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Canada cancels plan to add more licenses, divvy up elver quota

'It's one of the rare circumstances when the minister and DFO have listened to feedback, considered it and considered the sage advice of the most knowledgeable people in the industry, which are the people that founded it'-- Stanley King, spokesperson for Canadian Committee for a Sustainable Eel Fishery

By Barb Dean-Simmons | Jan. 23, 2025 19:56 GMT
Elvers or juvenile eels are in high demand in China. Photo from Canadian Committee for a Sustainable Elver Fishery
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Canada's minister of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is canceling a pilot project that would have taken quotas from established commercially licensed elver operations in Atlantic Canada. This would have allowed up to 150 more people to access the fishery. [...]

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