The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is cutting haddock fishing quotas in areas off southwestern Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick and the Gulf of Maine by more than half, shocking some in the industry.
Some people in the industry share how it will impact business
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The value of haddock landed in Nova Scotia is in the millions of dollars. (Chris Furlong/Getty Images)
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is cutting haddock fishing quotas in areas off southwestern Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick and the Gulf of Maine by more than half, shocking some in the industry.
Effective April 1, the quota is going from 7,128 tonnes to 3,069 tonnes, which represents a 57 per cent decrease.
Vanessa Bourgeois, the director of fisheries management and science with the Atlantic Groundfish Council, an organization that represents groundfish harvesters, said this is “a difficult result to grapple with.”
In 2022, the value of haddock landed was more than $14 million, according to the federal government. This figure only includes harvesting, not processing.
“I have had people calling me saying, ‘Vanessa, this is going to be extremely devastating to my business,'” she said.
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