Clearwater Seafoods granted temporary request to catch more lobster in Nova Scotia intrafish.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from intrafish.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Correction: Clearwater Seafoods puts in request to catch more lobster in Nova Scotia intrafish.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from intrafish.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Halifax-headquartered Clearwater Seafoods wants to increase the amount of lobster it's allowed to catch each year in Nova Scotia waters by 72 tonnes. But the effort is running into a groundswell of opposition from groups representing more than 1,500 inshore fishermen.
A group representing lobster fishermen in southwest Nova Scotia is raising concerns about Ottawa's commitment to voluntary licence buyouts to increase Indigenous access, after the department stopped bargaining with licence holders in the lucrative elver fishery.