Federation Calling on Greenland to End Commercial Fishery of Atlantic Salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Canadian Press] May 28, 2015
HALIFAX — Fishermen and conservationists are urging Greenland to end its commercial fishery of wild Atlantic salmon, arguing the stock is at historic lows and won't recover if the harvest continues.
The Atlantic Salmon Federation issued new figures Wednesday showing the lowly state of the lucrative and once plentiful stock.
It says that even though the population has been steadily declining over the last several years, Greenland has maintained its factory fishery of salmon that migrate north from river systems in Canada, the United States and elsewhere.
The federation says data from the ...
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