Canada Announces 2023 Fishery, Vessel Management Measures to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales
Ahead of the upcoming snow crab season, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has announced the 2023 fishery and vessel management measures that are in place to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whales.
Measures by the DFO include adaptive closure protocols to prevent entanglements, like seasonal and dynamic area closures for non-tended fixed gear, trap and pot fisheries in areas when right whales are visually or acoustically detected. This is nothing new as the DFO has been using hydrophones for...
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