Snow Crab Meeting Erupts in Anger over DFO Threat to Close Fishery if Whales Encountered
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC NEWS] by Gabrielle Fahmy, Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon - March 1, 2018
Fishermen erupted in anger Wednesday when federal officials proposed banning snow crab fishing in a large zone off the coast of New Brunswick for the entire time endangered whales are there.
The proposal came at a meeting that industry and government officials hold every year to discuss the coming snow crab season in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.
This year's season is of particular importance after ...
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