vendor fee.
Anglers will have to abide by a one-fish-per-season quota until a mid-season review is done.
There will be a catch-and-release limit of three fish per day in all rivers in the province.