Land: Canada

Canadian ministers have issued joint statement on the findings of ISA virus in the waters of British Columbia.

State Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral says if elected mayor, he would fight for the betterment of fishing industry.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada today reported that the value of snow crab landings for the 2011 fishing season in Newfoundland and Labrador surpassed $250 million, the highest recorded landed value for snow crab in the province since 2004. The landed value represents an increase of 61 percent over last season.

MSC certificate for the Canadian offshore northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) and striped shrimp (Pandalus montagui) fishery.

The Affiliation of Seafood Producers Association of Nova Scotia (ASPANS) has entered both the Scotian Shelf and Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab (Chionecetes opilio) trap fisheries into independent, third-party assessment to the Marine Stewardship Council’s principles and criteria for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. If successful, products would be eligible to display the blue MSC ecolabel.

New loan deposit program was launched which allow fishermen to sell their commercial fishing business.

Young generation are turning away from commercial fishing industry due to its complicating rules and high costs.

Green groups have objected that only the label of being organic is not enough for farmed fish in Canada.

Fishing on the Petitcodiac River, somewhere near Salisbury, improved a lot as fishermen catches fat salmon and big sea trout.