The amount of pink shrimp that can be commercially caught in Area 6 of Newfoundland and Labrador has reached the lowest level in history, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has warned.
According to a new assessment, there were only 104,000 metric tons (MT) of fishable shrimp in the area in 2016, which means that the resource is in a "critical" state.
That volume has been decreasing year after year – falling 25 percent from 2015, and a peak of 785,000 MT in 2006.
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