The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, will be available to comment on recent deaths of North Atlantic Right Whales.
On August 1, 2017, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, will share details about the Government of Canada’s plan to improve the small craft harbours in South-East New Brunswick.
Western Shore, NOVA SCOTIA – On July 25th 2017, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard will deliver the keynote address at the annual Canadian Independent Fish Harvesters’ Federation meeting.
ST. ANDREWS, NEW BRUNSWICK -- The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard will be at the St. Andrews Biological Station to announce strategic investments for the facility.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) will be holding a briefing for media interested in an update on the marine and freshwater environments that B.C. salmon are encountering this summer. Information on management of in-season salmon fisheries, in particular the Fraser River, will be included in this briefing.
The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and the Honourable Pauline Frost, Yukon Minister of Environment are the co-chairs of the 2017 Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers' meeting taking place on June 26–27 in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Whitehorse, Yukon – The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, will be co-chairing the Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers' meeting with the Honourable Pauline Frost, Yukon Minister of Environment. Minister LeBlanc is looking forward to productive discussions with his provincial and territorial counterparts on a broad range of common priorities including ways they can work together to advance their goals of economic growth and to strengthen global market access for Canadian fish and seafood products.
Moncton, New Brunswick – Representatives of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and their partners will provide a technical briefing to media regarding an update on the recent deaths of North Atlantic Right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Ottawa, Ontario -- Representatives from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada will provide a technical briefing to media on the proposed amendments to Canada’s Oceans Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act as tabled in the House of Commons earlier today.
West Vancouver, BC – Terry Beech, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, together with Member of Parliament Pamela Goldsmith-Jones will welcome the public to an open house at the Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research (CAER) and provide details about CAER’s future as one of two designated Science Enterprise Centres in Canada. Media availability will be provided. Please ask attendant for designated media parking as spaces are limited.