Land: Canada

Canadian government has responded to proposed European Union ban on the trade of seal products.

A $100,000 commitment from the provincial government will help B.C.’s

The Canadian government has announced that major development work will soon start at 18 New Brunswick Harbours.

The authority has approved new management measures for the 2008 recreational groundfish fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The season of crab fishery has started on Wednesday July 16 with 53 licenced vessels expected to fill their holds.

Part of St. Mary’s Bay still closed to harvesting of bi-valve mollusks except scallops for recreational or commercial purposes.

The Living Oceans Society has called for a move from open net cage salmon farms into closed containment farm.

A lone commercial seiner has failed to capture 30,000 ecaped farm-raised Atlantic salmon in the waters of Campbell River.

Study revealed that compounds from plastics are being found in the bloodstream of lobster which causes shell disease to lobster.

There is a long debate and big discussion ahead as the lobster industry and DFO try to reach an agreement on the protection of large lobsters.