| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Fishery officers require state-of-the-art aerial surveillance equipment to continue the important work they conduct protecting Canada’s marine resources, ensuring compliance with fisheries management measures and enforcing the Fisheries Act from coast to coast to coast.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | media advisories
Vancouver, B.C. – Fisheries and Oceans Canada will provide an update regarding the Pacific Herring Integrated Fisheries Management Plan for 2020-2021. These updates come following a 30-day public consultation period on the draft 2020-21 IFMP which was released on December 21, 2020.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | media advisories
Representatives from Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and Transport Canada will announce the 2021 measures to help protect North Atlantic right whales from interactions with fishing gear and vessels in Canadian waters.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Whales are as vulnerable as they are majestic. As a Government we are committed to protecting them with methods that are sustainable and grounded in the best-available research and technology.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
An effective Blue Economy Strategy is one in which Canadians from coast to coast to coast will see themselves: ocean industries, innovators, environmental groups, indigenous and non-indigenous communities across the country. Over the past week, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard held roundtable discussions with leaders in some of these key sectors including the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, academia, and women leaders in ocean sectors to hear their suggestions on a successful blue economy strategy.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Today the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, and the Chiefs of the A-Tlegay Member Nations (We Wai Kai Nation, Wei Wai Kum First Nation, Kwiakah First Nation, Tlowitsis Nation, and K'ómoks First Nation), announced the signing of the “Reconciliation Framework Agreement for Fisheries Resources.” All five nations have a long history of marine use and stewardship in the northern Gulf of Georgia and the Johnstone Strait region, and the Framework Agreement commits the Parties to work together based on recognition of rights, respect, cooperation and partnership.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
With the world’s longest coastline and connected to three oceans, Canada is well positioned to be a global leader in the blue economy – an economy that creates good, middle-class jobs, while ensuring healthy oceans and sustainable ocean industries.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Québec, Quebec – Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announced today that the groundfish ice fishing season on the Saguenay Fjord has been extended by one week. It now ends on March 14, 2021.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Canada’s fisheries are the backbone of many coastal communities and a driving force in our national economy. At the same time, the seafood sector is a rapidly shifting environment – competition is intensifying and consumers are looking for sustainability and quality. That is why the Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia are making strategic investments in the fish and seafood sector through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund – to help ensure the sector can continue to meet these changing demands and to capitalize on the industry’s tremendous growth potential.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | backgrounders
Canada’s fisheries are the backbone of many coastal communities and a driving force in our national economy. At the same time, the seafood sector is a rapidly shifting environment – competition is intensifying and consumers are looking for sustainability and quality.
