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Nova Scotia will lift moratorium on seafood processing and buying licences in 2023

Nova Scotia will end its five-year moratorium on issuing new seafood processing and buying licences. The “temporary” moratorium was imposed in 2018 while the province reviewed its licensing regime. Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Steve Craig says he does not know why the freeze was imposed by the previous Liberal government. “I’ve even had people tell me that the moratorium is the policy, which is not the case. The Nova Scotia Seafood Alliance lobbied for the moratorium, which still allowed for the sale or transfer of an existing licence. >click to read< 11:40

Something to crab about – Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ltd.,

B97185853Z_120130524172432000GL131UKF_11Chronical Herald- Not that anyone else in Neils Harbour is putting on airs either, but Osborne Burke doesn’t at first have the look of a man in charge of an empire. He gets around in a pickup that does not gleam; his office is in a former elementary school, a building shared with a Pharmasave. But Burke, the manager of Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ltd., runs an operation that last year had sales of more than $18 million. No wonder everyone around here knows him. continued