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UPDATED: Shrimp fishery reprieve? Industry proposal would avoid cuts this year
The offshore and inshore shrimp fleets have unanimously approved a plan that would see no cuts to shrimp quotas in fishing areas off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015. In a move that can only be classified as stunning, the two sides presented the plan to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans at a federal shrimp advisory meeting in Montreal on Wednesday. “I have little doubt the minister will approve the recommendation,” Chapman told CBC Radio’s Fisheries Broadcast. Read the rest here 14:01
