Tootoo urged to promote TPP and billions in seafood exports, briefings show

February 24, 2016 Canada

Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Hunter Tootoo is being urged by his department in a new briefing documents to help it rebuild its scientific capacity after it was gutted by the former Harper government. The federal department, responsible for protecting Canada’s fisheries and oceans and promoting sustainable development, told Tootoo in the internal briefings that several of its divisions suffered more than $150 million in cuts to annual budgets under the former government, including a struggling Canadian Coast Guard service. At the same time, the briefing notes touted recent trade agreements, including the controversial , saying they were offering growth opportunities for Canadian fisheries exports. Read the article here 15:26

Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Hunter Tootoo, rebuild its scientific capacity, Trans-Pacific Partnership, urged to promote TPP

One Response to Tootoo urged to promote TPP and billions in seafood exports, briefings show

DickyG says:

February 24, 2016 at 4:30 pm

Oh Canada! This is some piece of work! With a Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister like Tootoo, who needs a Domestic Fisheries Saboteur? And I thought the U.S. was the leader in spawning situations like this where the people’s representatives represented themselves at the expense of the peoples.

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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