Lobster license stacking starting next spring in PEI will reduce traps in the water
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] July 24, 2014
A new plan to allow P.E.I. fishermen to hold more than one lobster licence will reduce the number of traps in the water.
Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea made the announcement in a news release overnight Wednesday.
The new rules will allow Island fishermen on the North Shore and in the southeast to buy another lobster fishermen's licence out. The one boat would be allowed to fish two licences, which is known as stacking. Some of the traps from the second licence, up to 50 per cent the news release said, would have to be retired...
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