First Nations Get First Snow Crab Quota Allocation in 14 Years With Gulf Quota Doubled
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC News] by Paul Withers - April 25, 2017
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it is in the process of telling First Nations which communities will get a piece of the 1,100 tonnes of snow crab from the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence that will be given to First Nations in 2017.
This is the first time in 14 years that a Canadian government has taken fish quota from a commercial fishery and awarded it to First Nations.
The last allocation was forced on the federal government by the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada...
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