Land: Canada

A scientific panel reviewing management of the Skeena River fishery has urged to reduce the salmon catch by 50 percent.

Fishermen reported a bumper start during opening week of lobster season in Northern Peninsula, N.L.

Climate change, habitat destruction cause salmon fish stocks to plummet and that threatens to ecology and culture, says expert.

The new technology will boost the Atlantic Canada’s live shellfish industry and widen the world market of seafood, says O’Rielly.

The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) has planned to assess the effect of bottom trawling on several fishing grounds outside Canada’s 200-mile limit.

High fuel costs pressurize the crab fishery so much that the fishermen demand better prices and pricing system.

There is strong uptake of a low interest loan programme for lobster fishermen introduced earlier this year.

Fishermen of Nova Scotia are anxiously keeping an eye over the prices of lobster as the season gets to open very soon.

There was a collective wave of frustration among fish harvesters in 3Ps when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced that there would be no increase in groundfish quotas in 2008.

Canada has introduced new equipment which rapidly mark al hatchery reared trout and salmon stocked into Lake Ontario.