(Source: CBC News | Posted: Mar 20, 2024 6:00 AM ADT)
Legal elver fishers are the only ones being penalized by the federal government’s decision to shut down the Maritime fishery, the standing committee on fisheries and oceans heard on Tuesday in Ottawa.
The meeting was about plans to prevent violence during the 2024 elver fishing season.
The committee heard from the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the RCMP, the Canadian Committee for a Sustainable Eel Fishery, and a legal elver fisherman with Shelburne Elver.
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