Canada Unveils Updates to Fisheries Act to Cautious Praise from Industry, Environmentalists
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [News Analysis] by John Sackton February 7, 2018
Liberal Fisheries Minister Dominick LeBlanc unveiled the governments new Fisheries Act amendments, and the plan, under wraps for months, received cautious praise from both industry and environmentalists.
Canada’s 100 year old fishery act has been sorely in need of modernization, with one of the most glaring weaknesses being that ministerial decisions on quotas and fisheries could be taken without reference to science or the state of fish stocks.
Further, under the previous Harper government, the Act was weakened in 2012 as many habitat and environmental protections of fisheries were stripped away, the budget...
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