A Halifax lawyer is calling on Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray to immediately amend its Fisheries Management Order and allow Wine Harbour Fisheries to resume fishing and catch their licensed quota. A release from lawyer Michel Samson states the Fisheries Management Order closed the 2023 commercial elver fishery in…
Fisheries and Oceans Canada's top enforcement officer in the Maritimes says an "unprecedented" number of poachers descended on Nova Scotia and New Brunswick rivers this spring to illegally remove baby eels, also known as elvers.
HALIFAX - A commercial fisher in Nova Scotia’s lucrative baby eel fishery is seeking to have a court quash a federal order shutting down the Maritime .