Fisheries Minister Sterling Belliveau remembers the cod moratorium all too well.
That’s why he went up to Ottawa on Tuesday night to urge the federal government to allow lobster harvesters to catch underdeveloped species.
“Several Nova Scotia fishermen have applied to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to fish stone crab and other undeveloped species and been denied due to a lack of scientific information or old data,” Belliveau said in a presentation to the Senate standing committee on fisheries and oceans. “Well, let’s get some.”
Belliveau said the province is willing to partner with DFO and pay its share to help support the scientific research necessary to develop two exploratory species.
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