Times & Tails

The Shediac Lobster Festival, which began as a humble lobster boil in 1949, has reached new heights in its 75th year. Festival president Pascal Haché shared that planning for this landmark celebration began two and a half years ago.

A team of whale rescuers had a great day on Wednesday when they freed a young whale that was caught in fishing gear in the St. Lawrence Estuary. The whale, believed to be a calf of a 35-year-old female named War, was first observed on June 22 off of New Brunswick with fishing gear entangled in her mouth, flippers, and back.

Rescue teams are gearing up for another attempt to free a young North Atlantic right whale entangled in the St. Lawrence Estuary, aiming to save one of the last few hundred of its species.

Fish harvesters and the Fish, Food, and Allied Workers Union (FFAW) in Newfoundland and Labrador are urging the Canadian government to honor a longstanding cod quota agreement dating back to 1982.

Non-tended, fixed-gear lobster and Snow Crab fisheries in Atlantic Canada pose a considerable threat to North Atlantic Right Whales migrating through the area to feed, mainly between April and October.

A young North Atlantic right whale calf has been sighted entangled in fishing gear in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

The federal government has announced a plan to ban open-net salmon farms in British Columbia by 2029, renewing 63 fish-farm licenses for another five years before the ban takes effect. This move aims to protect Pacific salmon and address environmental concerns linked to open-net farming.

The Lax Kw'alaams Band, representing members of the nine Allied Tsimshian Tribes, is currently in court challenging the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) over proposed fishing restrictions in the Northern Shelf Bioregion.

Federal officials are considering reallocating a significant portion of the lucrative and contentious Maritime baby eel fishery to First Nations, reducing the quotas of long-standing commercial licence holders.