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Canadian Council: Time for Quotas

A report on Atlantic Canada’s lobster fishery issued in July by the Canadian Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) says that a new management plan is needed to prevent the collapse of the fishery. Reaction among fishermen in the Maritimes has been that it’s all well and good for the FRCC to make recommendations, but who’s

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Overlapping territories

The dispute between Canadian and American lobster fishermen over what is known as the “Gray Zone” (or the “Grey Zone,” depending on who’s talking) is back in the news this summer. How hot the dispute will get also depends on who’s talking. “It’s likely to get ugly,” says Greg Peacock, director of federal-provincial relations for

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BERNADINE

On June 13, Capt. Charles Creaser departed Head Harbour, Campobello Island, New Brunswick, by way of Eastport, Maine, aboard the sardine carrier Bernadine. She was bound down the Atlantic coast to the mouth of the Hudson River and up the Hudson to the Great Lakes, eventually returning to her home port. The vessel was built

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BLUENOSE – what’s in a name?

An organization called Queen of the North Atlantic Enterprises (QNAE) has commissioned the Snyder Shipyard of Dayspring, Nova Scotia, to build a replica of the famed Grand Banks schooner Bluenose. Whether or not the vessel will carry the Bluenose name is currently a matter of dispute — between QNAE and the Government of Nova Scotia.

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