Canada is opening a personal-use bait fishery for mackerel this spring while extending the moratorium on commercial mackerel fishing in Atlantic Canada and Quebec in 2024.
Canada has appointed a veteran Mi'kmaw fisheries manager to the international agency that sets quotas for commercial species of tuna and swordfish in the Atlantic.Hubert Nicholas of Membertou First Nation was named as one of two commissioners representing Canadian interests at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) over the weekend.He joins another recent appointee, environmentalist Katie Schleit of the non-profit conservation group Oceans North. Commissioner
The latest scientific assessment of the huge population of redfish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has sobering news even as fishing groups in Atlantic Canada and Quebec fight over who will get to catch it.
A new federal report is calling for better monitoring of the commercial fishery in Canada, saying DFO's failure could put some stocks in danger. The P.E.I. Fishermen's Association says timely data will become even more critical because of the impacts of climate change.