Judge sides with DFO in elver quota dispute
A judge has refused to overturn a decision made last year by a federal fisheries official to maintain the total annual quota for the Maritime juvenile eel fishery at 9,960 kilograms, a number that hasn’t budged for two decades. A group of commercial licence holders have argued there’s science that backs up their push to increase the total allowable catch, which they say would encourage more people who are fishing without authorization to enter the legal system. The case was in Federal Court earlier this month. In a Feb. 21 decision, Justice Richard Southcott sided with the federal government, ruling the reasons underpinning the quota decision were “comprehensible and rational.” more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 07:37
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