Current review of Canada’s Fisheries Act provides rare opportunity to set Canada on path to restore abundance

As the federal government considers reforms to Canada’s Fisheries Act and its mandate to incorporate modern safeguards, this is the significant decision that must be made. Let’s choose abundance.
Canada's federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc, pictured on the Hill. The current review of Canada’s Fisheries Act provides a rare opportunity to set Canada on a path to restore abundance in our oceans by fulfilling the legal duty to rebuild depleted stocks.
Often, the significance of a decision made by the federal government will quickly become clear: responding to a crisis, a natural disaster or a major world event. Other times, the consequences are less immediate and less obvious, though no less important. This is the situation that Canada finds itse...

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