New fishery closures key to feds’ 2017 marine protection goal

Fish harvesters and the opposition Conservatives are nervous about the fast pace at which the government is planning to preserve ocean territory.

Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc is leading the government's plans to dramatically increase the size and number of protected marine ecosystems in Canadian waters.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

November 23, 2016

The federal government will lean on new fishery closures to meet its goal of protecting five per cent of Canada’s marine territory by 2017, an ambitious plan that has the opposition Conservatives and some people in the fishing industry nervous about possible restrict...

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