The recently elected government of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is reconsidering the previous government’s plans to increase the Arctic surf clam quota for 2016, and allow new firms to enter the fishery.
In July, months before the October defeat of previous prime minister Stephen Harper, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) said science supported the expansion of the country's offshore Atlantic surf clam fishery, with a potential increase to the total allowable catch (TAC) from 2015’s 38,756 metric tons to 52,655t, plus bycatch, in 2016.
However, the quota increase and the new entrants to the fishery are now on hold, pending a science-based review of the possible environment impacts, DFO said in a Dec. 18 press release. For 2016, at least, the TAC will stay at 52,655t [...]
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