Canadian shrimp fisheries got sustainability certificate
MSC certificate for the Canadian offshore northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) and striped shrimp (Pandalus montagui) fishery.
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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.
There will be no commercial fishing in the Beaufort Sea as per new accord between the federal government and the Inuvialuit people of the western Arctic.
The Harper Government has given inshore shrimp harvesters “the royal shaft” in quota allocations for the 2011 fishery, according to FFAW/CAW President Earle McCurdy.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has transferred the ownership of Port Credit Harbour facility to Canada Lands Company.
The government of Canada has announced USD14 million to Atlantic Lobster Harvesting Groups to implement sustainability measures.
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