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Canada paying salmon harvesters to retire their licenses to save stocks

But harvesters say that the program is playing with their lives due to its vagueness, among other issues

By Undercurrent News | Sept. 26, 2022 17:01 BST
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The Canadian federal government is paying harvesters to retire their licenses to ease pressure on stressed salmon stocks in the province of British Columbia, but the program has kinks, CBC News reports.  [...]

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