PEI lobstermen in LFA 24 expected to vote down license stacking
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] August 1, 2014
The president of the Prince County Fishermen’s Association has no expectations that his membership will reopen discussion on stacking of lobster licences now that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has given the green light for stacking in LFA 26A at the eastern end of the province and in the western portion of Lobster Fishing Area 24.
DFO is permitting spring fishermen to buy out a second licence, or two fishermen to buy out a third as long as some traps from the bought out licence are retired.
Although they voted down a stacking proposal during a policy meeting last spring, Lee Knox noted PCFA members did vote in favour of a proposal to allow fall fishermen from LFA 25 in P.E.I. to also possess a spring lobster licence in either LFA 24 or 26A...
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