The Fisheries Department says it’s monitoring and patrolling ocean waters off northwest Vancouver Island to ensure boat traffic doesn’t interfere…
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The top enforcement officer for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in the Maritimes says arrests and seizures are…
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Federal fisheries officers patrolling for unauthorized elver fishing arrested five people from Maine last weekend in southwest Nova Scotia, adding…
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Two Mi’kmaw elver fishermen say they were forced to walk in sock feet for hours along a rural Nova Scotia…
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Nova Scotia RCMP have charged a Parrsboro man with multiple criminal counts after a night time altercation with fishery officers…
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“You all appear so calm and we all appear so frustrated,” MP Ken Hardie told Canada’s top DFO brass on…
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An estimated three times the quota of juvenile American eels (elvers) was caught on Atlantic Canadian rivers and flown out…
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A former senior Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) official says clarity on Indigenous fishing rights in the Maritimes is needed from the…
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As both the commercial and Treaty Right Protected lobster fisheries prepare to open in Southwest Nova, four First Nations have…
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The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans contends that the Fisheries Act is being enforced on St. Marys Bay. In…
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