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November 21, 2023 05:00 ET | Source: Oceana Canada

Dernière heure : Oceana Canada sonne l’alarme avec son septième Audit des pêches, soulignant les difficultés du gouvernement à rétablir les pêches sauvages

Une mauvaise gestion généralisée et la surpêche du capelan et du hareng, autorisée par le gouvernement, menacent la durabilité économique et environnementale. VANCOUVER, territoire traditionnel non...
November 21, 2023 05:00 ET | Source: Oceana Canada

Breaking: Oceana Canada Sounds Alarm with Seventh Fishery Audit, Highlights Government’s Ongoing Struggle to Revitalize Wild Fisheries

Widespread mismanagement and government-sanctioned overfishing of capelin and herring threaten economic and ecological sustainability VANCOUVER, unceded and traditional homelands of the Musqueam...
June 25, 2019 14:03 ET | Source: Oceana Canada

Government caves to industry pressure to overfish northern cod

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) released its annual quota for critically depleted northern cod, allowing a catch level of up to...
March 12, 2019 13:03 ET | Source: Oceana Canada

Government goes against its own policy, fails to support the recovery of another cod stock

TORONTO, March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yesterday, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announced that they will close the directed Atlantic cod fishery on the Scotian Shelf/Bay of Fundy but will...