The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has enacted new regulations that bind its minister to rebuilding Canada's depleted fish stocks and ensuring healthy ones stay that way, a move that comes weeks after it closed down two East Coast fisheries in the name of sustainability.
Canada is one of the world’s top 30 fishing nations, catching nearly 1 million metric tons of fish each year, or 1.1% of the world’s wild fish catch by weight. But it could be so much bigger! Compared to its famously abundant past, Canada’s waters are much depleted. The collapse of cod in the 1990s – and the thousands of people left unemployed in the aftermath – remains a
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The first notable thing about the wild salmon fillet Dane Chauvel shows me is its colour – a rich red that, even over FaceTime, makes my mouth water. The second notable thing is that it’s definitely salmon.
This might not seem like a debatable fact. Chauvel is co-founder of Organic Ocean Seafood in Vancouver, Canada, housed in a historic building at the mouth of the 854-mile (1,375km) Fraser River, one of Canada’s main salmon courses. The company supplies many high-end restaurants, and wild-caught salmon makes up a large proportion of its sales.