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Ray Johnson of the citizens group Community Linkages and Fred Winsor of the grass roots organization Sierra Club of Canada, today called upon the United Nations General Assembly and the Food and Agriculture Organization to request that Canada adhere to the precautionary approach, the protection and rebuilding of ocean biodiversity, and sustainable fisheries [Continue...] 
The recent news of east coast cod stocks slowly rebuilding failed to acknowledge a major contributing factor to recovery of groundfish on the eastern Scotian Shelf. Commencing in 1987 after many protests from fishers and fishing communities and the collapse of haddock stocks in that area, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed an offshore zone south and east of Halifax to all bottom trawling. [Continue...] It’s time to celebrate some good news — the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Grand Bank yellowtail flounder trawl fishery and the simultaneous [Continue...] |
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