Federal Minister Urged to Restrict Fishing Licenses in B.C. to Active Fishers
A fishing-industry leader is calling on the new federal minister responsible for Fisheries and Oceans to require all owners of fishing licenses in B.C. to be active fishers, to combat the increasingly corporate control of the province's fish stocks.
Sonia Strobel, CEO and co-founder of Skipper Otto, a Vancouver-based enterprise that connects small-scale fishers with customers, said the "modern feudal system" needs to be changed.
The Atlantic provinces have had owner-operator licensing restrictions for years to protect fishing communities...
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