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Nova Scotia fisheries minister challenges Canada over handling of elver fishery

'The only foreseeable outcome from this proposed closure is financial hardship inflicted upon our law-abiding license-holders' -- Kent Smith, Nova Scotia fisheries minister

By Undercurrent News | March 7, 2024 16:29 GMT
Elvers or juvenile eels are in high demand in China. Photo from Canadian Committee for a Sustainable Elver Fishery
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Kent Smith, the fisheries minister for Nova Scotia, has expressed what he describes as "extreme disappointment" in Canada's management of his province's elver fishery in a letter to federal fisheries minister Diane Lebouthillier, reports SaltWire Networks.  [...]

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