Tag Archives: Department of Fisheries and Ocean
Canadian Lobster Industry Implements Elog JOBEL
Electronic logbooks (Elog) for fisheries are essential for the timely processing and analysis of capture declarations and the sustainable management of Canadian fisheries. Since 2018 in Québec, fishers using JOBEL have demonstrated their fishing activity is compliant with national and international requirements. In the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, fishers, harvesters and scientists now have the information required to evaluate the durability of the Québec lobster fishery. Lobster fishers and harvesters in the Gaspe area now provide the Marine Stewardship Council with accurate information impacting other species during the certification process for their spring fishery. >click to read< 09:41
Consultation process questioned for waters off Cape Breton designated as Marine Protected Area
An area three quarters the size of Prince Edward Island has been declared as a Marine Protected Area (MPA) just off eastern Cape Breton and the people who normally fish there aren’t too pleased about it. According to Veronika Brzeski, executive director of the Cape Breton Fish Harvesters Association, local fishermen will be losing 15 per cent of their total fishing area. But what’s even worse was the way the Department of Fisheries and Ocean went about setting it up, she says. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the establishment of the St. Ann’s Bank Marine Protected Area as part of World Oceans Day earlier this week. The designation means that most human activities such as commercial fishing will be prohibited in 75 per cent of the area. “St. Anns Bank is the third Marine Protected Area to be designated in Canadian waters in less than eight months,” said LeBlanc. click here to read the story 11:30
Government ‘hell bent’ on destroying commercial fishery, says Skeena – Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen.
The Northern View – “The Federal Government seems hell bent on getting rid of the commercial fishery… This appears to be the way of killing the fishery, death of 1,000 cuts,” he said, adding that the fishery doesn’t appear to be on the government’s radar. “Salmon simply aren’t the priority for this government. Pipelines are. We have an unwilling and unintelligent government right now and I can’t think of a lower priority for this government right now.” continued
