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 Welcome to fishingnet.ca - Canadian Commercial Fishing Online Resource Center
fishingnet.ca is a web portal focused on providing information to all sectors of Canada's commercial fisheries and related industries from coast to coast.
 Canada has the longest coastline in the world and nearly 7 million Canadians live in coastal areas, where many people in smaller communities depend on the oceans' resources and tourism to make a living. It is for those people, communities, and industries that fishingnet.ca is focused to help promote and bring together.
 fishingnet.ca is about, by, and for Canada's commercial fishery. If you are involved in aquaculture, processing, inshore/offshore fisheries, gear/supplies, boat building, regulatory/government, seafood, industry associations, or any industry or group with ties to commercial fishing then this site is for you. The site is provided free to all readers and is supported through our sponsors and advertising.
With feedback of our readers we plan to make this a crucial part of the industry and help move it forward in this new century. Let us know what you think, the more feedback we get the better we can make this a valuable resource for all involved. |
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Province provides loan to N.S. aquaculture company to help it expand into new markets
A state-of-the-art, aquaculture company in Centre Burlington, near Windsor, N.S...
Research uncovers birthing grounds for porbeagle sharks
The birthing grounds of most of the world's large sharks are unknown...
Southwestern Nova Scotia firm has plans for job growth
The Nova Scotia government is helping a Yarmouth County seafood company that's using technology and innovation to take recycling to another level.
Tusket-based JHS FishProducts Ltd...
Mulluscan Shellfish Harvesting Closure: Notre Dame Bay
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) advises the public of revisions to the
areas closed to the harvesting of molluscan shellfish, including scallops,
mussels and clams for recreational or commercial purposes, based on
bacteriological testing by Environment Canada in the following area of
Notre Dame Bay (effective immediately):
Those waters of Pilley's Island Harbour that are inside, or north, of a
line drawn from reference coordinate 592204 5482663 northeast to reference
592597 5483114 (NAD 83, Zone 21).
Molluscan shellfish in these areas may be contaminated and dangerous to
human health if consumed, as higher than acceptable levels of bacteria
were found in the water.
It is illegal to fish for molluscs or possess molluscs from this closed
area...
Smelt fishers battle poor ice, small catches
By Sherry Martell
Transcontinental Media
RIVER JOHN, N.S...
Smelt fishers battle poor ice, small catches
By Sherry Martell
Transcontinental Media
RIVER JOHN, N.S...
?This is an intolerable incident'
The recent pie throwing assault on Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea by a member of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals cannot be tolerated says the president of the P.E.I...
MLAs want lobster fishermen to get their fair share
By Wayne Thibodeau
Transcontinental Media
Prince Edward Island MLAs want to get to the bottom of why lobster fishermen are receiving so little for what is considered a luxury food across the globe.
MLAs plan to call key players from the industry, including the P.E.I...
Going where no machine has gone before
Since the days of the early explorers, many of the world's mysteries have been revealed...
Shea takes a step forward
While the number of P.E.I...
Lobster Council of Canada getting to work
The newly formed Lobster Council of Canada has begun to formalize its operations by opening an office in downtown Halifax...
Pie in face strengthens Shea's resolve on seal hunt
By Wayne Thibodeau
Transcontinental Media
The Guardian
Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says her resolve to defend Canada's seal hunt is only strengthened after an American protester pushed a tofu pie in her face during an announcement in Ontario Monday.
Shea, a P.E.I...
Fighting the FFAW
By Aaron Beswick
FOR THE SOU'WESTER
Transcontinental Media
A welder from Port aux Basques, a retired RNC officer, a former plant processing plant owner, a fisherman and a retired medical doctor are trying to overthrow the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union (FFAW).
Stuart Pearce has been meeting with fishermen since he began trekking around the province in November to build support for the Coalition of Fish Harvesters.
?Basically I'm going around the province talking to fishermen, hearing their anger and frustration with the union and collecting signatures,? said Pearce in mid-January...
PCFA committee to open retirement offers Monday
O'LEARY ? The Prince County Fishermen's Association's lobster rationalization committee were waiting until Jan...
Belliveau again cleared of conflict of interest
By Amy Woolvett
FOR THE SOU'WESTER
Transcontinental Media
Despite the issue being raised several times over the last six months by opposition parties, Nova Scotia's Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sterling Belliveau has again been cleared in conflict of interest allegations.
At the end of December Liberal MLA Leo Glavine Kings West, wrote to Justice Merlin Nunn in connection with Belliveau's position as fisheries minister and President/Director of Mr...
Fishermen's association wants to retire more lobster licences
By Eric McCarthy
FOR THE SOU'WESTER
NovaNewsNow.com
O'LEARY, P.E.I...
Storm-tossed lobsters not free for the taking, says DFO
By Eric McCarthy
FOR THE SOU'WESTER
Transcontinental Media/Journal Pioneer
There's only one way to catch lobsters in Atlantic Canada, and that's ?from a lobster trap on a fishing vessel, and in open season,? according to Bobby McInnis, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' area chief of Conservation and Protection.
McInnis said earlier this month fisheries officers on patrol in the Kildare to Tignish, P.E.I...
Fisheries minister visiting China
Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, began a two-day visit to China on Monday, Jan...
Fishy legislation: Small boat fisherman want to sell their own cod
By Aaron Beswick
FOR THE SOU'WESTER
Transcontinental Media
A decades-old regulation forbids Dean Patey from salting his own fish to sell and the St...
Quota dispute dismissed by appeal court
By Terry Roberts
Transcontinental Media
Three Northern Peninsula crab fishermen have lost their court case arguing crab quota cuts by DFO broke an agreement they had reached with then federal Fisheries minister Brian Tobin.
In a split decision the province's Court of Appeal dismissed an action taken by 26 full-time crab fishermen against the federal government related to a long-running battle over quotas.
The fishermen have full-time crab licences for area 3K, off Newfoundland and Labrador's northeast coast...
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