Fishers raised questions about how federal enforcement officers will cope if a proposal to increase the number of people licensed to net baby eels in the Maritimes goes ahead.
Maritimers who make their living fishing baby eels – known as elvers – are outraged with a new federal plan they claim will jeopardize the entire industry. Letters obtained by Global News indicate Ottawa plans to “slash quotas” for license holders by up to 90 per cent. As Heidi Petracek reports, harvesters warn it could ruin the industry.
The Fisheries Department is proposing to redistribute about 28 per cent of the allowable catch of 9,960 kilograms from nine commercial licence holders — creating about 150 new commercial licence holders — and providing half of the total catch to First Nations fishers. Chris Ferguson, an enforcement officer with DFO, told the meeting that he couldn’t say how the project would affect enforcement as it wasn’t yet clear how many people would be taking part in the fishery.
Ferguson said 169 arrests were made on the rivers this year, but it is not clear how many of those will proceed to prosecutions.
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