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Nova Scotia

Court won’t overturn decision to cut quota from N.S., N.B. elver licence holders

In a recent ruling by three judges, commercial groups fishing for juvenile eels in the Maritimes faced another setback as…

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Politics

Quebec demands federal quota system to relocate asylum seekers to other provinces

Quebec is calling on Ottawa to introduce a nationwide quota system to evenly distribute asylum seekers across Canada.  In a…

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Nova Scotia

Industry, environmental group at odds over multi-year herring quota reduction

The Herring Science Council is pushing back against a reduced quota in the Bay of Fundy and off southwest Nova…

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Nova Scotia

Herring quota in southwestern Nova Scotia, Bay of Fundy reduced again

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has again lowered the Atlantic herring quota in southwestern Nova Scotia and the Bay…

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Nova Scotia

Mi’kmaw fisheries manager, environmentalist appointed to international tuna quota agency

Canada has appointed a veteran Mi’kmaw fisheries manager to the international agency that sets quotas for commercial species of tuna…

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Sports

Survivor of Humboldt Broncos bus crash earns Paralympic quota spot for Canada in rowing

Paralympics Summer Rowing A survivor of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has earned a Paralympic quota spot for Canada in rowing.…

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Nova Scotia

Canadian scallop quota valued at $200M sells to 3 Nova Scotia companies

In a blockbuster seafood deal, St. John’s-based Ocean Choice International (OCI) has sold its Canadian offshore scallop quota — worth…

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Nova Scotia

Clearwater Seafoods loses redfish quota as other Indigenous harvesters gain

Indigenous-owned Clearwater Seafoods is on the losing side of the redfish quota cut handed to the Atlantic Canadian offshore fleet by…

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Sports

U.S. beach volleyball duo Cheng, Hughes win world title, clinch Olympic quota spot

Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes of the United States won gold at the beach volleyball world championships with a straight-sets…

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Nova Scotia

Court upholds DFO transfer of commercial elver quota to Maritime First Nations

Commercial licence holders in the lucrative Maritime baby eel or elver fishery have lost their legal bid to overturn a federal government…

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