Land: Canada

The Honourable Gail Shea, Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans,

The demand for peddler’s licences in Prince Edward Island has increased since the beginning of the lobster season on May1.

Several meetings between federal and provincial fisheries officials on lobster crisis failed to produce any results.

The state budget made in 2009 committed $1 million for infrastructure projects on the province’s south coast, with a total provincial commitment of $5 million over two years.

Atlantic Fisheries Organizations asked the federal government to intervene in the lobster market collapse.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s processors claim the crab industry is sinking due to the ongoing economic recession.

Fisheries Organizations throughout Atlantic Canada have urged the intervention of fisheries ministers to save lobster industry from crisis.

The crab season in N.L. province is in jeopardy as the authorities have decided to lower the raw material price.

Concerns over lowered crab price are increasing as a Newfoundland and Labrador regulating panel has lowered the price of raw crab.

Excessive bycatch of cod is holding back recovery of one of the world’s best known fisheries following its collapse and closure in the early 1990s.