Opinion: Federal fisheries committee challenges B.C. licensing policies

With a sole focus on protecting fish stocks, since the mid-1990s Fisheries and Oceans Canada has largely ignored the economic well-being of B.C.’s commercial fish harvesters and coastal communities. Something really extraordinary just happened. Someone in the government of Canada started paying attention to the B.C. fishery. Not just to the fish in the water, but to the 2,400 small- and medium-sized businesses that employ more than 5,000 fish harvesters to deliver high-value seafood products to local and global markets and sustain B.C.’s coastal communities and First Nations. >click to read< 21:52

One Response to Opinion: Federal fisheries committee challenges B.C. licensing policies

  1. Mark Lindsell says:

    Too late. The government’s mandate, proven with their neglect towards increasing enhancement, has been since 1990 to destroy the commercial fishing industry, and all the fisheries on the BC coast. Not one federal fishery policy passed since 1990 has befitted fisheries in BC.

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